Blinding Silence

Manna-Symone Middlebrooks

An Original Play Written, Directed and Produced by:

Goal✴ Experience multiple theater professions

✴ Introduce students and the community to the power of the theater

Background ✴ An intimate relationship with the theater

✴ Recycling and Shopping for ideas: NHD Project

Inquiry ✴ Why does American media not reflect

its society?

✴ How do you make facts interesting?

✴ What is my role in the theater community?

Research ✴ American History 1950-1970

✴ Theater games that work

✴ Inspirational Playwrights

Collaboration✴ Philadelphia Young Playwrights

✴ Building a creative team, not a cast

Presentation

✴ Taking stage at the InterAct

✴ Video DocumentationQuickTime™ and a

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Reflection✴ Explore different techniques

✴ Balance workshop and rehearsal

Looking Forward✴ Build a new team and finish the piece

✴ Create my type of theater

Acknowledgements✴ David

O’Connor

✴ Josh Block

✴ Alexa Dunn

✴ Essie Middlebrooks

✴ Cast and Crew

✴ Philadelphia Young Playwrights