[NEohioPAL] 3...2...1... Manhattan Project Detonates

Peter J. Roth gibretep at gmail.com
Sun Apr 28 03:39:10 PDT 2013


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.

At *8:00pm* on* May 6* at *Mahall's in Lakewood* the Manhattan Project will
explode with six new plays by Tom Hayes, Katie Wallace, Logan Smith, Ed
Walsh, Michael Laurenty and Mike Geither.  Come see the fireworks.

The Manhattan Project is a low-stakes, nonthreatening place for actors and
playwrights to meet and work together.


What exactly is The Manhattan Project - Cleveland Lab?

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.

For more information, please contact TrinityCrater at gmail.com
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