<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font 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 awesome and
terrible. The Manhattan Project - Cleveland Lab seeks to do the same
for the Cleveland stage.</font></div>
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</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,"lucida grande",tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(20,24,35);line-height:17.92px">This November </span><font color="#141823" face="Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:17.92px"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheManhattanProjectClevelandLab?ref=hl" target="_blank">The Manhattan Project</a></span></font><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,"lucida grande",tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(20,24,35);line-height:17.92px"> is cooking up something special with our favorite Cleveland playwrights Les Hunter, Arwen Mitchell, Mike Geither, Val Kozlenko, Krysia Orlowski, and Yulia Gray!</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,"lucida grande",tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;display:inline;color:rgb(20,24,35);line-height:17.92px"></span></div>
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</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="display:inline;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,"lucida grande",tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17.92px">We need a cornucopia of hungry actors who want to help serve up six brand new 10-minute plays for an explosive Thanksgiving feast!<br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="display:inline;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,"lucida grande",tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17.92px"><br>Please join us for our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/282391201957324/" target="_blank">Meet & Greet</a> at <b>8:00pm TONIGHT, October 27</b> at <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mahall%27s/@41.477089,-81.781113,17z/data=%213m1%214b1%214m2%213m1%211s0x0:0x4fb705bb49743825" target="_blank">Mahall's 20 Lanes</a> 13200 Madison Ave. Lakewood, OH 44107 on the Main Stage.</span><br>
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</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="display:inline;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,"lucida grande",tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17.92px"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1388985338028724/" target="_blank">Performance</a> will be <b>November 17</b>, also on Mahall's Main Stage.</span></div>
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<div><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><div><br></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">The Manhattan Project is a low-stakes, nonthreatening place for actors and playwrights to <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">meet</span> 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 <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">meet</span> 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><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><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"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">TrinityCrater@gmail.com</span></a> or just show up at the <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Meet</span> & <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Greet</span> on October 27.</font></div>
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<div><br></div><div><br></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 <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">meet</span> & <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Greet</span>. </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>
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