Brick Theater

After a sold out run, My Name is Gideon: I’m Probably Going to Die, Eventually, returns to NYC for a limited engagement November 30th through December 15th, 2018 at the Brick Theater  (579 Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn).  The show is being mounted with additional material - new songs, new stories and new surprises

Gideon is an unconventional theatrical home-show performer who has been biking, rollerblading, and driving from one town to the next for the past six years, performing and residing in the homes of perfect strangers in nine countries.  Gideon will continue to invite audiences into his own living room on the NY stage, bringing them “Stove Top Folk” – his unique blend of songs, stories, and underwater levitation, jam-packed with curiosities and surprises. The instruments are eclectic, the stories are astonishing, and the spell he casts transports you out of this world.

Tickets are $25 and can be purchased by visiting https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/122/1543640400000 or calling (866) 811- 4111. There will be a number of $10 tickets subject to availability.

The playing schedule for My Name Is Gideon: I’m Probably Going To Die, Eventually is as follows:  Wednesdays through Saturdays at 7PM and Sundays at 4PM through December 15th.

 

On the Internet everyone can hear you scream.

What happens when it's your job to be friends with someone? When do you compromise artistic integrity for cash? Two Internet personalities skyrocket to stardom with a new “Let’s Play” video game show. But when a female gamer joins them, things get ugly. And then even uglier.

Let’s Play Play is about selling out, and how we use Internet personalities as replacements for real friends. It also embodies the infamously horrifying vitriol of YouTube comments.

Part of the 2015 Game Play festival.

PRAISE FOR LET'S PLAY PLAY

"Let's Play Play deals nicely with this IRL/URL tug-of-war, something to think about the next time you try to have an opinion on the internet." - Liz Richards, Indie Theater Now

 

Music by: Greencard Wedding and David Anzuelo


Featuring: Michael De Roos, Jody Christopherson, Homa Hynes and David Anzuelo (on video).


Sound Design: Natalie Johnsonius Neubert


Lighting Design: Derek Wright 


Video Design and Editing: Jody Christopherson 


Video Music Sound Mixing: Alexandre Perez, Brokenland Studios

After a successful run in The New York International Fringe Festival, The Skype Show is back, bigger and bolder than ever before with more music, new surprises and the same Frisian Wedding cake for everyone.

In November of 2010, Jody Christopherson and Michael de Roos formed the indie-folk-beatbox-rock band Greencard Wedding in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. In December of 2012, Michael's visa ran out. He moved back to Holland and Jody and Michael discovered they couldn't harmonize via Skype. But they could write a play. And music. . . and maybe get an artist visa. This transmedia musical is an exploration of the ways technology can enable us to transcend boundaries, uniting artists with each other and their audience. (Performed in English.)

Critics Pick: Time Out New York Gives The Skype Show 4 Stars!

“Keeps you on the edge of your seat, and yields a poignant statement about government support for artists in America. With not much more than a desk and a few scattered props—and highly original music from their band, Greencard Wedding, that blends dubstep beat-boxing with folk guitar and vocals—The Skype Show provides just the kind of experience you hope for . . . Christopherson and De Roos are talents to watch, not to mention a pleasure to hear.” —Derek Smith, Time Out New York

“David Anzuelo. . . is a one-of-a-kind, 1000-watt light bulb aiming straight for your heart.”—Kimberly Pau, Cultural Capitol

“The show definitely has legs and I have no doubt it will continue to charm audiences in the future.”—Zouch Magazine

90 minutes

APAP Previews: January 11 & 12, 2pm


Designed and directed by Ian W. Hill

Assisted by Berit Johnson

Performed by Alyssa Simon* and Anna Stefanic

*Appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association

In a United States, several decades hence, that seems to be operating in the manner and structure of a banana republic, Lady Stefanie Anderssen, a famous, wealthy pianist and outspoken liberal, is visited a dozen times over as many weeks by Colonel Simonette Allyson, representative of a leftist military faction bent on a coup, to see where she will stand in the upcoming revolution. As the visits progress, becoming more and more frequent and desperate (and partly hallucinated), their emotional, social, and psychic roles begin to meld, split, fight, and switch in a personal war that mirrors the external one simmering behind the opulent walls of Lady Anderssen's crimson public drawing room, both wars moving, inevitably, towards violence and death.

Purchase is a social study in the form of a character study, continuing and building on the form of Mr. Hill's recent plays, with a tighter, constrained focus on character here reminiscent of Genet's The Maids, Bergman's Persona, Fassbinder's The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, and the plays of Sarah Kane (with maybe a little bit of Sleuth). At the same time, it retains the qualities that Hill has admired in the films of Ken Russell, Nicolas Roeg, Peter Greenaway, and Michael Powell, transforming them into his own theatrical blend of gaudy visuals, vulgar emotions, obscure pop/rock music, dense wordplay, rigid structure, and dreamlike tonalities.

Purchase is an intellectual exercise embodied in the physical, the mind/body problem made present in light, sound, word, and flesh.

In one act with no intermission. Approximately 100 minutes.

Originated in 2006 by Daniel Allen Nelson and Shannon Sindelar of the Ontological and Michael Gardner, co-founder of The Brick Theater. With curation by Ian W. Hill, The Brick presents a tiny performance festival six feet long.  In a conglomeration of theater, dance, and artistry, performers present a variety of stories and scenic elements all existing in a 6′ x 6′ x 6′ space. Some people prefer their theater outside of the box, The Brick likes to give you a choice.

 

November 1, 2013 at 7:00pm and 9:00pm.

November 2, 2013 at 7:00pm and 9:00pm.

Tickets: $18

The Konami Atari Alliance of Eden 3 is under attack by evil Queen Bowsera. Their only hope lies with a ragtag band of earthlings, each plucked out of their own time, each chosen for their unique gaming skills. They all had big dreams, but they never dreamed they’d become the Final Defenders.The Last Starfighter meets Galaxy Quest in an outerspace adventure that’s fun for all ages.

As If It Were The Last Time is a subtlemob about celebrating the present, about home, belonging and loss. A snapshot of the world around you, a chance to savour the moment, and make new connections with the people and the place surrounding you. This is no requiem, this a celebratory slow dance, a chance to savour the world you live in, and to see it with fresh eyes.

What is a subtlemob?

A subtlemob is an invisible flashmob, it integrates with the beauty of the everyday world, so only its participants are aware of it. It's like walking through a film, experienced on headphones, performed by you and hundreds of strangers. Armed with only an mp3 player, mixture of narrative and richly textured music fills your ears, sometimes you'll just be watching, sometimes you'll be following instructions. There's nothing embarrassing or dangerous, you're almost just playing yourself.

There is no venue, there are no ushers, this is a performance organised and owned by you . . .

try to remain invisible.

The piece is free takes place in a secret Brooklyn location. Register at http://wearecircumstance.com/newyork.html

 

Music and text by Duncan Speakman and Sarah Anderson

“..deliberate slap in the face to the flashmob phenomena . . . it reshapes the cultural landscape.” — Paul Currion

“a welcome taste of transmedia storytelling” — Aesthetica Magazine

“Capricious and profound, the experience definitely captures what it is to escape from the world for a little bit – and then to return and find that you see things just a bit differently ” — The Londonist

“true augmented reality, and I want to take my friends and loved ones back there with me. It hurts that I can’t. But that’s kind of what being is, isn’t it?”—Hannah Nicklin

35mins

This is an overview of the basic functions of show control with QLab 2. This includes sound file playback for two channels and multiple channels, MIDI communication and video.

QLab is an essential tool for sound designers and stage managers.

from the QLab website: “QLab allows you to control audio, video, and MIDI from a single workspace. The basic version of QLab is free and provides a powerful audio playback environment. For advanced users, licenses are available to enhance the audio features, as well as to add video and MIDI functionality.”

Director & Designer Ryan Holsopple of 31 Down was nominated for a 2011 Hewes Design Award for the sound design of 31 Down's Here At Home. 31 Down received a Best Of New York 2007 award by the Village Voice for the interactive telephone murder mystery, Canal Street Station, a free public art installation.

This play is an exploration of the darker side of human nature and a vivid journey through the afterlife. It blends live sound design and video art with storytelling, movement and large-scale puppetry to create a completely immersive experience.

You are Dante, and Virgil is your guide through this hellscape of lost souls, terrifying beasts and otherworldly lands. This is unlike anything you've seen on stage before.

Performance Dates:

Saturday June 8th @ 7pm

Wednesday June 12th @ 7pm

Sunday June 16th @ 4pm

Tuesday June 18th @7pm

Thursday June 27th @ 9pm

 

See a short preview of this and other festival productions on Friday, June 7th at The Brick sound scape festival cabaret.

The Brick is located at 579 Metropolitan Ave in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Tickets can be purchased online at bricktheater.com or at the door.

