East Village
Chronicles, Volume 5
June 2008
Submit
Metropolitan Playhouse, New York's
renowned explorer of America's
Theatrical Heritage, is currently accepting submissions for new
plays inspired by the life and history of New York's Lower East
Side.
Submissions will be evaluated
by Metropolitan's artistic staff, and we
will produce up to 10 of the submitted plays in June, 2008, as part of
our 5th
Annual East Village Chronicles festival. As in prior years, the plays
selected will pertain to a chosen theme. For Volume 5, plays must
relate to an particular place (bar, park, streetcorner, shop,
residence) that has
been of particular importance in the neighborhood. (See below for
more
information.)
Submission Deadline:
Completed scripts must be
RECEIVED, by mail or e-mail, by 5:00 pm
Monday, March 17, 2008.
Metropolitan Playhouse
220 E 4th Street
New York, NY 10009
evc5@metropolitanplayhouse.org
The Festival
East Village Chronicles, Vol. 5 is
the 5th annual
festival of new, one-act plays that celebrate and explore the varied
history
and eclectic culture that have defined Manhattan's Lower East Side (in
all its
permutations). Combined into two, distinct evenings of
short plays, which run on alternating nights over three weeks, the
plays will include a variety of styles and tones, unified by their
being clearly related to life in the theater's neighborhood.
Metropolitan Playhouse will
produce the plays on our 3/4 thrust stage in our 51
seat theater at 220 E 4th Street.
The plays will be directed by
directors engaged by Metropolitan to
coordinate and rehearse the entire festival.
The plays will be performed by
a
core company of actors, cast specifically for the festival, each of
whom will perform in at least two festival plays. The cast of any
given play will be drawn from this core company, and therefore anyone
cast must be suitable for more than one play. Because we
are
forming a company, while playwrights' input is welcome (that is, highly
desired!), final decisions must remain with Metropolitan's artistic
staff.
The
Theme for 2008: Places
The Chronicles plays have been
connected each year in that they have
focused
on a certain topic, theme, or timeline. Selecting plays that are
inspired by some such organizing principle helps to give the festival
shape and to enrich the experience for audience members. (See *
below
for further discussion of the theme idea.)
This year, the Chronicles
will be devoted to Places that have been of particular importance in
the
neighborhood. Playwrights are encouraged to respond as directly or
creatively as they wish to this idea; how the
plays relate to the place is up to the playwright.
Technical
Guidelines
We are seeking plays of no more
than 20 minutes that can be played by 4
or fewer actors.
The plays will be presented
with at least three others in a given evening, and
as a consequence, should not require elaborate set or properties.
Performance
Dates: June 5 - June 22
Theater: Metropolitan
Playhouse
220 E 4th Street
Questions:
Alex Roe
Artistic Director,
Metropolitan Playhouse
212 995 8410
connect@metropolitanplayhouse.org
* Interviews from
nytheatre.com regarding the festival and the
selection of themes may be found at:
http://www.metropolitanplayhouse.org/Interviewevc1.htm and
http://www.metropolitanplayhouse.org/Interviewevc2.htm
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