48 Hour Play Plate-Off Cold-Read-Marathon

48 Hour Play Plate-Off Cold-Read-Marathon

By Nickel Flour Productions

Directed by Samantha Marchant

Sun, Nov 13- 10:00am

A final celebration and reading of scripts written during the 48 Hour Play Plate-Off challenge. There will be no feedback, just lots of applause. Readers will be chosen on the spot from those willing in the audience.   More information about the 48 Hour Play Plate-Off challenge below: Inspired by 48 Hour Play Festivals and Paula Vogel’s Bake-Offs, Nickel Flour hosts its first 48 Hour Play Plate-Off.   On Thursday, November 10 at 7:00 PM EST, playwrights will gather on Zoom to receive the ingredients to write their “Plate Plays” within 48 hours. (Can't make the Zoom? No worries! We will send out a recap email to everyone registered, after the meeting.) The ingredient menu given during the Zoom will be laid out like a Rochester Plate menu. Choice of meat, choice of 2 sides, choice of toppings, bonus side of buttered bread. Choose how you like your plate and find out which script ingredients you've been assigned! Then it's time to write! Rules:   1. Plays must be written within the 48 hours allotted. 2. No rewriting. You are free to do that once the festival is over. Allow yourself to keep writing freely. 3. Let the play be as long as it wants to be at this moment. Your script could be 5 pages. It could be 120 pages. If your script falls outside of that range - that’s ok too! 4. Playwrights may be located anywhere. If there are time restraints for the reading slots during the cold-read-marathon, preference may be given to local (Rochester, NY) playwrights.   Scripts are due Saturday, November 12 at 7:00 PM EST (once 48 hours are up). At 7:01, Nickel Flour will start to assign reading slots to scripts that want to participate in the cold-read-marathon. If interested in signing up for the challenge - please email nickelflour@gmail.com by 11/10/22

About the CompanyNickel Flour, the brainchild of playwright/director Samantha Marchant and artist Drea Bim, was created to provide a home for the weird and wonderful artists that make up the DIY art scenes of Western New York. Nickel Flour’s first production was 1st Impressions, three shorts told in branching story-telling structure which premiered at the 2021 Rochester Fringe Festival. Shows performed at MuCCC: 1st Impressions (2021 Rochester Fringe Festival), Firewater (March 2022)