Poets and Playwrights Unite!The Manhattan Project is thrilled to join forces with Barnhouse literary journal! The new year starts with an awesome and terrible mashup in which Barnhouse poets will write plays and Manhattan Project playwrights will write poetry.
Manhattan Project writers will be Rachel Baird, Amy Schwabauer, and Peter J Roth.
Our Barnhouse writers will be Charlie Plue, Jason Harris, and Billy Lennon.
We need awesome actors to perform in the wonderful new 10-minute plays that our Barnhouse partners will be writing. Please join us for our Meet & Greet to participate.
Meet & Greet will be Monday, January 7 at 8:00pm at Mahall's 20 Lanes in Lakewood.
Performance will be Monday, January 28 at 8:00pm.
What exactly is The Manhattan Project - Cleveland Lab?
The Manhattan Project is a low-stakes, nonthreatening place for actors and playwrights to meet and work together.
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.
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.
The teams will reconvene later in the month to perform these plays for each other.
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.
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