<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:'arial black',sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px;background-color:rgb(235,235,235)">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.</span><br></font></div><div><span style="font-family:'arial black',sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px;background-color:rgb(235,235,235)"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><h1 style="font-family:Helvetica;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:40px;line-height:50px;letter-spacing:-1px"><span style="font-size:30px"><font color="#000000">The Manhattan Project Turned Two!</font></span></h1><h3 style="font-family:Helvetica;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:22.4999980926514px;letter-spacing:-0.5px"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px">For two years </span><a href="http://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=f188e6239a&e=137ba2e111" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal" target="_blank">The Manhattan Project</a><span style="font-family:helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px"> has brought together local playwrights and actors to create brand new ten-minute plays.  To honor Manhattan Project's Terrible Twos, our playwrights were asked to write us some terrible plays!</span></font></h3><ul style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px"><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000"><b>Katie Walker</b>'s campy, formulaic and ridiculous "<i>Hiking, With Issues and Trouble</i>"</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000"><b>David Todd</b>'s play about singing and dancing cops, "<i>Mock Up</i>"</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000"><b>Catie O'Keefe</b>'s "<i>The Room Down the Hall</i>" is one of those deep ones, if you know what we mean.</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000"><b>Claire Robinson May</b>'s "<i>BART and ARNIE</i>" are awfully familiar.</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000"><b>Rachel Baird Rudisill</b>'s "<i>Ars Dramatica or A Work of Great Import</i>" is everything it promises.</font></li></ul><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;line-height:22.5px;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,'helvetica neue',helvetica,sans-serif">Please join us <a href="http://facebook.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=d145ce93cf&e=137ba2e111" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal;word-wrap:break-word" target="_blank"><span><span>TONIGHT, May 26 at 8:30pm</span></span></a> at <a href="http://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=c22eee5bcb&e=137ba2e111" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal;word-wrap:break-word" target="_blank">Mahall's 20 Lanes</a> <span style="line-height:17.9200000762939px">13200 Madison Ave. Lakewood, OH 44107 on the Main Stage to enjoy some exciting terrible theatre!</span></span></span><span style="font-family:'arial black',sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px;background-color:rgb(235,235,235)"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;line-height:22.5px;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,'helvetica neue',helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:17.9200000762939px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></span></span></div><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px;background-color:rgb(235,235,235)"><div style="text-align:center"><font color="#000000" 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:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px;background-color:rgb(235,235,235)"><div><font color="#000000"> </font></div><div><font color="#000000" 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 color="#000000"> </font></div><div><font color="#000000" 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 bi-monthly production of brand new 10-minute plays.  </font></div><div><font color="#000000"> </font></div><div><font color="#000000" 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 color="#000000"> </font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">The teams will reconvene later in the month to perform these plays for each other.</font></div><div><font color="#000000"> </font></div><div><font color="#000000" 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:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px;background-color:rgb(235,235,235)"><font color="#000000"> </font></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px;background-color:rgb(235,235,235)"><font color="#000000"> </font></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px;background-color:rgb(235,235,235)"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">If you'd like to participate, please RSVP at <a href="mailto:TrinityCrater@gmail.com" style="word-wrap:break-word" target="_blank">TrinityCrater@gmail.com</a> or just show up at the next <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Meet</span> & <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Greet</span> in July.</font></div></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px;background-color:rgb(235,235,235)"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;line-height:22.5px;background-color:rgb(235,235,235)"><font color="#000000"><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" size="4"><b>For more info and updates:</b></font></font></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;line-height:22.5px;background-color:rgb(235,235,235)"><font color="#000000"><font style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </font><font style="font-size:13px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" face="georgia, serif"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheManhattanProjectClevelandLab" target="_blank">like us on facebook</a></font><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">, </span><a href="http://eepurl.com/RGboj" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">Subscribe to Our Newsletter</a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> and follow us on twitter @MPCleveLab .</span><font style="font-size:15px" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></font></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px;background-color:rgb(235,235,235)"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px;background-color:rgb(235,235,235)"><div style="font-family:Helvetica;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">Some additional notes on the project:</font></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><ul style="font-family:Helvetica"><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000" 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 color="#000000" 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 color="#000000" 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 color="#000000" 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 color="#000000" 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><font face="georgia, serif"><b><br></b></font></div></div></div></div>
</div><br></div>