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</font></div><span style>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 <span>Manhattan</span> <span>Project</span> - Cleveland Lab seeks to do the same for the Cleveland stage.</span></font><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="arial black, sans-serif"></font><br><font face="arial black, sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif"><font color="#222222">Next week the <span>Manhattan</span> <span>Project</span> gets scary with an extra special </font></font></font></span><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/526542474100578/" target="_blank">Halloween Performance</a></font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:13px"> including a trip through the Zombie's Lair, an Apple Bobbing Contest and Costume Contest with special APOCALYPTIC PRIZES!</span></div>
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<div><span style><font><font face="georgia, serif"><font color="#222222"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Featuring 4 chilling plays by Cleveland's </font>most horrifying <font face="arial, sans-serif">playwrights:</font></font></font></font></span></div>
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<li style="margin-left:15px"><br></li></ul></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><span style>Performances begin at <font face="arial black, sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif"><font color="#222222"><b>8:00pm, October 28th </b>at </font></font></font><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>. </span></div>
<div><span style><br></span></div><div><span style>Please join us! Join us! Gooble-gobble! Gooble-gobble! We will make you one of us! </span></div><div><br></div>
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<div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial black, sans-serif" style><span style="font-size:large">What exactly is The </span><span style="font-size:large"><span>Manhattan</span></span><span style="font-size:large"> </span><span style="font-size:large"><span>Project</span> - Cleveland Lab</span><span style="font-size:large">?</span></font></div>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><span style><br></span></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" style>The <span>Manhattan</span> <span>Project</span> is a low-stakes, nonthreatening place for actors and playwrights to meet and work together.</font></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif" style><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" style>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. </font></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif" style><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" style>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" style><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" style>The teams will reconvene later in the month to perform these plays for each other.</font></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif" style><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" style>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 <span>projects</span>.</font></div>
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</span></div><div><font color="#222222" face="georgia, serif" style>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 <b>October 7</b>.</font></div>
<div><span style><br></span></div><div><span style><br></span></div><div><div><font face="georgia, serif" style>Some additional notes on the <span>project</span>:</font></div>
<div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="georgia, serif" style>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" style>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" style>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" style>Playwrights are invited in advance of the meet & Greet. If you are interested in writing for a future <span>Manhattan</span> <span>Project</span> 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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