About the Company: Submerge

The purpose of Submerge is to create hyper-modern theatrical experiences through the combination of all art forms and the use of performance technology. We strive to provide lasting impact on audiences and communities by addressing and confronting the most vital of issues in a profound and provocative way. Our collaborators are an expanding group of the most forward thinking artists, performers and designers who all share a desire to revitalize theatre as a total art form for the new era.

Join us for the FREE sound scape Opening Night Preview Cabaret & Party!
IT'S FREE! You don't want to miss it. Reserve your spot by clicking on the buy tickets link below, or tix will be available at the door (please show up early, we often sell out!).

Join us afterwards for the party if you can't make the cabaret!

April 13 – 30, 2013

Music, book and lyrics by Robert Honeywell
Directed by Leah Bonvissuto
Music direction by Maria Dessena
Set design by Lianne Arnold
Lighting design by Joe Levasseur
Video design by Daniel McKleinfeld
Sound design by Emma Wilk
Costume design by Iracel Rivero
Choreography by Sarah Doudna
Special effects by Stephanie Cox-Williams and Melissa Roth
Assistant Dir. & Stage Management by Raffaela Vergata

Featuring: Esther Crow, Rebecca Gray Davis, Melissa DeLancey, Kaitlan Emery, Amanda LaPergola, Tracy Shar, Phoebe Silva,* and Moira Stone*

And the band of: Derek Davidson, Maria Dessena, Ryan Ferreira, Michael Rafalowich and Sparkie Sandler

*Appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association

How far is too far in love and art? Pissing on a museum sculpture to make a statement? Mutilating yourself, or your lover, as performance art? Two girlfriends test their boundaries in a modern retelling of the tortured relationship of van Gogh and Gaugin. Set in 2015-2018 in New York, Vancouver and Shanghai, Mass is a new musical featuring an all-female cast accompanied by a live rock band.

Tues & Thurs–Sat @ 8 pm; Sun @ 3 pm

$18 ($10 for previews on Apr 13, 14, 16, 18)

Milla doesn't leave the motel room. It's scary out there. But when the agents come knocking and her neighbor starts screaming and there's no where to get a bite of a crisp clean apple Milla begins to move.

About the Company: The Brick Theater

The Brick Theater, Inc. is a not-for-profit theater company dedicated to nurturing the work of emerging artists at its performance space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn - The Brick. The Brick presents world premieres, monthly performance series and seasonal festivals, expanding Williamsburg's profile as a destination for cutting-edge art and entertainment. The Brick continues to seek new artists and projects, to provide them with a creative home and to serve as Williamsburg's primary incubator of innovative theater arts.

 

Dogs of Oklahoma is a live-streaming radio drama series performed for a live theater audience.

“One of the most fun shows I’ve seen in the past three years…I just need to find the patience to wait for the next episode.”
NYTheatre.com

In the summer of 1919, Rob Gehry returns home from WWI to find that his family no longer lives on the Oklahoma farm where he was born…and no one knows where they are.

Down the road, Clyde Williamson comes back home after a string of successful bank robberies, only to be kicked out by his wife Caroline.

Two years later, Clyde’s older son Van meets Rob at the train Station. Friends since childhood, Van is ready to welcome Rob back like a member of the family. But Rob has changed. He’s keeping secrets. And one of the few possessions he brought back to Oklahoma is a fantastic death machine few people have seen before: a new invention called the Thompson Submachine Gun.

Featuring Jed Peterson, Jerry Richardson, Sean Mellott, Bill Weeden, Julia Christgau, Laurie Schroeder, Philip Callen, Matt Clevy, Brett Aresco, & James B. Kennedy

Live music by Christopher Paul Stelling

Foley art by Jean Ann Douglas

About the Company: The Brick Theater

The Brick Theater, Inc. is a not-for-profit theater company dedicated to nurturing the work of emerging artists at its performance space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn - The Brick. The Brick presents world premieres, monthly performance series and seasonal festivals, expanding Williamsburg's profile as a destination for cutting-edge art and entertainment. The Brick continues to seek new artists and projects, to provide them with a creative home and to serve as Williamsburg's primary incubator of innovative theater arts.

 

About the Company: The Brick Theater

The Brick Theater, Inc. is a not-for-profit theater company dedicated to nurturing the work of emerging artists at its performance space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn - The Brick. The Brick presents world premieres, monthly performance series and seasonal festivals, expanding Williamsburg's profile as a destination for cutting-edge art and entertainment. The Brick continues to seek new artists and projects, to provide them with a creative home and to serve as Williamsburg's primary incubator of innovative theater arts.

 Jeff and Buttons have TONS of new material and now they have their own show so this should be a cinch. Their comedy harkens back to the golden age of Vaudeville (1925-late 1925) with updated and reworked laughs. Their new PoMoVau show Neon Lights is all you need to know about Vaudeville and ol' timey crack 'em ups. They're also idiots. 

About the Company: The Brick Theater

The Brick Theater, Inc. is a not-for-profit theater company dedicated to nurturing the work of emerging artists at its performance space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn - The Brick. The Brick presents world premieres, monthly performance series and seasonal festivals, expanding Williamsburg's profile as a destination for cutting-edge art and entertainment. The Brick continues to seek new artists and projects, to provide them with a creative home and to serve as Williamsburg's primary incubator of innovative theater arts.

part of THE COLLISIONWORKS 2011: AT THE ENDS (3 Terminal Plays)

Two one-act plays:

Antrobus

At the end of the world, or soon after, or soon before, as the ice rises and the food grows scarce, the six members of a “family” that has banded together for survival begin to turn on each other as the years of hardship, cabin fever, and resentment catch up with them, and neither the old or young members of the family are sure what to do next: stay still and avoid risk, or move forward and search for other people and ways of living in a changed world. The one thing they have to hold onto are the pages of a thick history book, telling the story of how the world came apart, which mysteriously comes apart itself every night and must be ritually restored, every single day . . .

Gone

At the end of a life, two dear old friends sit at a cafe table and reminisce. One of them will not be leaving. But before that, and before, during and after night falls, they will share, argue, debate, and discuss the details of their shared and separate lives, in a form of the English language that is nearly unrecognizable, made of almost nothing but portmanteau words and echoes of familiar sounds. But these sounds may become understandable and meaningful, if you really listen to them. But be careful how close you listen, as the pain is never far away.

 

Hey! You there, with the tweezers, gingerly opening a sealed plastic bag in order to store a mint-condition copy of Savage She-Hulk #1! Frankly, we’re getting a little worried. This climate-controlled basement is nice and everything, but you need to get out. You need food. Some fresh air. Perhaps an evening featuring attractive young performers dressing up as familiar comic-book characters, then getting undressed on stage. What you need, friend, is some NERDLESQUE.

On June 11, a hot bevy of geeks and other social misfits will explore the sexier side of comic book culture through the medium of burlesque. Power up the Blackbird, hop onto your Silver Surfboard, leap into your Owlship, and come experience the tantalizing geekfest that is NERDLESQUE.

Featuring: Our headliner, Mary Cyn!

and

Dr. Fluxxx

Dangrrr Doll

Hazel Honeysuckle

Ginny Gems

Ricky

With your ever-gracious hosts,

Makin’ Whoopie and Dick E. Lovejoy

NOTA BENE:

Nerdlesque will be followed by multiple games of

STRIP PICTIONARY

Some are allowed names.  Some, only roles.  In Colleen’s family, she is The Sister.
The role of The Sister is clear: Take abuse. Work the machine. And if you're really bad?
You might have to wear the dog collar.

 

The Sister marks the first collaboration between emerging playwright Eric John Meyer (Not Winehouse, The Bowery Poetry Club; The Truck Project's 2010 Artist in Transit) and director Jess Chayes of The Assembly (Horse Trade Resident Theater Company 2009-2010; Clementine and the Cyber Ducks, The Ontological-Hysteric Theater). Find out more about them at their websites: www.ericjohnmeyer.com, www.jesschayes.com

Written by Eric John Meyer, Directed by Jess Chayes
Performed by Ben Beckley, Nathaniel Kent, Kate Michaud and Jessica Pohly

Part of Fight Fest at The Brick

www.bricktheater.com/fightfest

Everyone knows about the Three Kings and their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh, but not so many people know about the adventures they had on their way to the manger. Bethlehem or Bust, Piper McKenzie’s first-ever family show, envisions the Wise Men as swashbucklers on an action-packed journey where they need to brave all sorts of robbers, monsters, Roman soldiers – and the occasional shepherd – on their way to meet one of history’s most famous babies. (Great for kids age 7 and up!)

Part of Fight Fest at The Brick

www.bricktheater.com/fightfest

The story of the Payaso-Gumi (The Clown Yakuza) and the epic battle that ended the war and began the journey. The play incorporates storytelling, dance, stage combat and classical clowning to tell a fast-paced tale of grudges, battles and slapstick. Costumed to accurately portray the tribal history of Jesters, Harlequins, and Augustes, BANDAGE dares to ask the question -- “What happens when clowns go bad?”

