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do is create a virtual venue where
we would get some grant money
and take a closed store front or
maybe have a tent set up in an
area where there are no theaters
around for people in the commu-
nity who normally cannot get to
art. Then any artist that has their
own show would apply to a call
for proposals. We’re looking to
start this next summer in the Bur-
lington area. Basically any artist
would apply and we’d give them
a free slot in the virtual venue. We
don’t pay the actors or for them
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to build sets, but we will advertise
the show for them, they’ll get a cut
at the door, and they won’t have
to pay rent for the facility.”
Flashwright will also offer Rid-
dlesbrood the opportunity to
produce scripts sent to them that
they’ve had to turn away. In do-
ing so, it will offer playwrights the
chance to have their shows put up
without needing to spend the high
costs typically involved in produc-
ing a show.
Even though the Flashwright
Project sounds like it has a lot of
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