Fast and Loose off and running.

We are off to a great start on our Fast and Loose '12 festival.

At 11 a.m. today, we converged on Access Theater and the games began. Actors, directors and playwrights took random words and started sculpting characters and stories and general weirdness for three hours.

Now the playwrights are off making their magic ... and we wait.

Starting at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, the first batch of six new 10-minute plays start to crawl. By performance time at 8 p.m. Tuesday, they will be walking, running, dancing and, if today is any indication, soaring.

Then the next seven new plays will launch at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday.

Thursday, the strongest of the strong will get a second performance.

Who will be pushed forward to greatness on Thursday? You can help decide by coming to the shows and voting on your favorites.

Contact TruantArts@gmail.com for details.

Shows:

8 p.m. Tuesday
8 p.m. Wednesday
8 p.m. Thursday

Access Theater, 380 Broadway, 4th floor (at the corner of White Street and Broadway, two blocks south of Canal Street).

Theater artists, let's grab a quickie Aug. 26-30.

Truant Arts’ Fast and Loose Festival

(6 plays in 48 hours) X 2 = 12 playwrights, 12 directors, 24+ actors

Truant Arts, in partnership with Access Theater, is seeking playwrights, directors, and actors to help us command a space for four days of theater mayhem during the final week of August.
If you are a playwright who can handle the thrill of high-speed writing, we want you.


If you are a director who can realize a vision on the move, we want you.


If you are an non-union actor ready to grab a script in both hands in the morning and perform it that night, we want you.


If you think you've got what it takes, follow the links above for more information on your speciality. If you still think you want to spend quality time with us, email TruantArts@gmail.com and let us know you are in.

Please include “actor,” “director” or “writer” in the subject line.

Actors, let's get emotionally naked together for a couple of days

Truant Arts' Fast and Loose Festival

Actors

From 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 26, you will be grouped with a director, a playwright and one or two other 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, your playwright will go forth and write a brand new, shiny 10-minute play (average 10 pages).

At midnight Monday or Tuesday, depending on performance schedules, you will be emailed a PDF file of your play. Your team will rehearse all day, including a scheduled tech in the theatre, 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 the project, you will be required to attend the improvisation session on Sunday, Aug. 26, and all-day rehearsals the day of performance. You will also be required to perform on Thursday night if your play moves to the finals show, so you will need to keep that time clear just in case.

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

Directors, get jiggy with us for a couple of days

Truant Arts' Fast and Loose Festival

Directors

From 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 26, you will be grouped with a playwright 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, your playwright will go forth and write a brand new, shiny 10-minute play (average 10 pages).

At midnight either Monday or Tuesday, depending on performance schedules, you and your actors will be emailed a PDF file of your play. Your team will rehearse all day, including a scheduled tech in the theatre, 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 to attend the improvisation session on Sunday, Aug. 26, and to direct your cast on the day of performance. We would love for you to attend the performance(s), but that is up to you.

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

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.