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Jacob’s House Artist Reveal #2: Zack Calhoon

What is Jacob’s House?What is ForePlay: Divine Reckonings? Zack CalhoonActor, Jacob’s HousePrevious Flux Experience: Flux Sundays as playwright, actor, and director Do you have a favorite Bible character?King David Are you blessed?Yes, I am blessed with an amazing wife and many wonderful friends. If you were wrestling an angel, what moves would you use?Half Nelson,…

Chess and Playwriting

In a recent game of chess, I felt the pull of the weird intuitive current that I usually only feel when writing plays. It was mid-game, and all of a sudden I knew which direction my pieces needed to move without actually knowing the exact moves I needed to make. It felt very much like…

Happy World Theatre Day!

Flux will be celebrating by, well, rehearsing theatre all day. BUT, if you’re not in rehearsal all day, there are all sorts of exciting things happening: – If you’re in NYC, check out the NYC World Theatre Day Coalition for flash and mobs and more– If you’re in the USA, check out my goodly employer’s…

Divine Reckonings Artists Reveal #3:Rob Ackerman

What is Jacob’s House?What is ForePlay: Divine Reckonings?Rob AckermanPlaywright, ForePlay Previous Flux Experience: Have been to many Flux Sundays, had a scene in a Have Another, spent a day at a Flux retreat, and Volleygirls had the honor of being featured as a Food:Soul. (Also, Dear China and Human Resources were featured in the ForePlays…

First Day Of Rehearsal(s)

Last night, Flux had our first rehearsal for our upcoming production of Jacob’s House. First rehearsals often seem to go one of three ways: The first rehearsal is treated as the thing you need to get through before real rehearsals begin: the creative team is guarded and cautious, and the actors throw the read through…

One Danger of Angel Wrestling

In honor of our upcoming production of Jacob’s House, a riff on the story of Jacob wrestling the Angel, I offer you this Thursday afternoon cartoon from Married to the Sea, (h/t Daniel John Kelley @funwithiago), artist currently unknown.

Under Construction

You may have noticed our humble little blog is going through some changes. These changes will hopefully make the blog cleaner, clearer, easier to read, and easier to navigate, and give a better sense of what Flux is all about. However, there is a lot of work to be done within this lovely New Arthemia…

Good Vibrations

There are some good vibrations going on in the blogosphere towards Flux these days: Isaac Butler and Tim Bauer have kindly takes on the absurdly short amount of time (@62 days!) Flux has to take Jacob’s House from first draft to full production. After finishing a 3rd draft on Sunday, we had a production meeting…

Divine Reckonings Artists Reveal #2:Bekah Brunstetter

What is Jacob’s House?What is ForePlay: Divine Reckonings? Bekah BrunstetterPlaywright, ForePlay Previous Flux Experience: This is my 3rd year doing foreplay: I wrote Pretty Pretty and the Asshead McGee for the production of Midsummer, right? And Old People, Making Out for Pretty Theft. Do you have a favorite Bible character? Definitely Esther. Why, I even…

Jacob’s House Artists Reveal #1:Anthony Wills, Jr.

What is Jacob’s House?What is ForePlay: Divine Reckonings? Anthony Wills, Jr.Actor, Jacob’s House Previous Flux Experience: Frequent Flux Sundayer. Appeared in two past ForePlays: Imagination Compact and Poetic Larceny. Do you have a favorite Bible character?Jesus duh? Are you blessed?Extremely. If you were wrestling an angel, what moves would you use?Sleeper hold. What would you…

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