Tom Block

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Artist Statement

Monologue. This play is about myself, about how my search for meaning in this incomprehensible world mimics that of God, as God attempts, through creation, to understand Itself. My personal struggle is an echo of the original impetus for the creation of the universe. My psychological pain is nothing more than the reverberation of God’s primal anguish.

You must understand: the birthing of the cosmos was not an act of love, but one of desperation. God, unitary, pre-conscious and alone, longing to sense It’s own existence, created duality as a manner of becoming conscious of Itself. After all, something that has no opposite cannot truly exist, so God was forced out of a desperate need, to fold Itself back from Itself, and create time, place and being, fashioning something that might yearn to understand God, as God yearns to understand Itself. The existential crisis at the heart of our human existence is God’s existential crisis, manifested in the realm of being; we truly have been created in God’s distressed and lonely image. I –

(Bilbao, dressed in a long, flowing pink skirt, fire engine red lipstick, high heels, a long, billowing green boa and other appropriate accoutrements minces slowly and seductively across the stage. He discovers Tim, walks slowly around him, sizing him up, nibbles his ear, then minces seductively offstage.)

Q: With which character do you most empathize? Why? Please be explicit.