Laboratory Theater’s newest work is a meditative, cowboy dance-drama about the spiritual imprint of the windswept landscape of the American west. In an impressionistic narrative drawn from a variety of sources, two outlaws on the trail of an old adversary take work as jewel thieves for a washed up brothel madam. In a chance encounter with a traveling magician, they locate their enemy and conjure the violent forces of nature through sex-magic to take revenge.

Directed by Yvan Greenberg, and featuring Corey Dargel, Sheila Donovan, Oleg Dubson, and Wil Smith, GIT ALONG LIL DOGGIES commingles elements of William S. Burroughs’ novel “The Place of Dead Roads”, with short stories by Annie Proulx, country-western line dance, and gay pornography. The performance unfolds against a projected video landscape of repainted Marlboro cigarette TV commercials and within an immersive soundscape incorporating country-western recordings from the 1920’s–30’s and contemporary new age music for pedal steel guitar.

Laboratory Theater’s signature layering of choreography, text, sound, improvisation, and imitation, provides a continuously shifting framework for a reconsideration of the outlaw, frontier spirit that continues to shape the mindsets of Americans in the 21st Century.

France, 1633-1634 – The city of Loudon, unlike most of the country, is at peace. While religious wars swept the country and kept the Protestants and the Catholics at each others’ throats, the sects live and have lived together without incident in the city for years, primarily due to the charismatic priest Father Urbain Grandier, who acts as a kind of second Governor of the town, loved and respected (despite his frequent and well-known personal transgressions, mostly involving the women of Loudon), but also due to its secure battlements, which keep the city separate and self-sustaining (and whose security has been guaranteed by King Louis the XIII).

 

Cardinal Richelieu, in Paris, seeking to unify the State and the Catholic Church and have complete control of the country under both, despises Loudon’s independence, but with the popular and connected Grandier, and the King’s promise, he cannot take the city’s walls down and gain control. Until a convent of Ursuline nuns in Loudon suddenly begins exhibiting signs of demonic possession and claiming Grandier as an agent of Hell – a story which no one believes, but has power anyway – and a narrative is set in motion which can only end in madness, violence, hysteria, torture, exorcisms, chaos, destruction, and an execution.

 

And this is all a true story.

 

This production of John Whiting’s classic 1960 play, The Devils, remains faithful to Whiting’s text and vision while combining elements of both his source text, Aldous Huxley’s 1952 book The Devils of Loudon, and also Ken Russell’s intense, brilliant, and still deeply controversial 1971 film of the play to create a wider image of the societal and personal forces that combine to use religion as a political club and irrational thought to destroy reason as a man and city are eliminated through a lie that no one believes, but all must obey. 23 actors in a small space create a seething, fast-moving portrait of all aspects and classes of a society that come together to create a horrible event, combining the intensity and stomach-churning aspects of the Russell film with a breadth and scope more often found in the work of Robert Altman. A mix of the darkly comic and deeply horrific, Devils is a stew of the beautiful and human mixed with the repulsive and inhumane.

 

 NOTE: This play contains nudity, sexuality, extreme violence and torture, among other potentially disturbing elements. Not for children or people of sensitive natures.

About the Company: The Brick Theater

The Brick Theater, Inc. is a not-for-profit theater company dedicated to nurturing the work of emerging artists at its performance space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn - The Brick. The Brick presents world premieres, monthly performance series and seasonal festivals, expanding Williamsburg's profile as a destination for cutting-edge art and entertainment. The Brick continues to seek new artists and projects, to provide them with a creative home and to serve as Williamsburg's primary incubator of innovative theater arts.

Is art playable? Are video games cinematic? Is machinima theatrical? Are smartphones a stage? Is there an architecture that connects these diverse media forms? What boundaries can be broken within (and without) the walls of an Off-Off Broadway Theater to change your view? With the increasing maturity of the modern video game, the possibilities for multi-media cross-over artworks cry out to be explored. 

Boot up your think pad, open your horizon expansion application and prepare to log in to The Brick’s GAME PLAY: A CELEBRATION OF VIDEO GAME PERFORMANCE ART

Game Play explores the collision of technology, theater, performance art, and video game culture by staging the collaborative work of performance and media artists across the digital spectrum.

For more information about game play presentations and performances, please visit www.bricktheater.com/gameplay.

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GAME PLAY PRESENTATIONS

GAME PARTY NIGHTS! (FREE–$7)
Opening Night Preview Cabaret & Party—July 9, 8pm, FREE!
Featuring “Real World Instant Messaging” by artist Kurt Bigenho. www.unfinished.com

Rock Band Karaoke Night—July 16, 11pm, $5
Play Rock Band in a theater! Karaoke-style!

Babycastles—July 17, 11pm, $7
With playable local video games by NY game designers. www.babycastles.com

Chiptunes Dance Party—July 24, 11pm, $5
Party to 1980s/’90s video game–inspired Chiptunes with Video-Game Projections!

 

VIDEO GAME PERFORMANCES! ($15)

Grand Theft Ovid
Sat July 10, 3pm; Sun July 11, 4:30pm; Wed July 14, 7pm; Sat July 17, 5pm; Sun July 18, 2pm; Thurs July 22, 7pm; Sat July 24, 7pm; Sun July 25, 5pm

Kewl-Aid Man in Second Life
www.koolaidmaninsecondlife.com
Sat July 10, 10pm

Modal Kombat
www.modalkombat.com
Sat July 10, 8pm; Fri July 16, 9pm; Sat July 17, 2pm; Thurs July 22, 9pm; Sat July 24, 9pm

A Short Lecture of a Different Time
www.8bithistorian.com
Sun July 11, 2pm; Thurs July 15, 7pm; Tuesday July 20, 8pm; Fri July 23, 7pm; Sat July 24, 2pm

Theater of the Arcade: Five Classic Video Games Adapted for the Stage
Tues July 13, 8pm; Thurs July 15, 9pm; Fri July 16, 7pm; Sat July 17, 7pm; Sun July 18, 7pm; Wed July 21, 8pm; Fri July 23, 9pm; Sun July 25, 2pm

 

ONGOING GAME INSTALLATIONS!

Chess
www.eriksanner.com

The Wrench
www.knifeandfork.org

Grand Theft Ovid

 Eddie Kim returns to the Brick to present tales from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, utilizing his distinctive style of digital puppetry. Characters from World of Warcraft, Halo 3, and Grand Theft Auto 4, among other games, will be projected on a large screen in front of an audience and manipulated by gamers. They will be linked to each other and to others over the internet to play out Ovid’s stories, including “Niobe”; “Daedalus and Icarus”; and “Apollo and Daphne.” A follow-up to last year’s “Thank You, but Our Princess Is in Another Castle,” which Theateronline.com described as a “’60s happening for the digital age,” and Hemispheres Magazine called “an act of 21st century puppetry.” With a new translation of stories by Carrie Thomas and featuring music by Oxygenstar, Eddie Kim’s newest machinima piece uses more game systems and more games. Watch as classical stories are fleshed out in pixels and given life in worlds usually inhabited by night elves, aliens, and dirty cops. 

 

 

 

A Short Lecture of a Different Time

Come and hear the story of the OLDVERSE: the universe before this one, long dead and gone. Two lovers meet and soon discover the truth about their existence: their universe is dying, burning up into flames. Told by the Historian, a mysterious corduroy-clad stranger, this show asks the questions: How do you stop the unstoppable? How do you face the inevitable? A combination of Nintendo graphics, Game Boy music, and theoretical physics; acclaimed theatre creator Karim Muasher single-handedly creates an 8-bit universe of wit and wonder.

www.8bithistorian.com 

 

Sun July 11, 2pm 

Thurs July 15, 7pm 

Tuesday July 20, 8pm 

Fri July 23, 7pm 

Sat July 24, 2pm

 

About the Company: The Brick Theater

The Brick Theater, Inc. is a not-for-profit theater company dedicated to nurturing the work of emerging artists at its performance space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn - The Brick. The Brick presents world premieres, monthly performance series and seasonal festivals, expanding Williamsburg's profile as a destination for cutting-edge art and entertainment. The Brick continues to seek new artists and projects, to provide them with a creative home and to serve as Williamsburg's primary incubator of innovative theater arts.

Redbeard & Domicella is presented as part of theToo Soon Festival at The Brick (575 Metropolitan Avenue between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street, Brooklyn).

In Redbeard & Domicella, two high school sweethearts deliver a bold retrospective of their young marriage in “he said, she said” fashion. The witty, irrepressible Redbeard works in a bicycle shop near Brighton Beach; the slightly-built, titanic-hearted Domicella splits her time between a desk at the District Attorney’s Office, and the kitchen table where she writes. The play speaks (too soon?) about instances of loss as disparate as September 11th and Michael Jackson’s death, as well as Domicella’s own close scrape on the wild streets of New York.

