Old Cambridge Shakespeare Association (Cambridge, Mass.)

The Old Cambridge Shakespeare Association (O.C.S.A) or Cambridge Shakespeare Club, as it has long been familiarly known, was founded in 1880 and formally organized two years later. It still meets to this day (2006). O.C.S.A. meetings were held fortnightly, on Tuesday evenings, from October through May. The principal business of these meetings was the dramatic reading of a Shakespeare play or other work. Plays were chosen (and abridged, if necessary) by a rotating three-member "casting committee;" parts were assigned at the meeting prior to that at which they were scheduled to be read aloud. Annual meetings were held in January, and were generally the occasion of a formal paper read by a club member on a Shakespearian topic, or more rarely, of a theatrical excursion.

From the description of Old Cambridge Shakespeare Association records, 1882-2006. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154690297