<div><span style="font-size:large"><font>The Manhattan Project - Cleveland Lab launches tomorrow, Tuesday the 9th. Please join us. <br>RSVP at <a href="mailto:TrinityCrater@gmail.com">TrinityCrater@gmail.com</a> or just show up at Mahall's tomorrow night.</font><br>
<br>What exactly is The <span>Manhattan</span> <span>Project</span> - Cleveland Lab?</span><br><div><br></div><div>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. <div>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">The <span>Manhattan</span> <span>Project</span> - Cleveland Lab seeks to do the same for the Cleveland stage.</font></div></div><div><br></div><div>Based
on the Theatre Lab model taught at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama
and inspired by The Brooklyn Generator in New York, The <span>Manhattan</span> <span>Project</span> wants
to introduce Cleveland actors and playwrights to each other by
organizing a monthly production of brand new 10-minute plays. </div>
<div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>The teams will reconvene later in the month to perform these plays for each other.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>To quote a friend, it's "a low stakes, low pressure place to suck out loud."</div><div><br></div><div><b>The First Meet & Greet</b> will be 8:00pm <b>April 9</b> at <a href="http://mahalls20lanes.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Mahall's</a> at <a href="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" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">13224 Madison Ave in Lakewood</a>.</div>
<div><b>The First Performance </b>will be 8:00pm <b>May 6</b>, also at Mahall's.</div><div><br></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">If you'd like to participate, please RSVP at <a href="mailto:TrinityCrater@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">TrinityCrater@gmail.com</a>. And please, forward this to friends who might be interested.</font></div>
<div><br></div><div><div>Thanks!,</div><div>Peter</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Some additional notes on the <span>project</span>:</div><div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">In the spirit of shoe-string theatre, these 10-minute plays should have a budget of $0.00.</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Playwrights will be directing the plays, or an actor from the team can volunteer to do so.</li><li style="margin-left:15px">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.</li></ul></div></div></div>