Stage a reading and join us in
raising awareness about sex trafficking and child abuse in America. Any group can be part of our national campaign: Schools,
women's groups, communities, colleges, theaters, human rights
organizations, and youth service agencies can all host readings!
SCRIPT and PRODUCTION: Tempest will provide the script. The cost to use the script
is $150, which supports the national campaign network. Tempest
will provide a press release template, poster template, and
suggestions about staging and fundraising.
The play can be produced in many kinds of spaces, from a
small room to a big theater. It is 80 minutes long and requires
at least 9 actors. You can present it with professional actors
or with students, a teenage group, or a mixture of trained
and
amateur performers.
The host group will recruit the actors, director, find a
venue, and attract an audience. A host group may request
assistance from Tempest to arrange production details, or
oversee some rehearsals. These options will incur additional
charges.
FINANCES:
If the BODY&SOLD event is a fundraiser, the host group will
donate 10% of the funds raised to Tempest to defray expenses
of coordinating the readings on the national level. Tempest
is a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. Donations are fully
tax deductible.
The fundraising mission of this project is to
raise funds for community institutions that help teens at risk. Funds
raised beyond the costs of the reading must be donated to
an institution or project in your community that is helping
teens and parents at risk. Tempest can help you identify
these groups.
THE DISCUSSION:
The BODY&SOLD play
can stimulate many ideas on how to change the culture of
exploitation. We especially encourage communities to bring
young people to the play, brainstorm with their ideas and
strategies, and help to implement them.
The reading you stage will bring your community together
to tap into their inspired ideas about working for change.
The vibrant voices in the play will stimulate creative energy
in your audience to raise their voices in ways that can change
our culture and empower our young people.
Belina Mizrahi, Project Manager (617) 460-5294
Deborah Lake Fortson, Artistic Director (617) 731-9697 Email: tempest@rcn.com.
MISSION OF TEMPEST PRODUCTIONS
Tempest Productions makes innovative theater that
illuminates contemporary lives and social issues through movement,
image and text. Through interactive discussions and replay after our
productions, we raise awareness and build grass roots support for
changing the status quo, especially on issues which affect women,
girls, and young people.