Redbeard & Domicella is a true story. “If I were to write a book about us,” the real Redbeard told the real Domicella, “I would call it, The Old Man and the Noise.” And so the noise set out to write the story of the old man and the noise, using things they said and things they overheard. This is an ode between man and wife, a collage of quotes, iconic objects and memories. It is also a celebration of the bicycle, a symbol of survival in a city that suffers hard but laughs harder.

 

Hope Cartelli from Piper McKenzie and Eric Bland from Old Kent Road Theater join forces to present the world premiere of Jeannine’s Abortion: A Play in One Trimester, a Hope and Eric Experiment, which follows Jeannine and several of her peers over three months in New York City, during which time they exist with one another and Jeannine has an abortion.   

Casting features Siobhan Doherty, Sarah Engelke, Morgan Anne Zipf, Jeff Lewonczyk, and Emily Perkins.

What if you could choose your own "ending"?  With the help of a highly skilled Death Agent, you can!  And after you buy the farm, a “Corpsetologist” will make you look like your favorite celebrity. These and other death-dealing characters await you in Esther Crow’s one-woman variety show, DEATH IS A SCREAM. Chock full of gallows humor and “untimely” music, this show will take you by surprise. Kinda like death itself.

 

 

THE BRICK THEATER, INC.  IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE PLASTIC FLAMINGO THEATRE CO. PRESENTS RIP JD: A CELEBRATION OF DEATH AS PART OF THE TOO SOON FESTIVAL JUNE 4-27 @ THE BRICK!

RIP JD: A Celebration of Death is a timely exploration of cult figure and author JD Salinger. This fast paced ensemble driven comedy probes the mystery associated with the man and his art. Through homage, meditation, and mockery, this provocative collage asks who really owns art - its creator or its audience?

Featuring: Erin Austin*, John Bixler*, Lauren Connolly, Alex Kaplan, Katie McClellan, Randall Pollard*, Ariana Shore, Jonathan Cody White.  *Appearing Courtesy of the Actor’s Equity Association

About the Company: Plastic Flamingo Theatre Company

The artists of the Plastic Flamingo Theatre Company strive to capture our generation and time with provocative, original, and spirited theatre.

We’re dedicated to —

• Developing and producing new works that rue and relish today.
• Providing educational opportunities that cultivate the artistic development of our contemporaries.
• Creating theater that’s affordable and accessible.
• Encouraging our multi-faceted artistic growth through all aspects of production, design, music, and literature.
   

Expect humor, heart, and occasional audacity.

  The Brick Theater, Inc. and The Mad Ones present

Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War

"Broadcasting live from the Victory Theater in downtown Irkutsk, it's The at Home Field Guide, brought to you by 
Soviet Free Radio Order. Today your hosts buck the chaos and mounting panic to bring you an American story of first 
love and first heartbreak, along with the musical stylings of Alexei ‘Tumbleweed’ Petrovya. Tune in, take heart--and be 
careful out there, friends."

In an alternate global history, the cold war was decided not by détente, not by nuclear holocaust, but by massive 
robot invasion. Among the survivors, a team of Russian radio hosts, warmed to a lost culture of 1950s Americana, 
broadcast a story of brothers’ love drawn straight from the American heartland. Samuel and Alasdair: A Personal 
History of the Robot War combines 1950s radio drama, vintage country music, and Soviet science for a look back in 
time and forward to what's next.

Featuring Marc Bovino*, Joe Curnutte*, Michael Dalto and Stephanie Wright Thompson* 

You’re Welcome is a collection of 5 small plays about creation and failure; a unified theatrical myth that tells the story
of an invented band of performers and their catastrophic attempts at connection. The plays are also about love, death,
desire, tragedy, comedy, drunk driving, sexiness, beauty, loss, the battle between good and evil, a baby born wearing
a hat. And theater. They're about theater. Kind of the last word on theater. This is You’re Welcome - 5 plays that
pretty much nail it. You’re welcome.

Featuring Hannah Bos*, Michael Cyril Creighton* and Paul Thureen
Written by Paul Thureen and Hannah Bos*
Directed and developed by Oliver Butler

Costume Design - Sydney Maresca, Lighting Design - Mike Riggs, Sound Design - Nathan Leigh
 

Video games as digital puppetry. Technicians will use several xbox 360 consoles and laptops linked to each other in the venue and to others over the internet to control digital characters in real-time in front of an audience.

Halo3 and World of Warcraft, among other games, will be used to tell the stories of Niobe and the Japanese poet, Ono no Komachi. A digital movement piece and a version of Alvin Lucier's "I am sitting in a Room" also will be presented.
 

From the company that brought you the award-winning Bouffon Glass Menajoree comes a surreal, dark, comic look at one Minnesotan couple’s struggle to find companionship, sympathy, and the L-word. ...and the fear cracked open. incorporates film, puppetry, mask-work, animation, physical comedy and musical composition. Button up! The ‘Minnesota Nice’ is more bitter than the snowy winds that blow.

Featuring Lynn Berg, Becky Byers, Audrey Crabtree, and Gavin Starr Kendall. Live music by Sarah Engelke. Costumes by Karen Flood. Puppet design by Kate Brehm. Animation by Jonathan Kaplan. Film by Andy Ritchie. Lights by Ian W. Hill and Berit Johnson.

“Audrey Crabtree and Lynn Berg have crafted a fresh and witty telling of the making and unmaking of a love affair. The meta-theatrics slyly inform a production that explores just how surreal love can be.”
-City Pages, Minneapolis

“…and the fear cracked open. emerges intelligent and deliciously irreverent…”-Tammy Schulman, Pulse Minneapolis

www.AndTheFearCrackedOpen.com

Video promos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV73JN-LnEc 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bArLnh5Y9eo

 

 

A young girl asks her father, where do plastic surgeons come from? What follows is a fantastical romp through pre-civilized Europe, and the medieval art and science of nosemaking. Our hero is Gavin, a young orphan rescued from a dismal existence in the Ivanhoe Workhouse for Criminally Impoverished Boys when he is apprenticed with the local Nosemaker, and eventually becomes one of the finest surgeons in Vienna, cradle of quack medicine. Using innovative skin grafting techniques and cutting edge alchemy, Gavin and his master seek only to do the Work of the Almighty by restoring small appendages lost to rat bites, dueling, and syphilis. But when they are unable to help a powerful and mutilated knight recently returned from the crusades, they find their feet over the fire...literally. Hilarious, subversive, quasi-historical, and thoroughly debauched. . . a fated collaboration between two of New York's most innovative (and troubling) young talents.
 

Writer/Director Eric Bland, creator of The Children of Truffaut and Death at Film Forum (soon to be published in the NYTE anthology, Plays and Playwrights 2009), returns to The Brick with his latest opus. The Protestants uses the framework of a Methodist church service to chart a tragicomic year in the life of four weird brothers: one is a puppet, one wears a mask, one is a girl, and one grew a moustache.
 

Being the necessary and appropriate response to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's suppression of the freedoms and dignity of the European-American settlers and their descendants in the Royal Eastern American Colonies and the inordinate conferring of special favours and privileges on the merciless Indian savages and the former Negro slaves, in the year 2008! Hello, white people. It's just awful being under the thumb of the British. Ever since they slaughtered General Washington at the Battle of Brooklyn, handed our Southern plantations over to the slaves and restricted our settlements to the lands east of the Appalachians, we've had little to celebrate. But Lord Oxford feels your pain. Come to a live taping of Lord Oxford's Hour! where his faithful orphan sidekick Patty O'Pattycake and a merry band of Colonial actors will take your mind off the sorry state of the world through songs, skits and tableaux. Don't worry! Chin up! The Declaration of Independence will live again! In a musical that's Democracy in America meets Alice in Wonderland meets Cabaret, Robert Honeywell brings back many of his actor/collaborators from Every Play Ever Written ("Gleefully funny … a must-see for anyone who has been onstage" New York Times) and Greed: A Musical Love Story ("One of the best new musicals in town" nytheatre.com) in this bouffon-inspired, satire-laced political fantasia. Developed with acclaimed clown teacher Sue Morrison. Orchestrations and additional music by Matt Van Brink played live by an onstage band.

Material Girl and Turning Japanese performed on tuba, ukulele, trumpet, clarinet, accordion and spoons! If no one tells these clowns how stupid they are, they will continue to tour the world, imagining that they are, indeed, "The Coolest Band Ever!"
Inspiring Resilience or Obstinate Mediocrity? Come see them, and decide for yourself.
Presented by the 2nd Annual NY Clown Theatre Festival.

