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HONOR Tech Sizzled!
Don Troy (Ed Altman) enters for the big meeting at the top of HONOR 
Ludwig Cade (John Blaylock) looks to his colleague Ronnee Emerson (Alinca Hamilton) for support in HONOR 
Ronnee Emerson (Alinca Hamilton) faces up with a smile to
Don Troy (Ed Altman) in HONOR
Ronnee Emerson (Alinca Hamilton) considers the dilemmas in HONOR And many more fine photos from our February 12th session by our Executive Producer Marjorie Phillips Elliott with thanks to Christina, Nicole, and Gabby at The Chain Theatre Winter One-Act Festival where we run February 16th 21st ad 24th. Tix here.
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All honor to Ed Altman in…HONOR: Link to Tix Below
The character — Don Troy — that Ed Altman plays in HONOR is the first one to utter our play’s title word and the way in which Ed delivers its two syllables is like tossing a match Into a room full of Roman Candles. Explosions ensue yet Ed’s character never flinches. Indeed, this dynamism is just what the play requires: an incendiary presence who flicks and lunges verbally at his two colleagues in this debate about what honor means. The trio proceed to sizzle and sparkle along the way in their storytelling with revelations and accusations, but not apologies.
Ed’s formidable array of acting experiences served him well in preparing for this role. Past work with Knowledge Workings Theater includes: The Oracle, Keeping Right, Grudges (Narrator). Other recent stage appearances had him in Two Swans, Nowhere Man, Victoria Woodhull (both at Theater for the New City). Also of late screens both big and small have benefited from Ed’s stalwart presence and straightforward style: TV/Streaming: The Good Cop (NTD/Epoch TV), The Vow (HBO), Food that Built America (History Channel), Dragon Meets Eagle(Amazon). His most recent film: The Dummy Detective is in production right now but earlier efforts include, Biff & Me, Oatmelio’s, Thumbwrestler II, Jazz John, all making the international film festival circuit. Ed was a member of the comedy group Prom Night with whom he wrote and performed at the Westbank Café back in the days of Lewis Black and Rusty McGee. He is also a voiceover artist for commercial and corporate work, and has voiced several audio books. Get your tickets now for one of the three performances upcoming of HONOR at The Chain Theatre Winter One-Act Festival
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Discount codes for Chain Winter One-Act Festival
#maketheaterlive
The Medico Della Peste will protect us from the plague of apathy and ‘couch consciousness’Short Version
Go see as many shows as you can at The Chain Winter One-Act Festival and especially our, HONOR. They all have discount codes that are available at the bottom of this page; our discount code is unsurprisingly ‘HONOR..
Longer But Much More Enlightening Version
At Knowledge Workings Theater, our motto since founding in 2018 has been #maketheaterlive and depending upon your stress of that ‘i’ in “live” the meaning of our catchphrase shifts. To make theater continue to thrive, the actors, playwright, directors, lighting, sound, set, costume, makeup folks, and the producers must engage audiences who after all complete the puzzle of every performance. But first we must persuade the audience to show up, which as Marshall Brickman learned is 80% of success after all. This is not a new problem as some journalists would contend lately; indeed the first documented use of the phrase ‘a run’ in the English language to describe “The (length of) time during which a theatrical performance continues on stage” was in 1699 by dramatist and critic Charles Gildon as part of a complaint about English audiences NOT showing up:
“In Paris almost e’ry one goes to the Theatre, here not the tenth part, for..the Governours of the House were unwilling to wear it out, and so balk’d the Run of it.”
C. Gildon in G. Langbaine, Lives English Dramatic Poets (revised edition) 144Many writers have referred to theatre more recently as ‘The Fabulous Invalid‘, which ironically originated as the title of a 1938 play by genius playwrights Kaufman and Hart that audiences didn’t frequent enough to get the production beyond 65 performances and middling reviews. It’s never been revived.
And yet theatre persists with the attitude of one of Beckett’s characters: “I must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on” And it will go on quite marvelously and prolifically starting this Friday February 9th in the Chain Theater Winter One-Act Festival. Our work, HONOR, is in Program #1, an Equity Showcase, premiering on February 16th at 8:30 PM and then continuing our brief ‘run‘ on the 21st at 6:30 PM and the 24th at 5PM. But we want everyone to know about the opportunity to see other plays such as our dear friend and colleague, Lucy McMichael, in Doc Burns and Mrs. Teter And we want everyone to get the discount available by using the correct ode for each play they wish to attend.
So… below you will find the complete list courtesy of Christina Elise Perry who always helps to #maketheaterlive
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Shooting scenes from Alms on July 22-23
These photos are from a reading that we did in April preparing for our upcoming two days of shooting of 4 – okay, it might actually be five – scenes from the very first play produced by Knowledge Workings Theater: Alms. In the first photograph below, co-authors of that play, T.J. Elliott (center) & Joe Queenan are joined by our cinematographer, Michael Cain (right).
Aaron Long (Brian) and Lucy McMichael (Sister Catherine Imelda)
Aarons acts animatedly!
Below you can see Director Gifford Elliott (far left) with Joe & T.J.
Ed Altman (Martin) checking his lines alongside Aaron & Lucy
Stay tuned for the scenes that we hope will serve as a prelude to a restaging of our first success!
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