The celebrated ensemble theater company CollaborationTown returns to Watermill, deriving inspiration from the Morality Plays, primarily of the Medieval and Tudor periods, in a contemporary American environment. The didactic nature of the source plays, coupled with their utter lack of humor, makes them ripe for parody. CollaborationTown's experimentation led them to the theatrical creation of a new self-help movement, Momentum: The Teachings of Ezra. Like all morality plays, the theatrical company represents a force, or church, that sets out to save the audience's souls. CollaborationTown becomes MOMENTUM. 

CollaborationTown will be working with Elka Rifkin, Director of Bridgehampton’s Ross Lower School and Director of the Watermill Center Community Board, to spend time with students, teaching them about the company’s methods of play development, writing, and performance.

CollaborationTown is a non-profit theater organization that unifies different styles, opinions, emotions, backgrounds, and philosophies into cohesive, ensemble-driven pieces of theater. New work is developed by the company’s unique four-tier play development process, CTown’s Play Nursery. All artistic and operating decisions are made by a team called the Artistic Core, whose members are alumni of Boston University’s School of Theatre Arts.

This free workshop/work-in-progress presentation is part of the Watermill Center's Spring 2010 Artists-in-Residence program.