<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><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><br><br>Tomorrow Night the Manhattan Project celebrates its First Birthday with a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/489814791130399/" target="_blank">Blowout Birthday Bash</a> featuring 5 new plays by Cleveland playwrights:<br>
<ul><li><i>Playdate</i> by Les Hunter</li><li><i>Blending In</i> by Katie Walker</li><li><i>I Am a Pin Cushion</i> by Mike Geither</li><li><i>The Ill-fit Dress</i> by Tom Hayes</li><li><i>The Unicorn at 3:00am</i> by Peter J Roth<br>
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<br></div>Performances begin at <b>8:00pm, April 29th </b>at <a href="http://mahalls20lanes.com/" target="_blank">Mahall's</a> at <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/preview?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&channel=fflb&ie=UTF-8&q=Mahall%27s&fb=1&gl=us&hq=mahall%27s&cid=5744066151683733541&ei=UlBVU7zpLIrg2AXa7oGICQ&ved=0CK4BEPwSMA8" target="_blank">13200 Madison Ave. Lakewood, OH 44107</a><br>
<br><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 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 <span style="background-color:rgb(243,243,243)"><a href="mailto:TrinityCrater@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">TrinityCrater@gmail.com</span></a> </span>or just show up at our next Meet & Greet in June.</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222">For more info and updates </font><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheManhattanProjectClevelandLab" target="_blank">like us on facebook.</a></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. </font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><b><font face="georgia, serif">Playwrights
are invited based on participation in past Manhattan Project events, so
please come to our events so we can get to know you!</font></b></li></ul></div></div></div><br>
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