Block & Tackle is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas
innovative productions of dramatic narratives
Current Projects
What happens when the devices we love, love, love so dearly began to love us back -- really return the love?
This is the premise of Ear Buds, Block and Tackle's entry into the Manhattan Repertory Theatre's current one-act play competition.
Why do you need to see this play, aside from the fact that it's very witty, timely, and well-cast?
Because if we win the competion, which has a preliminary round and a final round, we win the $1000 prize.
$1000. $1000. Did we say $1000? $1000.
And we can only win if you pack the house and vote us into the winner's circle.
Now, the nuts-and-bolts of dates, reservations, cost, location, and cast.
Preliminary Round
• Wednesday, May 16, at 6:30 pm
• Saturday, May 19, at 7 pm
• Sunday, May 20, at 2 pm
Reservations/Location
• Reservations are email only at mrtreserve@gmail.com - leave the date(s) and time(s) and the number of tickets, and you'll get an email confirmation. (You are going more than once, right?)
• Tickets are $20 at the door, cash only.
• Location: 303 West 42nd Street, Suite 614
Director/Cast
• Directed by Elfin Frederick Vogel
• Cast includes Steve Viola and Alexander Stine
• Sound design by Josh Millican
The Final Round
Four plays selected through the withering competition of the preliminary rounds will get two more performances on Saturday, June 2, at 6:30 and 9 PM. From the Holy Four will arise the Anointed One (Thousand Dollars Prize).
And be very, very careful the next you think about upgrading your devices -- that's all we're going to say. Just be careful.
We have a number of other projects in the incubation stage at the moment, including a radio play and a short film. We have also secured two new board members.
Here are few intellectual morsels to keep you interested:
Charles Mangin, "Girl with the Pearl Earbuds (apologies to Vermeer)". Used with permission.
This is the premise of Ear Buds, Block and Tackle's entry into the Manhattan Repertory Theatre's current one-act play competition.
Why do you need to see this play, aside from the fact that it's very witty, timely, and well-cast?
Because if we win the competion, which has a preliminary round and a final round, we win the $1000 prize.
$1000. $1000. Did we say $1000? $1000.
And we can only win if you pack the house and vote us into the winner's circle.
Now, the nuts-and-bolts of dates, reservations, cost, location, and cast.
Preliminary Round
• Wednesday, May 16, at 6:30 pm
• Saturday, May 19, at 7 pm
• Sunday, May 20, at 2 pm
Reservations/Location
• Reservations are email only at mrtreserve@gmail.com - leave the date(s) and time(s) and the number of tickets, and you'll get an email confirmation. (You are going more than once, right?)
• Tickets are $20 at the door, cash only.
• Location: 303 West 42nd Street, Suite 614
Director/Cast
• Directed by Elfin Frederick Vogel
• Cast includes Steve Viola and Alexander Stine
• Sound design by Josh Millican
The Final Round
Four plays selected through the withering competition of the preliminary rounds will get two more performances on Saturday, June 2, at 6:30 and 9 PM. From the Holy Four will arise the Anointed One (Thousand Dollars Prize).
And be very, very careful the next you think about upgrading your devices -- that's all we're going to say. Just be careful.
We have a number of other projects in the incubation stage at the moment, including a radio play and a short film. We have also secured two new board members.
Here are few intellectual morsels to keep you interested:
- The Anger Project - Plays written to explore why these should be our days of rage.
- Dead Mr. Beckett - Let's keep the dead hand of copyright off the throat of the living.
- Sita Sings the Copyright - Nina Paley, creator of Sita Sings the Blues, has chosen to not to copyright her work. I applaud her decision.