From the people that brought you the 1st clown theatre festival in New York in over 20 years, comes the 2nd Annual New York Clown Theatre Festival. We will be presenting over 20 main stage productions, several cabarets, and a series of lectures and workshops by some of the top clowning professionals in the world, including Sue Morrison (European and Native American Clowning Guru) and Giovanni Fusetti (renowned international clown teacher from Padua, Italy), among others.
The festival kicks off on October 5th with the Clown Subway Parade on the L Train from Manhattan to Williamsburg, culminating in a massive Pie-Fight and Cabaret at the Brick Theater! Later events will include a clown-v-clown smack down Clown Olympics and a bedlam-inducing beverage-imbibing Clown Bar Hop!

Where: the Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave. Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211

When: Festival begins on Friday, October 5 and runs through the 28th of October.

Cost: Shows are 12$, classes vary in price, and all events are absolutely FREE.

For more information visit www.bricktheater.com or our myspace page www.myspace.com/nyclowntheatrefestival

THE GARDEN PARTY written by Vaclav Havel
This absurdist drama portrays a young chess fanatic propelled into the business world by his conservative
father and neurotic mother, only to be immersed into a live challenge of corporate checkmate. Published in 1963, this was Havel's first full-length play. It is characteristic of the humanist literary movement that was on the rise in Prague.

The Festival honors the man, Vaclav Havel, on his 70th birthday. He has led a full life: as a playwright, the
former Czech Republic President, a literary leader, and a social/political activist. His name and writings,
banned by Communists in the 1970s, have become significant studies of the Czech oppression.

MISTAKE written by Vaclav Havel
Presented as the Pre-Show for The Garden Party during the Havel Festival
This opening short puppet play features prison mates in a "Punch & Judy" like conflict. Four prisoners
muddle their way through the daily ritual for a newcomer in the cellblock.

This world-class festival brings New York audiences critically acclaimed clown performances from Paris, the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, the United States, and more. With 23 mainstage productions, 19 one-night-only cabaret performances, and a series of lectures and workshops by some of the top clowning professionals around the world, The Brick Theater's New York Clown Theatre Festival takes their clowning around very seriously!

On Friday, September 1 at 5 PM New Yorkers are invited to get on the L train and ride to the Brooklyn Bedford stop. Volunteers will be handing out free clown noses at stations along the L train. Participants will get out at Bedford stop in Brooklyn, and march 10 blocks to The Brick Theater along with a marching band and over 100 Clowns! Once arriving at the Brick...participants can participate in a free and fun pie fight.

In addition to performances, the New York Clown Theatre Festival also hosts clown classes, workshops and lectures from some of the world's most prominent and renowned Master Clown Teachers, including Philippe Gaulier (Ecole Phillipe Gaulier, teacher of Ali G, Emma Thompson, Theatre du Complicite), David Shiner (Fool Moon, performer and Director for Cirque du Soleil), and Sue Morrison (European and Native American Clowning Guru) among others.

Bill Irwin leads a Celebrity Guest Panel where accomplished performers talk seriously about clowning. Other events include retrospective lectures on the history of Clown Theatre in North America; "WHY I HATE CLOWNS: The Reinstatement of the Sacred Clown"; "Stage to Silent Screen: Adapting the Clown to Film;" and a Mock Clown Panel (where a panel of Clowns get seriously ridiculous).

The New York Clown Theatre Festival features cabaret evenings on Thursdays at 10pm. These short clown-theatre pieces feature works by diverse artists such as Sean Edwards ('STOMP'), Gandhi (Gautham Prasad, Ringling Brothers Circus), Spatz Donovan (life-long circus
performer/showbiz chameleon who can impersonate 26 American film, radio and theatre funnymen.) and many others. For a list of cabaret performances, visit www.bricktheater.com.

MAINSTAGE SHOWS
RED BASTARD Performed by Eric Davis
Red Bastard is New York's King of Fools! This one-man buffoon show stars Red Bastard as a grotesque, yet disarmingly charming Bouffon, whose enormous ego is matched only be his colossal red ass.
Sat., Sept. 2 at 11 PM; Fri., Sept. 8 at 10:30 PM; Thurs., Sept. 21 at 9 PM

ABSENCE OF MAGIC Eric Davis
Eric Davis stars as a bone-thin cantankerous clown, whose neurotic endeavors run the gamut of comic expression. Wildly impish one moment, pathetically gutless the next, he answers the call to an epic adventure only to find himself stranded in a cave for 100,000 years.
Surrounded by the skeletons of failed attempts, he must now conquer a disembodied voice as this unlikely hero fends off monsters, struggles to make a name for himself and quests to find the Glove of Never Ending Awesomeness.
Thurs., Sept., 14 at 8:30 PM; Sat., Sept. 16 at 10 PM; Sun., Sept. 17 at 2:30 PM

I'M SORRY & I'M SORRY by The Candidatos
Part Marx Brothers, part Coen Brothers, part Cirque de Soleil, I'm Sorry & I'm Sorry employs physical comedy, evasive banter, acrobatic drunkenness, willful deception and no small amount of absurdity to tell the tale of a seasick sailor and his perfectly incompetent
crime.
Sat., Sept. 2 at 9 PM; Tues., Sept, 5 at 8:30 PM; Thurs., Sept. 21 at 7 PM;
Fri. Sept. 22 at 10 PM

CHICHE CAPON'S CABARET by Associates Les Nouveaux Gitans (FRANCE)
A show for kids lost in adult clothes, or adults who've kept point of view and sensibility of youngsters, this show presents a gallery of characters successively fragile, possessive, jealous, authoritarian, candid and magnanimous. In search of beauty and harmony, they're
looking for meaning to life and to time's race.
Sat., Sept. 2 at 5:30 PM; Sun., Sept. 3 at 8:45 PM; Wed., Sept. 6 at 8:30 PM;
Fri., Sept. 8 at 8:30 PM; Sat., Sept. 9 at 9:30 PM

KNOTT...MY BEST MOMENTS Performed by Erin Bouvey (CANADA)
A show that plumbs the depths of bafflement and soars to the heights of passion, Knott...My Best Moments is an adventure down the rickety tracks of pride and cowardice. It is about the scathing and salacious Flam St. Cyr. On the lam, out of food, and armed only with a sheepskin hat to protect her, she is poised to take on all the atrocities of our modern world - bad taste, apathetic diversions and seductive grapefruits.
Fri., Sept. 15 at 10 PM; Sat., Sept. 16 at 2:30 PM; Wed., Sept. 20 at 8:45 PM;
Sat., Sept. 23 at 6:30 PM

BOUFFON GLASS MENAGERIE by The Perfectly Touchables
Gentlemen callers beware: The Wingfields plume their nest with broken glass, twisted morals, and perverted minds. Each night a new audience member will get to play the role of Jim. Tom, Amanda, and Laura claim no responsibility for your hurt feelings or offended
sentiments. Tennessee Williams is spinning in his grave. Why would anyone do this to an American Masterpiece!
Fri. Sept. 15 at 11:30 PM; Sat., Sept. 16 at 11:30 PM; Sat., Sept. 23 at 9:30 PM

SINGER AND SAW by Sarah Worthinton and Nathan Carver
Singer and Saw combines the talents of a lyric soprano and clown-turned-musical-saw player. These two should never have met. But they have. The result is a unique vaudeville show that starts as a serious recital, ends in loving tribute and is interrupted by an
outrageous collection of saws.
Sat., Sept. 9 at 3:30 PM; Mon., Sept. 11 at 8:30 PM; Fri., Sept. 22 at 7 PM

BIG TIME by Peter Daniel Straus
A weird out-of-towner wanders onto a stage, accidentally becoming the reluctant star of his own show. An absurd and ridiculous exploration of theatricality and discovery.
Sat., Sept. 2 at 7:30 PM; Sat., Sept. 16 at 5:30 PM; Sat., Sept. 23 at 11 PM

CLOWNS Developed by Glass Contraption and Chris Bayes
Performed with great gusto and presentational chutzpah by a company of clowns who share a collective dream: to make a good and funny show, with great tragedy and triumph, that will knock your socks off, make you pee in your pants and break your heart all in one evening!
CLOWNS journeys through the watercolor landscape of the clown as five strange and beautiful creatures set out in search of their delight and the simplicity of stillness. With knee-knocking fear, but great hope, CLOWNS will bravely undertake this journey into the unknown.
The show is scored with original music and songs on accordion and viola.
Thurs., Sept. 14 at 7 PM; Fri., Sept. 15 AT 7 PM; Sat., Sept. 16 at 7 PM

HELP HELP I KNOW THIS TITLE IS LONG, BUT SOMEBODY'S TRYING TO KILL ME
written and performed by Drew Richardson
The show must go on - even when a suspicious character has eliminated the entire cast. When every entertainer in a vaudeville variety show is mysteriously dispatched, Drew the Dramatic Fool must take over every role in the production, from a 36-ball juggling act to the old saw-the-assistant-in-half trick. If he fails... let's just say that bad reviews can be murder.
Wed., Sept. 6 at 7 PM; Fri., Sept. 8 at 7 PM; Sun., Sept. 10 at 2:30 PM

