Brick Theater Concludes Penny Dreadful W/ Episode 12 3/28,29

The Brick Theater and Third Lows Productions conclude their innovative theater series Penny Dreadful on Saturday, March 28 at 11:00 PM, Sunday, March 29 at 2:00 PM and Sunday, March 29 at 8:00 PM with the premiere of Penny Dreadful Episode 12: The Last Century.

Penny Dreadful Episode 12: The Last Century is the final chapter in the story of Penny, the beautiful magician's assistant; Varney, the mysterious gentleman vampire; Hin Tsu, the time-traveling physicist and mad dictator; and Abigail Pierce, the anarchist debutante with a plan "to kill them all." The episode brings the series' parallel action in 1910 and 2012 together in ways thrilling, unsettling and unexpected.

Inspired by the adventure-filled dime novels of the 19th and early 20th century, Penny Dreadful is an innovative epic for the stage co-created for Williamsburg's Brick Theater by writers/directors/performers Matt Gray and Bryan Enk. Penny Dreadful has been serialized into monthly installments that began in November 2007. Audiences can follow the labyrinthine plot twists and re-experience the cliffhanger endings through detailed summaries and video downloads of each episode following their live performance, available on the Third Lows Productions official website (www.thirdlows.com/pennydreadful).

Our story begins in 1909 with the discovery of a bloodless body that has San Francisco abuzz. It will be up to a second-rate showman and an oddball detective of the supernatural to put together the clues - a mysterious hearing aid, a missing creature from the darkest corner of the earth, a secret society bent on world domination, a man who can control earthquakes, and the greatest magic trick ever performed. Penny Dreadful is a twelve-part tale of mystery and horror that takes place in the first decade of the twentieth century and guest stars a parade of notable historical figures such as Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Edison as they weave in and out of the suspenseful tale.

The Amazing Viernik (l., Fred Backus) and Detective Leslie Caldwell (Matt Gray) fight the future in Penny Dreadful.