comedy solo play for mature audiences
Next Up:
March 2025 – Wednesday evenings at the Norris Center Auditorium, Naples, Florida
Program Info
Time: the late Naughts
Place: New York City 5-floor walk-up, the streets, the subway, Immaculate Conception Church, and a lawyer’s office
Characters:
“Killer” Joe Tennent – the landlord
Jackie O – sometime tenant in the basement
Lorna B – Apt 2W
Thomas – Apt 3E
JP Georges – Apt 3W
Iona & Angelo – Apt 4E
Chris – Apt 5E
Roxy – City employee
Father Ben – Priest at Immaculate Conception Church
Saakaar – a cabbie
Roveena LaGuidice – a lawyer and a rat
Franklin – a subway busker of lore
Lyle – the lazy panhandler
Bernard – Killer Joe’s twin brother, meaner and uglier
Also, random NYers, 12-steppers & subway announcer
Development History
The play was developed over a two-year period using conversations and situations witnessed in and around Manhattan and utilizing the talents of coaches, directors and dramaturges. What began as Fearless Moral Inventory on the recovery efforts in an age of addiction, the play was renamed as the plot that served as a background came to the forefront. Helena Judd worked on development and Cheryl King began working as a dramaturge. Playwright and performer Frank Blocker then utilized the vocal coaching skills of Amy Jones while working for a year with Kathy Kelly Christos on staging and character development. Jeffrey Edward Peters directed the show into its current production. A great solo show does not happen alone.
Show Performance History
- 2024, August 30 – Alliance for the Arts in Lee County, Florida, Foulds Theatre
- 2024, May 30-June 2 – Fringe Fort Myers sponsored by the Alliance for Arts Lee Co.
- 2013 – Hollywood Fringe Festival produced by The Visceral Company
- 2012, January-March – Blocker won hat trick of Manhattan Monologue Slams using three selections from the play. Check out the video from the development days.
- 2010 through December 2012, two year run at Stage Left Studio, New York City.
Reviews and Press
| New York Theatre Experience, 5/15/2012, REVIEW Electronic Link Journey, 5/10/2012, REVIEW Features Broadway World, 5/3/2012, feature on sold-out 1st performance, Stage Left Studio Stage Voices, 3/14/2012, appeared in “Selected Shorts,”, Left Out Festival Nearsay.com, 3/14/2012, feature on Forbidden Kiss LIVE Notable Performances of Material at Other Events 3-time winner of Manhattan Monologue Slam using different selections from show. appeared in Selected Shorts at the Left Out Festival. appeared in Forbidden Kiss LIVE! PROFOUND and INCREDIBLE. “Pick of the Month” “Frank Blocker is an actor and writer extraordinaire who sees life in a way most of us just skim past. Even better, he infuses it with humor. He is a writer who needs to be nurtured for his incredible talent. Stabilized Not Controlled (A Fearless Moral Inventory) is our Pick of the Month. This play should be submitted for the Pulitzer Prize for the profound way it views life.” —Suzanna Bowling, The Examiner (now examiner.com) FASCINATING. “The range of possibilities here are multiplied and magnified because Frank Blocker is fearless. The gamut of his vocal acrobatics is amazing. He is a charming, facile man who is working hard building a suspense that is fascinating.” —Eugene Paul, TheaterScene.net Past Features tdf STAGES, 3/15/2010, feature on Stage Left Studio The Clyde Fitch Report, 3/26/2010, “5 Questions” The New York Times, 2/23/2010, 2-page feature on Solo Shows |
Frank Blocker 