Manton Avenue Project This Weekend

I'm going to be appearing in a show for the Manton Avenue Project this weekend.


The Manton Avenue Project is a replication of the 52nd Street Project in New York. Basically, children write plays that are then performed and directed by professional theatre artists The 52nd street Project has been going since 1981. Jenny Peek, the Manton Avenue Project director, worked in New York with the original, and is now starting a similar project here. This will be the first show.


9 children, ages 8-10, have written plays in a weekend workshop. A group of professional actors, myself included, are going to be in them. The whole evening is entitled And That's the Way It Was . . . Maybe and the shows are supposed to be historically-themed. The play that I am in (Good People by Cameron Holle) is about Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King. (and you got it, I'm playing Martin Luther King!) Considering that it was written in a weekend by an 8 year old, I think it is a mighty fine play! (actually, it's been quite a pleasure to collaborate with my partners on this play, Laura Wood and Charles Mulewka. I feel like we've done great work, and realized young Cameron's vision of the play while at the same time making a nice little piece of theatre.) I'm sure the rest of the shows will be fun to see too!


WHERE: Brown University's McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown St Providence.
WHEN: Friday March 19 and Saturday March 20 at 7:30 pm, & Sunday March 21 at 3 pm.

COST: The show is free, but seating is reserved. To reserve a seat, call 331-7007