[NEohioPAL] Calling Actors for The Manhattan Project - Cleveland Lab

[Peter J. Roth]

Dear Actor Friends,

Please join us for the first test of The Manhattan Project - Cleveland Lab.

What exactly is The Manhattan Project - Cleveland Lab?

Between 1942 and 1945, J. Robert Oppenheimer gathered the most brilliant
minds of the age at Los Alamos, New Mexico to create something magnificent
and terrifying.
The Manhattan Project - Cleveland Lab seeks to do the same for the
Cleveland stage.

Based on the Theatre Lab model taught at the Carnegie Mellon School of
Drama and inspired by The Brooklyn Generator in New York,
The Manhattan Project wants to introduce Cleveland actors and playwrights
to each other by organizing a monthly production of brand new 10-minute
plays.

Participating artists will meet early in the month and will be broken into
teams, each with one playwright.  The playwright will then be given a
writing prompt to write a new 10-minute play based on the prompt and
including all the team's actors.  The rest of the evening the team members
will get to know each other and get a feel for each other's skills and
voices.

The teams will reconvene later in the month to perform these plays for each
other.

These 10-minute plays are not an end in themselves.  Through these small
collaborations we hope to build relationships between the two most
vulnerable artists in theatre; the actors who put themselves on stage and
the playwrights who pour themselves onto the page.  Perhaps these 10-minute
plays will grow into longer works or maybe these collaborations will become
partnerships on larger projects.

To quote a friend, it's "a low stakes, low pressure place to suck out loud."

*The First Meet & Greet* will be 8:00pm April; 9 at
Mahall's<http://mahalls20lanes.com/>
 at 13224 Madison Ave in
Lakewood<https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&safe=strict&q=13224+Madison+Avenue,+Lakewood,+OH&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x8830f21d2d65b28f:0x42052cc6bb5456d7,13224+Madison+Ave,+Lakewood,+OH+44107&gl=us&ei=Y7RRUefdNLOC0QHG8YDwBA&ved=0CDAQ8gEwAA>
.
*The First Performance *will be 8:00pm April 29, also at Mahall's.

If you'd like to participate, please RSVP at TrinityCrater at gmail.com.  And
please, forward this to friends who might be interested.

Thanks!,
Peter



Some additional notes on the project:

   - In the spirit of shoe-string theatre, these 10-minute plays should
   have a budget of $0.00.
   - Playwrights will be directing the plays, or an actor from the team can
   volunteer to do so.
   - It's up to each team to schedule rehearsals together.  Based on
   experience, it shouldn't take more than 3-4 hours of rehearsal time to get
   these plays on their feet.
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