Re: RAT come to PlayLabs

[Bonnie Cullum <ethos@texas.net>]

Hi Megan--
I have been following Rat correspondance for several months.  Your notice is
the first thing that I have responded to !!!   This is totally for me.

But I cannot come those dates.  Too many artistic director obligations already
on the fire for that weekend.  Please keep me in mind for next year or other
things like this in the future.  I presented a whole season of original work
this year, and I am looking for new contacts to fuel the fires.

Thanks.  I hope you are doing well.
Love,
Bonnie

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Megan Monaghan 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.