{"id":665,"date":"2013-02-02T13:30:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T18:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/?p=665"},"modified":"2013-02-02T14:24:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T19:24:10","slug":"inspirato-theatre-mentoring-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/?p=665","title":{"rendered":"Inspirato Theatre Mentoring Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten days to the deadline for the first draft of a ten-minute play for this year&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inspiratofestival.ca\/current-festival.php\" target=\"_blank\">Inspirato Festival<\/a> (at the Alumnae Theatre in Toronto, May 30-June 8, 2013).<\/p>\n<p>Below, the fellow Inspirato playwrights in the same predicament. Half of us have to write a play related to \u00ab\u00a0tunnel\u00a0\u00bb and the other half of us on \u00ab\u00a0rope\u00a0\u00bb. (Then, we work with a dramaturge to polish the play in time for production.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_666\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-666\" style=\"width: 462px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Inspirato2013MentoringProject.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-666\" title=\"Inspirato2013MentoringProject\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Inspirato2013MentoringProject.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Inspirato2013MentoringProject.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Inspirato2013MentoringProject-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">InspiraTO&rsquo;s Playwrights&rsquo; Mentoring Project participants: Standing (L to R): Jenny Alexander, Lindsay Cochrane, Brett Haynes, Ayesha Mansur, A.M. Matte, Kevin Craig, Jordan Mechano, Christopher Duthie. Kneeling (L to R): Ashley Park, Rachel Ganz, Madeleine Jullian, Mirella Christou.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So far, I&rsquo;ve written about two women attempting to rob a club owner, a mother eager to see her child off to college and a violin maker in love with a musician. None of those plays \u00a0have what it takes to make it to the festival&rsquo;s mentors.<\/p>\n<p>However, I&rsquo;m fairly confident about my latest attempt, in which two crooks get swindled. I now just have to figure out if anyone gets shot at the end. Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten days to the deadline for the first draft of a ten-minute play for this year&rsquo;s Inspirato Festival (at the Alumnae Theatre in Toronto, May 30-June 8, 2013). Below, the fellow Inspirato playwrights in the same predicament. Half of us<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[323,297,58,324,56,298,57,18,99],"language":[7],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-festival","tag-inspirato","tag-mentor","tag-mentorship","tag-play","tag-playwright","tag-playwriting","tag-theatre","tag-toronto","language-en_ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=665"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Flanguage&post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}