Re: RAT come to PlayLabs

["Megan Monaghan" <meganmonaghan@email.msn.com>]

Thanks, Wally, I will!

-----Original Message-----
From: vz <dexteriously@yahoo.com>
To: rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com <rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com>
Date: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: RAT come to PlayLabs


>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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