Playwrights, have a summer fling with us

Truant Arts' Fast and Loose Festival

Playwrights

From 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m on Sunday, Aug. 26, you will be grouped with a director and a few actors at Access Theater, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor (two blocks south of Canal Street). As a creative team, you will improvise on a theme. Out of this improvisation, you will go forth and write a brand new, shiny 10-minute play (average 10 pages). At 10 p.m. Monday you will email the script in PDF format to TruantArts@gmail.com. We will send that script out to your actors and director at midnight either Monday or Tuesday, depending on the night your show is scheduled to be performed.

Your team will rehearse all day and perform in the evening. Audiences will vote on the top three plays each night. Those plays will move on to a Thursday night performance.

If you join this project, you will be required attend the improvisation session on Sunday, Aug. 26, and to write a brand new 10-page play and send it to TruantArts@gmail.com by 10 p.m. Monday, Aug. 27. We would love for you to be involved in the rehearsal process as an observer and to attend the performance(s), but that is your choice once the script is submitted.

If you want to play, send an email to TruantArts@gmail.com, with "Playwright" in the subject line.

48 hours - 12 new plays? It can be done. It will be done.

Will you be one of the ones to do it?

If you are an actor, writer or director and you want to find out how you can join the fast and furious new play festival we are putting up Aug. 27-30, email truantarts@gmail.com for details.

It is summer. We have a stage.

Let us commit acts of theater together.

Can it be? Is there life on the fringe?

Go to the fringes of the world, where the monsters are. Only when you get there will you know if you are alive or dead.

It's an idea that dances in my head from time to time and this time it is taking me into the world and economy of fringe festivals.

Here are some notes from a fringe artist on surviving. And some of the artist's videos.

I'll post more information as I find it.

-- Manchild Truant

You can also follow our tumblr account. It's where we are putting links to theater-related online information.

today's Truant pics

gratitude in list form

THANK YOU...

Sol & Eileen Bilkis
Rachel Crouthamel
Stuart & Rhoda Davidoff
Liam Ewing
Leonora & Steve Fleisher
Christy Futch
Scott Gioia
Alyssa Gleason
Henry Hamilton
Greg Moss
Anne & George Power
Joseph Naftali
Craig Rosler
Evan Rosler
Mark & Sheila Rosler
Grace & Peter Russo
Martin & Pat Shapiro
Cindy Stein
Judy & Patrick Walsh

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Access Theater (*Jackie)
Aporia Theater (*Sarah, Liz)
Brooklyn Brewery (*Ben)
FXFowle Gallery (*Max, Steve)
Left Hip Productions
Space on White
zArt Studios (*Thomaz)

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Rachel Blithe
Megan Curet
Krista Fogle
Katherine Gordon
Matt Graham
Katharine Henner
Hearsay
Christina Hernandez
Camilla Houston
Boots LaMae
Nathan Rosler
Nicole Serra
Diamando Stratakos
Emily Tucker

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WE CAN'T DO WHAT WE DO WITHOUT ANY OF YOU.  THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR TOES (WHICH IS SO MUCH DEEPER THAN THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS)

<3

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The last show ...

"Four Square" closed last night with a great show and a brilliant audience.

The truants finished striking the set at noon today. There is a hole in our souls now. Time to take a nap and then ramp up the next projects.

Help us out with "Splinters," the working title of our next piece. What we need first is your anonymously contributed understanding of your own personal relationship style. What works? What doesn't? What do you know you do over and over again that isn't particularly useful to building real relationships?

We will take this information and eight to 10 actors with us out behind the Sip-n-Slip liquor store on Franklin Street and start creating a piece of character-driven interactive theater that comes from the lives of real people.

Walk with us on this next truant journey by following this link to "Splinters -- Pulled from Truant Love" and sharing some of your secrets.

We love you all ... in an unhealthy way.

Oh, shit! Almost forgot. If you follow us on Twitter we are starting a dialogue under #truantlove. We'd love to see you there.

"Four Square" kicking ass

The actors are happy. The writer is happy. The director is happy. The audience is thrilled. 

Running until Sunday June 3rd at Access Theater, 380 Broadway, nyc

Saturday matinee (2 pm) is PAY WHAT YOU CAN.  Enjoy the play and then give what you think it was worth, and what you can afford!

Contact truantarts@gmail.com if you have ANY questions.

we love you.