Re: RAT come to PlayLabs

[vz <dexteriously@yahoo.com>]

What an excellent program--I hope you can post some sort of report
later on about which AD/LDs you brought in and how it all went. 
Thanks!


--- Megan Monaghan <meganmonaghan@email.msn.com> wrote:
> Greetings, RATs --
> 
> I have the opportunity to offer round-trip plane tickets to four or
> five
> artistic
> directors or literary managers of small theater companies, who are
> looking
> for new plays and playwrights.  The occasion is PlayLabs, the
> Playwrights'
> Center's national play development festival.  Every year PlayLabs
> brings
> several of the nation's most interesting dramatists (this year, Fiona
> Templeton (NYC), Carson Grace Becker (Chicago) and Victor Lodato
> (Tucson))
> to the Twin Cities for two weeks of intensive playwright-guided work
> on
> their new pieces.  At the end, we open the doors and invite an
> audience in
> to see where the plays are in their development.
> 
> This chance to bring in out-of-town artistic directors/literary
> managers
> works thusly:
> 
> You send me an email at meganmonaghan@msn.com, telling me briefly
> about your
> company and why you're looking for new plays/writers at this time.  I
> need
> to receive these emails by Monday, July 17.  We're looking for
> aesthetic and
> geographic diversity, and a serious desire to connect with new plays
> and
> playwrights *now*.
> 
> I choose four or five people and notify them.  We buy your plane
> ticket; you
> handle your housing, food and in-town transportation by hook or by
> crook.
> 
> We bring you in on Thursday, August 3.  Thursday night you
> participate in a
> panel at The Playwrights' Center, where you'll discuss your
> companies, what
> you are and are not looking for in new plays/writers, and your
> submission
> processes.  There will be an opportunity to pick up cover letters,
> synopses
> and dialogue samples from Center writers at that time.
> 
> On August 4 and 5, you attend the public presentations of the three
> PlayLabs
> plays as our guests.  The plays are:
> 
> -- Carson Grace Becker, "The Erotic Life of Property," recently given
> a
> reading by Moving Arts in L.A.  The oldest profession meets the
> newest
> technology, and the tangle is enriched by two young people preparing
> to take
> flight into the world.  The arrival of a stranger catalyzes the
> members of a
> little created "family" to begin their separate journeys.
> 
> -- Victor Lodato, "The Mystery School."  Nine-year-old twins Zelda
> and Margo
> survive Dr. Josef Mengele's famous Auschwitz study of twins, then
> must deal
> (or not) with the legacy of death and loss so early in their lives.
> Organized by dream logic, this play explores the way reliability
> shifts when
> we use the memory of the heart.
> 
> -- Fiona Templeton, "The Medead."  Fiona is revisiting the Medea
> myths of
> Greece and the Middle East in an ensemble piece for ten performers --
> five
> women who play Medea at different points in her life, and five men
> who play
> the male characters on whom her life had an impact.  Dense, musical,
> piercing and mysterious, this is unlike any Medea you've seen before.
> 
> On August 6, we send you home.
> 
> If you have questions, please don't hesitate to call me at the Center
> at
> (612) 332-7481, ext. 21.  If you're interested in this opportunity,
> please
> email me at meganmonaghan@msn.com, not on the RAT list.  Please also
> publicize as widely as you wish elsewhere -- Mitchell or someone in
> L.A., if
> you'd put it on the BCT list I'd appreciate it.  Thanks!
> 
> Megan
> Mpls.
> 
> 
> 
> 


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