FLAWED GENIOUS Written performed by Barnaby King (UNITED KINGDOM)
Charlie Chaplin meets Norma Desmond in Barnaby King's hilarious portrayal of a tragically repressed Englishman, who yearns for greatness amidst his own mediocrity. Accompanied by a magical piano, Flawed Genius tells a tale of unrequited love and burning ambition.
It is about that part of us that would like to take on the world and win. With a flair for improvisation, Barnaby King gives us a clown for the modern age and a must-see experience.
Sat., Sept. 9 at Midnight and 6:30 PM; Sun., Sept. 10 at 6:30 PM;
Mon., Sept. 11 at 7 PM; Fri., Sept. 15 at 8:30 PM

HACKI GINDA by Hackifun-produktions (GERMANY)
Hacki Ginda is a loud clown with a real affection for his audience. Although Hacki has a strong integrity with his motifs, his show is always filled with the element of surprise. Hackifun Produktions is highly physical comedy.
Sat., Sept. 9 at 2 PM; Sun., Sept. 10 at 1 PM and 8 PM, Mon., Sept. 11 at 10 PM

LAY DOWN AND LOVE ME AGAIN by James Howell (CANADA)
Kevin's mind is wandering. These meanderings become monologues about suicide with fried chicken in his fists, a preacher searching for "spiritual DNA", his mother bargain hunting for abortion clinics, sleeping with students while drinking alone, whispering fascist
flirtations to telephone operators and chasing his comatose father while enjoying fresh produce.
Tues., Sept. 5 at 7 PM; Thurs., Sept. 7 at 8:30 PM; Fri., Sept. 9 at 8 PM;
Sat., Sept. 10 at 9:30 PM

BY THE LIGHT OF THE PORCELEAN MOON by Michelle Seakamp
A visually stunning solo clown piece that explores solitude and the search for joy.
Sat., Sept. 2 at 4 PM; Sun., Sept. 3 at 7 PM; Mon., Sept. 4 at 8:30 PM

LADIES NIGHT
In Veni, Vidi, Vici, A sprightly buffoon, Mud seeks the perfect picnic spot and marks it with chalk, trapping herself inside its boundaries. Magic spells expand the territory. New acquisitions awaken a lust for more. Performed with Extraordinary Vacancy, a
short solo female clown piece about the illusion of love and the consumption of it. A dance with a coat, which leads to fight and a love affair with a whiskey bottle.
Thurs., Sept. 7 at 7 PM; Wed., Sept. 13 at 8:30 PM; Wed., Sept. 20 at 7 PM

A LIFE IN HER DAY by Hilary Chaplain
A Life In Her Day is a lifetime created in one day of a working world where everything is created out of everyday objects. A lamp becomes a man, paper towels become a baby, meals consist of marshmallows and nowballs and it all begins in a vertical bed where the audience has a bird's-eye view of the goings on.
Fri., Sept. 22 at 8:30 PM; Sat., Sept. 23 at 2:30 PM

FOOLS MASS by Theatre Group Dzieci
A motley group of medieval village idiots are forced to enact their own mass, due to the untimely death of their beloved Pastor, Fater Jerzy. Filled with buffoonery, comic audience participation and choral singing of sacred hymns from the 8th through the 17th centuries, Fools Mass travels from the ridiculous to the sublime.
Sun., Sept. 24 at 6 PM

PENELOPE AND PEPPER'S BIG SHOW By Gymstars Brooklyn
Penelope and Pepper arrive in a flurry to take you on an exciting variety show adventure including some friendly improv and audience participation.
Sat., Sept. 16 at 4 PM; Sat., Sept. 23 at 4 PM

THE AUDITION by Two Too Far
The General and Jasper face the opportunity of a lifetime an audition for clown search international ala American Idol. Throughout the ordeal of their audition they must overcome their own incompetence, their miscommunications and misinterpretations and mess-making mishaps.
Sat., Sept. 2 at 2:30 PM; Sun., Sept. 3 at 2:30 PM

Set in the fictional city of Monumenta, ADVENTURES OF CAVEMAN ROBOT creates a fully realized alternate reality on stage. After a punishing battle with the wildly unpredictable Ape Lincoln (a hulking ex-President from a strange simian dimension), Cavey and his minders Professor Tuttlwell and his niece Megan find themselves the focus of a master plot bringing together the cream of Monumenta's villainous talent pool, featuring such characters as Burn-Out (a former hippie turned flame-throwing rebel), Colonel 3headedspacepony (a Nazi SS officer whose brain has been transferred to the body of a penguin) and Cavey's arch-nemesis, Dr. John Zarathustra, D.D.S.

As the chaos mounts through song, dance, and video only the sad-sack everyman Loser Pete holds the power to save Cavey from a vicious fate!

A world where the leaders lie, cheat, steal and murder. A world where Art and Science and Beauty and Reason are no longer valued. A world where survival means selling out, and trying to do the "right thing" means failure as a human being. A familiar place? Yes, of course, it is the fictional, 1940's world of film noir, nothing like our own present world at all, right? Right? Or has noir come true, and we're all living in a world gone wrong?

Returning to The Brick by popular demand after a smash-hit run in The Moral Values Festival, World Gone Wrong is a film noir pastiche-play consisting of dialogue from almost two hundred noirs, as well as quotes from our current U.S. Administration and other pertinent sources, combined into an original spellbinding, semiabstract, dreamlike tale of corruption, betrayal,
and revenge.

Combining a cast of 21 in precision choreography, slides, and an entirely pre-recorded collage soundtrack, World Gone Wrong is a celebration of the ability to stay true to, and fight for, one's own convictions in a land where "moral values" is just a mask that hides greed, hatred, fear, backstabbing, and lies.

Here are some of "downtown art star" Tom X. Chao¹s not-so-dry short comedies! Angry nun throttles insensitive fusion bassist! Crazed tourist loves San Francisco indiscriminately! Police psychic and office manager solve mysteries while arguing about lunch! And more audience favorites! www.tomxchao.com (60 min)

From the writer/director of the critically acclaimed Jenna Is Nuts, which TimeOut called "brimming with energy," Françoise changes her mind is a total examination of "moral values" in the extreme‹extreme sex colliding with extreme religion. Two nerds who almost became a nun and a priest fall in love and get kinky, pushing their boundaries with a little bondage in a bathtub. When they spice it up with readings from Buddhism, Hinduism,
Christianity and Islam God's greatest hits the game-playing pushes buttons neither expected and threatens to spin out of control.

Part of the Moral Values Festival

The Brick Theater, Inc.'s second annual summer festival explores, exploits,
and exposes our country's "Moral Values"

After the overwhelming success of their summer 2004 Hell Festival, The Brick Theater, Inc. returns to breed more spiritual confusion with The Moral Values Festival, a performance festival
for the morally questionable, morally perverse and morally bankrupt.

MORAL VALUES FESTIVAL SCHEDULE OF SHOWS

The Absence of Magic Created by Eric Davis and Sue Morrison, Directed by Sue
Morrison and Performed by Eric Davis
Sundays, June 12, 19 and 26 at 7:00 PM
A cantankerous clown, whose neurotic endeavors run the gamut of comic
expression, answers the call to an epic adventure. Antics range from the
gut-busting ridiculous to the intimate and heart-felt as this unlikely hero
fends off monsters, struggles to make a name for himself and quests to find
the Glove of Never Ending Awesomeness. (75 min)

Brick-a-Brac
Sundays, June 5 and July 3 at 7:00 PM
The Brick¹s monthly variety extravaganza continues through the Festival with
two moral values-themed installments! In addition to an exciting roster of
strange and wonderful acts, each evening will feature a new episode of each
of the Brick Radio Players¹ ongoing serials, "Whispering Crystal Gossamer
Bayou" and "Horny & the Virgin" (2 hrs)

Coney Island Last Stop Written and directed by Michael Schwartz
Tuesday, June 21 at 8:30 PM' Friday, June 24 at 10:00 PM; Sunday, June 26 at
5:00 PM; Wednesday, June 29 at 8:15 PM
In this gritty, sexually provocative dark comedy, Jacob Katz is desperate to
become a non-virgin, but his secret physical deformity threatens to derail
his plans. Then, along with his friends, Tony, a streetwise dropout, and
Willy, who stutters and rhymes, Jacob meets Alminouchka, a new Russian
immigrant eager to do anything to be accepted. With furiously funny, poetic,
explosive, blue collar Brooklyn dialogue and physicality, these outcasts
discover the liberating and redemptive power of the imagination. (105 min)

