Small Block - Act Two
Table Read
Manifest Media / TABLE READ
4.0 • 440 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The morning after Homecoming week hits different. P wakes up at Dizzy’s house pretending everything is fine, even though nothing is fine. The letter from St. John’s is in his pocket like a weight. The DeLorean didn’t show. The note he wrote is still in his head.
Outside, Kev and Dizzy shoot hoops like the world is normal. P pretends right along with them. The kind of pretending every kid knows too well. Then real life barges in, and the moment they were waiting for disappears before it even starts.
At the video store, things get even tighter. Bex is behind the counter. Kev is cracking jokes that cut deeper than he realizes. P is trying to disappear inside a ruined shirt and a smile that doesn’t fit anymore.
He escapes to the back room, plays a fighting game, and chooses the one character who feels closest to the person he can’t say out loud. For a second, he can breathe. Then everything and everyone he’s avoiding walks right in.
Act Two is where the mask slips. Where jokes stop being jokes. Where P realizes he can’t keep pretending forever.
SMALL BLOCK is a feature screenplay by Ashley Lauren, performed live and mixed like a feature film for your ears. From the award-winning team at TABLE READ / Manifest Media Productions.
Content Advisory: This episode contains suicidal ideation, transphobic and homophobic language, and minor fatphobic language, used intentionally to serve the story and its period portrayal.
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Cast (Full Feature):
P - Levi Dafferner
Kev - Kosi Eguchi
Bex - Piper Kingston
Dizzy - Deryck Hak
Miss World - Lydia Tinsley
Dad - Adam Pilver
Mrs. D - Gemma Kyle
Mom - Leah Zhang
Britt - Eric Miller
Tiff / Martha - Avery Norris
Mr. Welch / Kev's Dad - Eddie Aguirre
Dan / Zach - Aidan Dick
Jack - Kellen Rose
James - Michael Amir Nash
Rob - Jack Murphy
Janet / Video Store Clerk - Sabrina Ariss
Narrator - Paula Tiso
Written by Ashley Lauren
Produced by Jack Levy, Mark Knell, and Shaan Sharma for TABLE READ / Manifest Media
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Small Block, written by Ashley Lauren. Thank you for listening to Small Block. Please note that there is |
| 0:06.9 | adult language throughout that is not suitable for young listeners. Furthermore, there are a few |
| 0:11.9 | items that might be triggering for some readers. These include suicidal ideation, discussion, |
| 0:18.1 | transphobic language, homophobic language, minor instances of fatphobic language. |
| 0:24.4 | All phobic language is used intentionally for thematic reasons. It is not used without thought or |
| 0:29.2 | due to either naivete or bigotry. Thank you again for listening to Smallblock. Now, on to the show. |
| 0:39.2 | Oh, hey, cool, you're back. I'm glad I changed my mind about my dark thoughts, for the moment at least. |
| 0:46.2 | But now, Bex, my former best friend is super pissed at me. |
| 0:49.7 | Well, yeah. Is that because I'm a girl? What kind of question is that? |
| 0:53.8 | Plus, I totally like Kev my current friend, down during the Battle of Sexes. It's not the way I envisioned things going. Yeah. You think? At least we get to spend homecoming weekend at our friend and bandmates Dizzy's house. We're still fighting over whether or not to go to the dance, though. Not that any of us have dates yet. It'll be fun. We should go. Definitely not going. I'd like to go, but anyway, we just met Miss World |
| 1:17.3 | and her sick DeLorean. Man, I hope you get to ride in it. I could use a win, especially with my |
| 1:22.5 | dad on me about girls in St. John's. Act two. Interior Dizzy's room, morning. |
| 1:29.5 | Sun streams in, pee awakens, |
| 1:31.7 | top bunk, alone in the room. |
| 1:33.8 | He listens. Nothing. |
| 1:35.8 | He quietly slips the yearbook from under his pillow. |
| 1:38.8 | A Kleeneck sticks out, a makeshift bookmark. |
| 1:42.1 | He opens to Beck smiling with the butterfly. |
| 1:44.8 | He gazes fondly. |
| 1:46.3 | He glances at the DeLorean poster on the wall, then back to Bex. |
| 1:50.5 | He trials different ways to ask her the big question. |
| 1:54.1 | Do you want to go to the dance with me? |
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