from the archives of

THE MANKATO PLAY READING GROUP

1986


August

Ten Little Indians

Agatha Christie

October

The Miller and His Men

November

The Crucible

Arthur Miller

1987


Play It Again Sam

The Good Doctor

Neil Simon

1988


The Buried Child

Sam Shepard

Three Mystery Plays

The Circle

Somerset Maugham

The Frogs

Aristophanes

1989


Arms and the Man

George Bernard Shaw

The Little Foxes

Lillian Hellman

The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams

Tiger at the Gates

Christopher Fry

1990


I Am A Camera

John Van Druten

Of Thee I Sing

George S. Kaufman

True West

Sam Shepard

Our Town

Thornton Wilder

The Doctor In Spite of Himself

Jean Baptiste Moliere

Playboy of the Western World

John Synge

1991


Joe Turner's Come and Gone

August Wilson

6 Characters in Search of an Author

Luigi Pirandello

Alice in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

September

Under Milkwood

Dylan Thomas

December

Oedipus Rex

Sophocles

1992


January

Lady Windermere's Fan

Oscar Wilde

March

The Cherry Orchard

Anton Chekhov

May

The Marriage of Figaro

Beaumarchais

September

Juno and the Paycock

Sean O'Casey

November

Countess Julie

August Strindberg

New Year's Eve

Blithe Spirit

Noel Coward

1993


May

RUR

Carl Capek

August

Because Their Hearts Were Pure

September

The Tempest

William Shakespeare

November

Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

New Year's Eve

Rosenkrantz and Guildens tern Are Dead

Tom Stoppard

1994


February

The Golden Gate

David Stefanson

May

The Rivals

Sheridan

September

Cyrano de Bergerac

Rostand

October

video of Cyrano

New Year's Eve

Short PLays of GB Shaw

1995


March

Visit to a Small Planet

Gore Vidal

September

video of Come Back Little Sheba

Inge

November

A Servant's Christmas

John Fenn

New Year's Eve

video of Victor, Victoria

1996


February

Waiting For Lefty

Clifford Odets

April

video

Somerset Maugham

October

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Brian Clark

New Year's Eve

Dancing at Lughnasa

Brian Friel

1997


May

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In The Moon Marigolds

Paul Zendel

September

3 Very Short Plays

Susan Glaspell and Wendy Wasserstein

November

The Primary English Class

Israel Horovitz

New Year's Eve

Murder by Proxy game

1998


February

Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe

May

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Shakespeare

September

The Mikado

Gilbert and Sullivan

December

The Birthday Party

Harold Pinter

New Year's Eve

video of What About Bob

1999


February

The Apple Cart

Shaw

April

The Truth Suspected

Juan Ruiz de Alarcon

September

Les Belles Soeurs

Michel Tremblay

October

The Madwoman of Chaillot

Jean Giraudoux

New Year's Eve

My Three Angels

Husson/ Spewack

2000


April

A View From the Bridge

Arthur MIller

June

A Doll's House

Ibsen

August

The Lion in Winter

James Goldman

December

Diary of Anne Frank

New Year's Eve

An Ideal Husband

Oscar Wilde

2001


March

Amphitryon 38

Jean Giraudoux

August

Painting Churches

Tina Howe

October

W;t

Margaret Edson

November

The Real Inspector Hound

Tom Stoppard

2002


May

Three Penny Opera

Brecht

August

Picasso at the Lapin Agile

Steve Martin

November

The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia

Preston Jones

2003


January

My Heart's in the HIghlands

William Saroyan

March

Lion With Corset

Carl Erik Soya

May

Murder in the Cathedral

T. S. Eliot

October

The Fantastiks

Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones

December

Dancing at Lughnasa

Brian Friel

2004


March

Julius Caesar

Shakespeare

May

Raisin in the Sun

Angela Hansberry??

July

The Oldest Living Graduate

Preston Jones

November

Little Shop of Horrors

December

Long Day's Journey Into Night

2005


February

The Lark

Jean Anouillh

May

Proof

David Auburn

July

Snow White / Cinderella

August

Field trip to the Guthrie: The Constant Wife

Somerset Maugham