Dear Dubya: Patriotic Love Letters to WHITEHOUSE.ORG Curated and written by
John A. Wooden, and Directed by R.J. Tolan
Sunday, June 5 at 5:45; Thursday, June 16 at 7 PM; Saturday, June 18 at 2:30
PM; Sunday, July 3 at 9:15 PM
From the web¹s most popular political parody comes a disturbingly hilarious
glimpse inside the mind of the dot-com era voter. Readings from
WHITEHOUSE.ORG¹s actual e-mail bag include outraged complaints confusing
absurdist satire with federal policy, bizarre mis-addressed letters to
President Bush, and stunningly vicious hate mail for the site's creators.
(45 min)

eleven Written and performed by Mikki Baloy and Directed by John DeVore
Tuesday, June 7 at 7:00 PM; Saturday, June 11 at 2:45 PM; Saturday, June 25
at 7:00 PM; Saturday, July 2 at 1:00 PM
Disaster response professional and theater artist Mikki Baloy presents
eleven, a one-woman performance piece that examines everyday life in New
York City post-9/11 through the voices of eleven ordinary people. Baloy
draws on professional expertise and personal experience to craft a diverse,
and unexpected, cast of characters. (60 min)

An Evening with Roberta Combs, President of the Christian Coalition,
conducting an earnest Q and A in a Brooklyn theatre festival, clarifying the
positions of the Christian right, and telling it like it is. For real!
Directed by Timothy Haskell and featuring Cathy McNelis, Rachelle Mendez,
Mark O'Connell
Saturday, June 4 at 8:30 PM; Wednesday, June 8 at 7:00 PM; Saturday, June 11
at 6:00 PM; Tuesday, June 14 at 7:00 PM; Saturday, June 18 at 4:45 PM;
Thursday, June 23 at 9:45 PM
In an earnest attempt to reach out to the non-Christian voter, Roberta
Combs, the president of the Christian Coalition, has agreed to participate
in a "Q and A" in hostile territory - a Brooklyn arts festival. To make
things interesting, she will be joined by the chief legal defense counselor
for the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders. The moderator will engage
the panelists in a lively discussion and then will open it up to the
audience. It will likely end badly.

A Feast Unknown Written and performed by Jason Robert Bell, Based on the
book by Philip Jose Farmer
Monday, June 6 at 7:00 PM; Thursday, June 16 at 8:00 PM; Saturday, June 18
at 5:45 PM; Thursday, June 30 at 7:00 PM; Saturday, July 2 at 7:00 PM;
Sunday, July 3 at 4:15 PM
A dramatic multi-media reading of by Philip José Farmer, "unreadable" sci-fi
action adventure porno classic. To be performed in 30 minute segments of the
book from start to finish with each reading starting with a wrap up of the
last segment and ending with a cliffhanger. (30 min)

Flat Created by Jason Schuler, Directed by Jason Schuler and Kourtney
Rutherford
Saturday, June 4 at 4:00 PM; Friday, June 10 at 9:00 PM; Monday June 13 at
7:00 PM; Sunday, June 19 at 8:30 PM; Wednesday, June 29 at 7:00 PM
Inspired by the BBC, Flat is a television programme brought to the stage. A
British family advertises a rental within their flat. Applicants are
interviewed and mysteriously disappear. Featuring a rotating cast of
tenants, a team of writers, and copious video, Flat explores the limits of
TV and the theater. (60 min)

The Fourth Reich Written and directed by Danny Bowes
Thursday, June 9 at 7:00 PM
Two estranged friends meet one fateful night in the early days of the second
George W. Bush administration to discuss war, politics, conspiracy theories,
the impotence of the modern media in the face of creeping tyranny, and love.
(75 min)

Françoise changes her mind (the things bondage can do) Written and directed
by Robert Honeywell
Friday, June 10 at 7:00 PM; Saturday, June 11 at 4:00 PM; Wednesday, June 15
at 8:45 PM; Sunday, June 19 at 2:15 PM; Monday, June 20 at 8:30 PM;
Saturday, June 25 at 1:00 PM
Bondage. Buddha. The Bible. The Koran. Don't forget Proust. Nerds in
love experiment in sex games with religious texts. An almost-a-nun and an
almost-a-priest fall in love and get kinky. But being tied to a shower while
force-fed world religion can do peculiar things. (105 min)

Freak Out under the Apple Tree: (Some of) The Best of Tom X. Chao Written,
directed and performed by Tom X. Chao
Friday, June 3 at 9:45 PM; Saturday, June 4 at 7:15 PM; Sunday, June 5 at
2:30 PM
The New York Times calls Tom X. Chao "a dryly funny downtown comedian."
Here are some of his not-so-dry short comedies! Angry nun throttles
insensitive fusion bassist! Crazed tourist loves San Francisco
indiscriminately! Police psychic and office manager solve mysteries while
arguing about lunch! And more audience favorites! (60 min)

I Found Her Tied to My Bed Written and directed by Jeff Tabnick
Saturday, June 4 at 1:00 PM; Sunday, June 5 at 4:00 PM; Monday, June 6 at
8:15 PM; Wednesday, June 8 at 8:00 PM; Friday, June 10 at 10:15 PM;
Saturday, June 11 at 8:30 PM
At Evergreen Manor Nursing Home, the hours are long, the staff is underpaid
and the occupants are easy to kill. When a reckless coworker intrudes upon
Beth¹s solitary life, Beth becomes infatuated and goes to extremes to
understand her. But understanding does not necessarily produce a healthy
relationship ‹sometimes it only produces corpses. (75 min)

It Came from New York Curated and hosted by Michele Carlo (aka Carmen
Mofongo)
Friday, June 3 at 11:00 PM; Saturday, June 11 at 7:00 PM; Sunday, June 12 at
8:30 PM; Tuesday, June 21 at 7:00 PM; Tuesday, June 28 at 9:30 PM; Saturday,
July 2 at 2:15 PM
Ever wonder what makes real New Yorkers tick? What gives us our unique edge?
What makes us crazier than any other humans on the planet? In just 75 New
York-minutes "It Came From New York" gives you a taste of what it's like to
actually be from the city where everyone thinks sin was invented. (75 min)

The Ladies Auxiliary Telephone Bee: Moral Values Edition
Thursday, June 9 at 8:30 PM
Performers call activists, specialists, and interested parties on all sides
of a common debate for live interviews. Kind of like a live version of
"Crank Yankers" for the politically minded! (90 min)

Lulu: A Peep Show Adapted and directed by Michael Gardner
Wednesday, June 8 at 9:30 PM; Saturday, June 11 at 1:00 PM; Monday, June 13
at 8:15 PM; Wednesday, June 15 at 7:00 PM; Friday, June 17 at 8:30 PM;
Saturday, June 25 at 5:15 PM
Taken from the Wedekind plays, Lulu is the latest in Michael Gardner's
continuing experiments in disquieting environmental theater. Adapted from
Frank Wedekind¹s rarely seen uncensored original (Pandora's Box: A Monster's
Tragedy), Lulu: A Peep Show sets the famous unabashed nymphet in her small,
curtained dressing room. There, she recreates herself for the pleasure of
her endless parade of lovers. (90 min)

Mahamudra (or Postconsumer Waste Recycled Paper) Written and performed by
Chris Harcum
Friday, June 3 at 8:30 PM; Monday, June 6 at 7:00 PM; Saturday, June 18 at
5:45 PM; Thursday, June 23 at 7:00 PM; Sunday, June 26 at 8:30 PM; Sunday,
July 3 at 3:00 PM
Chris Harcum's fifth solo performance! Roy, an unmerciful theatre critic on
a major power trip, is ordered to atone for his misdeeds in front of a live
audience. When he turns his razor-sharp analysis on himself, he unlocks an
imaginative world full of suspense and wonder. (30 min)

Misshapen Jack, the Nebraska Hunchback Written, directed and performed by
Trav SD
Saturday, June 4 at 10:45 PM; Sunday, June 12 at 2:15 PM; Friday, June 17 at
7:00 PM; Monday, June 20 at 7:00 PM; Thursday, June 23 at 8:15 PM; Saturday,
July 2 at 6:30 PM
Writer/performer Trav S.D. revives his hit of the 1998 NYC Fringe Festival,
a vaudevillian stump speech with songs, a slide show, and a deranged message
about mankind's greatest nemesis: Hunchbacks from Nebraska named Jack. (75
min)

Mr. Nobody Created and performed by Bidalia Albanese Hess, Steven Hess, Dan
Guarino, Jen Nevergole, Mathew Sandoval and deeAnn Nelson
Friday, June 3 at 7:00 PM' Saturday, June 4 at 2:30 PM; Sunday, June 5 at
1:00 PM; Saturday, June 11 at 10:00 PM; Sunday, June 12 at 5:30 PM; Tuesday,
June 14 at 8:00 PM
Mr. Nobody is a walking everyman embodying the creative, the violent and the
violently creative throughout time. Mr. Nobody and a group of the profoundly
grotesque will bring you to the nexus that is Violence and Art. (75 min)

