A Typical Day During the 10 Year Plan (Part 3 of 3)

A typical day continued . . . .

After dining and imbibing at Maz Mezcal, the 6 and E Trains carried us to Penn Station and our next event, watching the new dramatic off-off-Broadway play, The Block.

Program for  The Block

The play is set in the "Boogie Down", aka the South Bronx, and snapshots life there.  Here is a brief synopsis: 

"Dontrell’s just come back from upstate, no, not like Upstate upstate, just with his girl, you know, quiet workin’ man life. Now he’s back on his block in the Boogie Down, the South Bronx, where he did his dirt years back, but he’s not tryin’ to be grimy no more. Nah man, he’s trying to do good. But do you have any idea what that’s really like?"

"Based on conversations and interviews over two years in the South Bronx and with members of CASA, a project of New Settlement Community Apartments, comes a play that will change the way you look at New York."

"The Block is part of Working Theater’s Five Boroughs/One City Initiative in which the Company commissioned 5 teams of writers and directors to create a piece of theater by collaborating with community members in neighborhoods in each of the five boroughs on NYC."

The Block, the stage included a real-life street scene with storefront, sidewalk and bench

The set designer Raul Abrego based the set on actual scenes he photographed in the South Bronx, as seen below.  We have seen many similar street scenes in our travels in the Bronx and elsewhere in NYC, but we have not actually visited the South Bronx.    

Information in the program about The Block and its four sister plays.

Information in the program about the theater company producing the series of 5 plays. 

After watching The Block, we returned home.  Susan settled in to enjoy some time with her boys on HGTV.  Susan says she likes watching home renovations.  Greg knows better.
 

Property Brothers:  Jonathan and Drew Scott

It was a good day.