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Tom Block

TOM BLOCK

  
Nationality:    USA
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Tom Block's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Tom Block's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Butterfly         La Bestia: Sweet Mother         White Noise

Butterfly

Synopsis:
Butterfly explores the final day of a self-appointed prophet, Todd (half-Black and half-Jewish), a once promising professional baseball player who answered a call to prophecy fifteen years before. the play takes place in the suburban Washington D.C. living room of the house he grew up in, with his single acolyte (a Serbian refugee), a therapist, a medieval Muslim mystic (Ibn Sina) he has called back from the dead, the bubbly Martini, a beautician, his mother, his invisible Father and other characters that help bring his quest for prophecy to resolution.

Notes:
Butterfly received its first reading at the Kennedy Center (Washington DC) on September 3, 2012.

1st Produced:
Takoma Park Community Center Theater, 7500 Maple Ave., Takoma Park, Md 20912     15 Feb 2013

Organisations:
Wanderlust Theater Lab

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
105 min Drama

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La Bestia: Sweet Mother

Synopsis:
Based on the earliest creation texts, La Bestia: Sweet Mother explores the knife's edge between creation and destruction. The play weaves a tale of three mothers who are also, due to their personal circumstances, forced to become destroyers. It uses La Bestia Freight Train as metaphor for this thin line.

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White Noise

Synopsis:
artist and writer Tom Block's first play White Noise follows an African-American painter whose work is based on spiritual themes, as he travels to Detroit for an art exhibit of his work. at first calm, mature and erudite, Tim meets a seemingly normal cast of characters, who are volunteers with the church Arts committee where Tim is to exhibit his paintings. However, all of them from the hidden poet Lilac, cultural ambassador and psychically injured Sally and ex-Northrup Grumman Vice President Dick to the oversexed marriage therapist Joan, tweak at his interior demons. Tim struggles with and then succumbs to his own fixations, as an increasingly bizarre exterior reality and a scantily-clad Simone Weil, a historical figure that metastasizes as a figment of his own imagination, close in on him. Having abandoned true faith, Tim grasps for "faith in faith," and in the end finds dubious understanding, alone in a bathroom.

Notes:
White Noise has received numerous readings. It was read by Calliope theater Company (MD) And directed by the Maryland State Playwright in Residence (John Morogiello) At the Writer's Center in Bethesda (2008). It has Also been read At the Hamiltonian Gallery (DC), by Stroyka theater Company (2009), Amnesty International Human Rights Art Festival (MD) by Wanderlust theater Company (2010) And At the Kennedy Center (DC) "Page to Stage" theater Festival by Wanderlust theater Company (2010).

1st Produced:
The Fridge, 516 1/2 8th Street, Se, Washington, Dc.     08 Jun 2012

Organisations:
Wanderlust Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
80 min one act

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