The Gateway Theatre Guild has a play reading committee in which certain members of the GTG gather at one place and discuss selected plays once they've been read.  Often, they'll discuss thepossibilities of producing some of these plays. 

The committee has compiled a TOP TEN list of plays that are most desirable to be potentially produced.

Playreading Committee Top Ten List

The following plays are recommended to prospective directors as excellent choices for our membership and audiences. They are not listed in any particular order. If any Gateway Theatre Guild member wishes to read one or more of these scripts, please contact Rick Blair at rwb@personainternet.com to arrange for pick up.

Rabbit Hole  by David Lindsay-Abaire. 

2m, 3f  Comedy/drama

Becca and Howie Corbett have everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart. Rabbit Hole charts their bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places and for a path that will lead them back into the light of day. Winner of 2006 Pulitzer  prize.

Doubt by John Patrick Shanley.

1m, 3f drama

Sister Aloysius, a Bronx school principal, takes matters into her own hands when she suspects the young Father Flynn of improper relations with one of the male students.  Winner of 2005 Pulitzer and Tony Awards.

Abundance  by Beth Henley.

3m, 2f drama

A Western epic complete with mountainous scenic vistas, two-fisted brawls, lust in the dust, rampaging Indians and a 25-year narrative that finally deposits its characters in a newly tamed America hurtling by train into the 20th century. Two mail order brides meet on the prairie and develop a 25 year relationship with many ups and downs.

Half Life   by  John Mighton.

4m, 4 f drama

Two nursing home residents, both in their 80s, meet and fall in love, rekindling what might have been a wartime romance. Had they previously met somewhere else under different circumstances? Why is their love so troubling for their children? Indeed, the light at dusk is sometimes warmer and more enveloping that that of the midday sun. Characters navigate between being and appearance, between cowardice and dissoluteness.

Marion Bridge  by Daniel MacIvor.

1m, 3 f drama

Three women in their thirties come "home" to Cape Breton to be with their dying mother. Each in her own way tries to deal with the painful loneliness of their lives - each is trying to reconcile what they have become with what they thought they wanted out of life and with what they thought their parents wanted for them. Nothing, of course, has turned out exactly the way anyone imagined it would.

Wonder of the World David Lindsay-Abaire.

3m, 4f comedy

Cass finds something so shocking in her husband’s sweater drawer that she has no choice but to flee to the honeymoon capital of the world in a frantic search for the life she thinks she missed out on. It's a wild ride over Niagara Falls as Cass embarks on a journey of self-discovery that has her crossing paths with a blithely suicidal alcoholic, a lonely tour-boat captain, a pair of bickering private detectives and a strange caper involving a gargantuan jar of peanut butter, all of which pushes her perilously close to the water's edge.

Communicating Doors by Alan Ayckbourn.

3m, 3f comedy thriller

A man reveals confession of wrongdoing including murder to a prostitute in the future; murderer tries to kill her too and she escapes into the past where she tries to change outcome of two murders.

Wrong Turn at Lungfish  by Gary Marshall.

2m, 2f comedy

A man in his 60’s is recently blinded as a result of an illness that is killing him. A streetwise woman agrees to read to him against his will. Eventually she befriends him  which upsets her boyfriend who just wanted her to scam money from the old guy. She is obviously an abused woman and the old man tries to get her to leave her boyfriend. Theme is re-birth and redemption as old man tries to deal with his upcoming death and woman eventually sees her own value.

Where’s My Money?  By John Patrick Shanley.

3m, 3 f comedy

When Celeste, an out-of-work actor who's cheating on her boyfriend with a married man, runs into Natalie, whom she hasn't seen in years, the two have some catching up to do. Natalie, an accountant married to a lawyer, gives the impression of being very together and does not approve of Celeste's lifestyle. But Natalie's life is not nearly as together as it appears. In fact, her marriage with Henry is hanging by a thread, and she's being visited by the ghost of an ex-boyfriend who claims she owes him money. Meanwhile, it turns out that the married man Celeste is having an affair with is Henry's idol, Sidney, a divorce lawyer with a pet theory that one partner in every marriage will be unfaithful, so it might as well be you.

Some Assembly Required by Eugene Strickland

3 m, 2 f comedy

O Xmas Tree, O Xmas Tree, garnished with barbed wire by a Dad who deploys this particular stock in trade of his to try to keep his family together. Said family includes a mother suffering from a mysterious ailment that only seems to strike around Xmas time, one son who seems to be the only hope for a copasetic successor to dear Old Dad (and who is therefore exceedingly reluctant to assume the mantle) and another son who has taken refuge in the family basement after a break-up (dug in like an unwelcome raccoon) and whose contribution to the seasonal spirit is to blend eggnog with a cordless drill. Oh, and a daughter with “issues” of her own. O! The Humanity!