<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br><br>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. </span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px">The <span>Manhattan</span> <span>Project</span> - Cleveland Lab seeks to do the same for the Cleveland stage.</span></div><br>At <b>8:00pm</b> on<b> May 6</b> at <b>Mahall's in Lakewood</b>
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.<br>
<br>The Manhattan Project is a low-stakes, nonthreatening place for actors and playwrights to meet and work together.<br><br><div><font size="4"><br>What <span>exactly</span> is The Manhattan Project - Cleveland Lab?</font></div>
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</span></div><div style="font-size:13px"><span>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. </span></div>
<div style="font-size:13px"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-size:13px"><span>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. </span></div>
<div style="font-size:13px"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-size:13px"><span>The teams will reconvene later in the month to perform these plays for each other.</span></div>
<div style="font-size:13px"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-size:13px"><span>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.<br><br>For more information, please contact <a href="mailto:TrinityCrater@gmail.com">TrinityCrater@gmail.com</a><br></span></div>