it's crunch time. we're all running around pushing for entries, developing assignments, figuring out the logistics of the day - and now rehearsing our own little addition to the event.

that's right, since we'll be stending the day of walking around in lab coats, hiding behind clip-boards, observing the rest of you lab-rats and occasionally injecting dangerous sometimes-deadly hormones into your veins, we get to start rehearsing our bit early.

Emily, Michelle and Ben are at it right now - as i post - with the help of our new co/lab stage manager Deanne Binde (thanks Deanne). What they are trying to do is this:

SEPARATE:
1. write down your three to five favorite moments from our assignments last week. be specific about what you liked.
2. write down your three to five favorite moments and/or lines and/or images from our writing assignments
3. write down three super-sweet character names

TOGETHER:
1. compile your moments/lines/images.
2. take an hour to create a ten minute multi-scene play using:
- at least five of your compiled favorite moments
- at least three of your compiled favorite lines
- one super-sweet character name per person
- at least one repeated scene
- at least one scene directly out of another assignment
- no major new material
- moments of anti-action comedy
- moments of extremes: tempo and spacial relationship
- at least one scene repeated in reverse
- three surprises and a role for the audience
- a beginning, a middle and an end
- destruction of all relevant stereotypes
- abrupt ending with broken expectations

3. I'll join you. Then we'll spend the rest of the week turning it into hard-core action theatre.

ERIC,
New World International Interdisciplinary Action Comedy Research CoLaborative

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