My Year of Porn Written and Performed by Cole Kazdin and Directed by Ivanna
Cullinan
Saturday, June 4 at 9:30 PM, Sunday, June 12 at 1:00 PM; Thursday, June 16
at 9:15 PM; Saturday, June 16 at 9:15 PM; Saturday, June 18 at 7:00 PM;
Sunday, June 19 at 4:15 PM; Tuesday, June 28 at 7:00 PM
MY YEAR OF PORN is a one-woman comedy about a journalist's eye-opening
adventures, the year she produces a documentary on the porn industry.
Through storytelling and character monologues, she travels to porn sets,
backseats of trucks and a bizarre swingers club under train tracks in
downtown LA. (A brief "Porn Q & A" with the performer immediately follows
the performance.) (60 min)

Nharcolepsy Written and performed by Richard Harrington and Chris Kauffman,
Directed by Patricia Buckley
Friday, June 17 at 10:15 PM; Saturday, June 18 at 8:15 PM; Sunday, June 19
at 1:00 PM
The tale of a Belgian cabaret singer and his sidekick who go searching for
the Yeti at the North Pole. "Richard Harrington & Chris Kauffman raise the
level of comedy to a high art." -- The Globe & Mail, Toronto (60 min)

Oh Holy night, Mother-Fucker Written and directed by Brian Fraley
Friday, June 14 at 8:30 PM; Saturday, June 25 at 10:30 PM; Sunday, June 26
at 2:15 PM; Monday, June 27 at 7:00 PM; Friday, July 1 at 10:15 PM; Sunday,
July 3 at 10:15 PM
Mrs. Stone has tried to be a good mother to her daughter Ursula; and she's
had to do it all by herself... Ever since her husband hanged himself in the
attic that Christmas morning, it's been just her. But now her daughter's
mysterious weight gain seems to be pushing her over the edge... (75 min)

The Perfect Girl (a Bizarre Science Fantasy) Written and directed by Jeffrey
A. Lewonczyk
Saturday, June 18 at 10:45 PM; Thursday, June 23 at 7:00 PM; Sunday, June 26
at 1:00 PM; Friday, July 1 at 9:00 PM; Saturday, July 2 at 8:00 PM; Sunday,
July 3 at 4:15 PM
This is High School, USA: tough classes, changing bodies, complicated
relationships. Teenage life is hard enough without mad-scientist guidance
counselors and twisted brain-switching experiments! Chock full of Fifties
music, slapstick ballet and raging hormones, "The Perfect Girl" is the
latest installment in the acclaimed Bizarre Science Fantasy dance-theatre
series. (30 min)

The Return of Toodles von Flooz Written and directed by Lisa Ferber and
starring Trav SD
Sunday, June 12 at 2:15 PM; Friday, June 17 at 7:00 PM; Monday, June 20 at
7:00 PM; Thursday, June 23 at 8:15 PM; Saturday, July 2 at 6:30 PM
It seems like just another day at the What's-it-to-ya. Bartender Johnny¹s
providing a helpful ear and a little philosophy for regular patron Betty
O¹Boozenberg. In walks a church-goin' dame eager to round up all the
sinners. But waitŠcould she beŠformer dancehall showgirl Toodles Von Flooz?!
(30 min)

Sinistrality Choreographed by Jennifer Schmermund
Sunday, June 26 at 1:00 PM; Tuesday, June 20 at 8:15 PM; Friday, July 1 at
9:00 PM; Saturday, July 2 at 3:45 PM; Sunday, July 3 at 5:30 PM
Sinistrality presents three pieces by choreographer, Jennifer Schmermund.
The first, same-titled solo uses gestures taken from various connotations of
"left" throughout history. "Stark Ravings" explodes in a relentless series
of full-on crashes and manic flocking as private moments unravel in public
spaces. "Trot-tastic" irreverently prances around in fancy underwear. (30
min)

A Song Sampling from The Banger's Flopera Book/lyrics by Kirk Wood Bromley,
Composed by John Gideon and Airected by Ben Yalom
Saturday, July 2 at 9:15 PM
Song Samples from The Banger's Flopera A Musical Perversion is a cabaret
performance of songs from a "perversion" of that infamous tale of high-class
lowlifes, The Beggar¹s Opera. This is a musical for a world in which liars
win elections, gangstas make bank, and the site exploitedteens.com gets 1
million hits a day. (60 min)

The Temperamentals Written by Jon Marans and Directed by Mark Ramont
Saturday, June 25 at 3:00 PM
"Temperamental" was a code word for "gay" in the 1950s. The Temperamentals
tells the story of the young communist Harry Hay and the Viennese refugee
Rudi Gernreich who fall in love and combine forces to try and build the
first gay political organization in the U.S. an unprecedented and highly
dangerous undertaking. (120 min)

Third Person Written and Directed by Peter S Petralia and Performed by James
Tigger Ferguson and Mikeah Ernest Jennings
Saturday, June 18 at 1:00 PM; Sunday, June 19 at 5:30 PM; Wednesday, June 22
at 7:00 PM; Friday, June 24 at 7:00 PM; Saturday, June 25 at 9:15 PM;
Saturday, July 2 at 5:00 PM
Third Person is a lecture-cum performance where two performers, who may or
may not be the subject of discussion, illustrate the strange love affair of
two ordinary men whose brushes with loneliness, death and madness frame
their attraction. (75 min)

THIS IS NOT A BURLESQUE: a surrealist burlesque Directed by Juliet O'Brien
and Rosalie Purvis and Performed and Choreographed by Juliet O'Brien, Clara
Purvis and Rosalie Purvis
Friday, June 3 at 8:30 PM; Thursday, June 16 at 8:00 PM; Saturday, June 18
at 10:45 PM; Sunday, June 26 at 8:30 PM; Tuesday, June 28 at 8:15 PM;
Sunday, July 3 at 3:00 PM
In an age where even our once private urges and desires are publicly
commodified and even fetishes are rigidly classified, THIS IS NOT A
BURLESQUE: a surrealist burlesque addresses a hunger for unexpected erotic
imagery. The sexy ladies of Ambersand & Ambersand serve up this erotic
dreamscape with a thousand winking eyes, birds of paradise, singing skin and
some fishnets. (30 min)

World Gone Wrong Written and directed by Ian W. Hill
Saturday, June 4 at 5:30 PM; Tuesday, June 7 at 8:30 PM, Sunday, June 12 at
3:45 PM; Tuesday, June 14 at 9:30 PM; Thursday, June 30 at 8:15 PM;
Saturday, July 2 at 10:45 PM
A multimedia collage of dialogue from about two hundred Films Noir and from
our current Administration, into a semiabstract, dubbed story of betrayal,
corruption, and revenge, as a dying man travels through his splintered
memory to find out who murdered him, and bring them to justice. (90 min)

Zero Boy & Red Bastard Performed by Zero Boy and Eric Davis
Sunday, June 5 at 9:15 PM; Saturday, June 18 at 3:30 PM; Wednesday, June 22
at 9:30 PM
Performance artist, stand-up comic & "vocal acrobat" Zero Boy recounts his
zany adventures in Zeroland through a unique blend of vocally-produced sound
effects and mime. A mass of anatomical balloons and balls ensconced red
long-underwear, Red Bastard, is a Bouffon-styled clown apt to insult you
until you die laughing. (60 min)

After a successful run of his solo performance Anhedonia Road at last year's Hell Festival, writer/performer Chris Harcum brings a new solo work to the Moral Values Festival .

Mahamudra (or Postconsumer Waste Recycled Paper) follows the adventures of Roy, a loathsome theatre critic on a major power trip. Sent to review a show that never begins, Roy takes the stage and transforms his life in front of a live audience. His razor-sharp analysis propels him into a career on the other side of the stage, as an actor, and therefore into an imaginative world of suspense and wonder where he encounters true love, death by lightning, a homeless Hamlet, and his greatest foe, a solo performer named Chris Harcum.

Davis stars as a bone-thin cantankerous clown, whose neurotic endeavors run the gambit of comic expression. Wildly impish one moment, pathetically gutless the next, he answers the call to an epic adventure only to find himself stranded in a cave for 100,000 years. Surrounded by the skeletons of failed attempts, he must now conquer a disembodied voice as he struggles to free himself from 150 yards of industrial elastic in a transforming spandex cave. Antics range from the gut-busting ridiculous to the intimate and heart-felt as this unlikely hero fends off monsters, struggles to make a name for himself and quests to find the Glove of Never Ending Awesomeness.

I FOUND HER TIED TO MY BED

(presented as part of The Moral Values Festival)

At Evergreen Manor Nursing Home, the hours are long, the staff is underpaid and the occupants are easy to kill. When a reckless coworker intrudes upon Beth's solitary life, Beth becomes infatuated and goes to extremes to understand her. But understanding does not necessarily produce a healthy relationship—sometimes it only produces corpses. A dark comedy.