ALL ABOUT IMAGE/WE ARE THE ELITE Heads to the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival

In Marcina Zaccaria's ALL ABOUT IMAGE/WE ARE THE ELITE, photographers, landscape photographers, videographers, assistants, and their subjects are under scrutiny. What they see is under critique. What they present is a complete outpouring of their entire vision. In monologues and dialogues, revelations are within their grasp. Playwright Marcina Zaccaria relays a philosophical bent when describing her play, "what is faded and blurry slowly comes into focus. Sepia and yellow coordinate with black. Abstract repetition in rhythm and form is juxtaposed with distinct shape of the American landscape. Yesterday becomes today, and the image presents."

A drama written in the present time, taking place in New York City and other parts of the U.S., All About Image/ We are the Elite is a journey of the people who make images. In the process of capturing and making these images, the characters explore their personal relationships while re-affirming their aesthetic principles. With attention to memory, consciousness, and place in time, action occurs and re-occurs. Quiet and stillness are values.

In All About Image/ We are the Elite, they believe that they are always in the process of creating something that is greater than what's on a page, what's in the photo gallery, and what's on the screen.

The Broadway Bound Theatre Festival will offer-up a truncated version of the piece done in staged reading format with two other pieces for one night only, Thursday, August 22 at 8pm at Theatre Row at Theatre One, 410 W.42nd Street. Set, Light Design by Jak Prince. Visit Telecharge. Then it will premiere - in its entirety - at The New York International Fringe Festival at The Kraine Theater located at 85 East 4th Street in NYC in the first week of October (dates TBA).

Actors will speak in vignettes, coordinated with static and moving images. The experience is meditative and reflective. Focus can be soft and hard, accentuating foreground, then background. With the person as a primary target, attention can shift. What shifts moves slowly and quickly.

The play takes place in the present time, but as it deals with memory, and the images are only sometimes look time-worn.