1st Script-n-Hand Series

Meat & Potato is a very proud partner with Plan B Theatre Company in managing the Playwrights' and Directors' Laboratories. Jerry Rapier of Plan B produced the Labs' first ever Script-in-Hand series where Mark Fossen and Andra Harbolt direct two new plays by Debora Threedy and Elaine Jarvik. They were performed by actors I've all directed before and greatly respect: Josh Thoemke, Deena Marie Manzanares, Colleen Lewis and Stephanie Howell.

It was wonderful to have experienced these plays in their infancy as a scene or a writing exercise, and now to see them as completed pieces. It was also a very wonderful feeling to see actors going full out, and an audience hanging on their every word, all without ever really seeing the director's hand in the process--which is a great credit to Andra and Mark, who have obviously taken the to heart the opening line of William Ball's book A SENSE OF DIRECTION: "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain".

Here is the review.