Co-presented with The Tank, WE READ BOOKS is a short play series celebrating the untamed, uncooperative, and unapologetic aspects of adaptation. It features a handful of 10-minute, brand new plays by a host of playwrights, using an existing text as a jumping off point. The only catch? They all have to incorporate certain aspects of the source material.
We Read Books Round 4: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's THE YELLOW WALLPAPER
Short plays by Jack Calk, Johnny Lloyd, Elizagrace Madrone, Zizi Majid, and Catherine Weingarten—and an original song by Sharell Bryant.
November 4, 2019
The Tank, New York
We Read Books Round 3: Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN
Short plays by Matt Barbot, Michael Calciano, Christina Franklin, Rosalind Grush, Luis Roberto Herrera, and Kate Pressman
July 16, 2019
The Tank, New York
We Read Books Round 2: Shirley Jackson's THE LOTTERY
Short plays by Johnny Lloyd, Brysen Boyd, Rebecca LeVine, Toccara Castleman, Kev Berry, and Gina Stevensen
September 2018
The Tank, New York
Photos and graphics by Rebecca LeVine.
We Read Books Round 1: BEOWULF!
Short plays by Calley Anderson, Shelley Farmer, Ben Ferber, Johnny Lloyd Julián Mesri, and Jeana Scotti
May 2018
The Tank, New York
Photos and graphics by Rebecca LeVine
