"We're All in this Together: The Dialogue Play Festival" is the culminating production of The Manton Avenue Project’s Playmaking program, an afterschool playwriting course held at MAP’s Clubhouse in Olneyville. Eight young playwrights, 5th – 12th graders, each worked with artist mentor to devise a new play that reimagines the audience. For this project, The […]
Pedal Power: The Bicycle Play is the culminating performance of The Manton Avenue Project’s TAG TEAM program, an afterschool playwriting course held at MAP’s Clubhouse in Olneyville. Ten 5th grade playwrights will collaborate on a play about bicycling, community building and social history. For this project, The Manton Avenue Project partnered with the Recycle-A-Bike and […]
Pedal Power: The Bicycle Play is the culminating performance of The Manton Avenue Project’s TAG TEAM program, an afterschool playwriting course held at MAP’s Clubhouse in Olneyville. Ten 5th grade playwrights will collaborate on a play about bicycling, community building and social history. For this project, The Manton Avenue Project partnered with the Recycle-A-Bike and […]
Yes Farms, Yes Food: The Farm-to-Table Plays! is the culminating production of The Manton Avenue Project’s 2017 Playmaking program, an afterschool playwriting course held at MAP’s Clubhouse in Olneyville. Ten young playwrights, all third graders, each worked with a dramaturge (grown-up playwriting mentor) to write a new play that explores the theme of local farms […]
The Manton Avenue Project's next play fest is inspired by stories shared around the campfire. Ten young playwrights from 6th to 10th grade have created original plays and performance pieces devised together with their dramaturgy mentors at a four-day writing retreat at Nature's Classroom in Charlton, MA, where we took a night hike and learned […]
Saving the World: The Climate Change Play Festival is the culminating production of The Manton Avenue Project’s Dialogue program, a playwriting course held at MAP’s Clubhouse in Olneyville during the summer, which culminates in a four day camping and performance devising retreat. 4th-10th grade playwrights partnered with adult artists to devise original performance responses to […]
An evil baboon dictator. Magical islands separated by a wall. A resistance builds./Un malvado dictador babuino. Islas mágicas separadas por una pared. Una resistencia construye. “The Manton Avenue Project is thrilled to be present Get Out the Vote, a musical collaboration by ten young people who are very much impacted by the current state of […]
The Manton Avenue Project is thrilled to present this world premiere film of a musical adaptation of the 2021 Kids Reading Across Rhode Island book, Becoming Muhammed Ali by James Patterson and Kwame Alexander. Our 5th grade playwrights worked with local songwriters to adapt the book into a musical, starring some beloved local actors, dancers, […]
Join MAP Director Meg Sullivan for three community autobiographical writing workshops to generate material for our fall musical project! Each workshop will be themed - see more below- and we will seek to answer the question, how do we envision the future? Can we go "back to normal" after the last three years? Do we […]
Two festivals in one! The Manton Avenue Project is proud to present an evening of new works by young people - The New Normal Musicals: Original musicals by 5th graders that explore our new normal after three years of tumult, change, and resilience. And The Celebration Plays by 4th graders: plays that celebrate all the different ways we […]