<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:13px" face="arial black, sans-serif">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.</font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br><font face="arial black, sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif"><font color="#222222">This month the Manhattan Project goes underground to Mahall's Locker Room Performance Space.<br>
<br>At <b>8:00pm </b>on<b> August 28</b></font></font></font> 5 new plays from 5 Cleveland playwrights will drop on <a href="http://mahalls20lanes.com/" 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" target="_blank">13224 Madison Ave in Lakewood</a>. Please join us!<br>
<br><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><i>Speed Date Therapy</i> by Dan Riordan</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><i>Alice Would Have Stayed </i>by Katie Wallace</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><i>A Kitchen Dream</i> by Tom Hayes</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><i>Panda Play</i> by Claire Robinson Man</li><li style="margin-left:15px">
<i>Re-Gift of the Magi</i> by Stuart Hoffman</li></ul></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div style="text-align:center">
<font face="arial black, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:large">What exactly is The </span><span style="font-size:large">Manhattan</span><span style="font-size:large"> </span><span style="font-size:large">Project - Cleveland Lab</span><span style="font-size:large">?</span></font></div>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><br></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">The Manhattan Project is a low-stakes, nonthreatening place for actors and playwrights to meet and work together.</font></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">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. </font></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">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. </font></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">The teams will reconvene later in the month to perform these plays for each other.</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif">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.</font></div>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><br></div><div><font color="#222222" face="georgia, serif">If you'd like to participate, please RSVP at <a href="mailto:TrinityCrater@gmail.com" target="_blank">TrinityCrater@gmail.com</a> or just show up at our next Meet & Greet on September 3.</font></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Some additional notes on the project:</font></div><div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="georgia, serif">In the spirit of shoe-string theatre, these 10-minute plays should have a budget of $0.00.</font></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="georgia, serif">Playwrights will be directing the plays, or an actor from the team can volunteer to do so.</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="georgia, serif">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.</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="georgia, serif">Playwrights are invited in advance of the meet & Greet. If you are interested in writing for a future Manhattan Project please e-mail <a href="mailto:TrinityCrater@gmail.com" target="_blank">TrinityCrater@gmail.com</a>with the subject line "Playwright Query".</font></li>
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