The Antidepressant Festival Comes To The Brick 6/5-7/4, Tickets Now On Sale

Tickets are now on sale for The Antidepressant Festival, presented by The Brick Theater, Inc at The Brick Theater (575 Metropolitan Avenue between Union and Lorimer) in Williamsburg, June 5 through July 4. Tickets ($15) are available online at www.bricktheater.com or by calling 212-352-3101 or toll-free: 1-866-811-4111.

Adventure Quest Sneaky Snake Productions
Playfully evoking the era of vintage computer gaming, ADVENTURE QUEST blends graphics, music, and live acting into a dark fable about freedom and violence. Follow our Hero as he battles the dreaded Octopus Cult, courts the beautiful Peasant Girl, and struggles to stay sane as the universe crumbles around him.
Performances: June 6 at 5:30pm, June 17 at 8pm, June 25 at 7pm & July 4 at 5pm

Afternoon Playland
2012 is fast approaching. Will it mean the end of the world as the Mayans predicted or usher in the dawning of a new age? Panic and fear vs. hope and joy. How does one live when one thinks the world is ending? Sock puppets hold the key.
Performances: June 6 at 11pm & June 28 at 5pm

...and the fear cracked open. Ten Directions
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.
Performances: June 10 at 8pm, June 18 at 9:30pm, June 21 at 8pm, & June 27 at 8pm

Big Girls Club (The Happy Dance Dance Princess Show) Everywhere Theatre Group
It's girls night in for Lisa, Katie and Nancy. All they want is to be happy. But as they gorge themselves on unhealthy food and BUTTERFACE! the TV Show, the night escalates into a sadistic game of truth or dare that reveals a shockingly surrealistic glimpse to their disturbing world.
Performances: June 7 at 8pm, June 12 at 8pm, June 23 at 8pm, & July 4 at 2pm

Booze, Sports and Romance Danny Bowes
Monologues about the male psyche.
Performances: June 14 at 5pm & June 20 at 10pm
Cabaret Terrarium Harrington & Kauffman
Gustave and Nhar from Harrington & Kauffman's Nharcolepsy and Motel California return! Gustave has amnesia and is doing detective work around the world to discover the details of his past life. He remains cheerful throughout.
Performances: June 14 at 7pm

Exit, Pursued by Bears The Aztec Economy
In one life, Leon is the VP of Chicago's leading sanitation union. In another, he is Tickle Bear, the heart of an online anonymous furry sex community. A union strike, an S.T.D., and bizarre nightmares about travel brochures compel his fellow furries to ensure he stays in the clan.
Performances: June 14 at 2pm, June 19 at 7:30pm, June 21 at 2pm, & July 1 at 7:30pm

Glee Club Blue Coyote Theater Group
A group of men try to learn to sing a happy song in harmony. Singing makes people feel good. Men like to hang out with each other and be manly, and talk about their feelings, even if those feelings make them sad. In addition to harmony, there will also be fighting and profanity.
Performances: June 7 at 2pm, June 12 at 10pm, June 20 at 5pm, & June 28 at 3pm

How to Fight Depression When You Don't Even Know its Symptoms Five Eduardinos
Characters expose themselves to this rotten existence thru 3 dimensions: Memory, Reality and Hallucination, but one of them sees the truth behind the images.
Performances: June 11 at 9:30pm & June 13 at 5:30pm

Infectious Opportunity Nosedive Productions
Wes Farley pretended to have HIV for 10 years to boost his screenwriting career. He is slowly comprehending the drawbacks of his plan.
Performances: June 7 at 5pm, June 9 at 8pm, July 1 at 9pm, & July 3 at 7pm

Le Mirage Laboratory Theater
Laboratory Theater performs an imagined lecture and demonstration of mystical dance by members of the 1980's French-Canadian cult, The Order of the Solar Temple. Three members of the Las Vegas chapter of the Solar Temple offer true peace and happiness through a commingling of dance, original music, inspirational texts, and ritual. Featuring Rosicrucianism, ecological philosophy, the Holy Grail, and Transit by mass-suicide to the planet Jupiter.
Performances: June 13 at 7pm, June 20 at 7pm, & June 24 at 7:30pm

Red Rover Shstrng Prdctns
Join the studio audience of Canada's favorite children's TV show. Featuring the lovable Red Rover, Miss Clover and their musical adventures with counting, shapes, colors, and MURDER! Discover the joy of learning while watching the corpses pile up!
Performances: June 20 at 2pm, June 24 at 9pm, & July 3 at 9:30pm

Samuel and Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War The Mad Ones
Brothers' love is split wide open as an unsettling hum gives way to full scale invasion. Samuel and Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War combines 1950's radio drama, live music, and Soviet scientists for a look back in time and forward to what's next.
Performances: June 6 at 5:30pm, June 27 a 2pm, June 28 at 7:30pm, & July 2 at 7:30pm

Schaden, Freude and You: A 3 Clown Seminar Logic Limited, Ltd.
Logic Limited, Ltd. has just the tonic for these tough times. Join them for the self-help seminar that's guaranteed to self-destruct.
Performances: June 26 at 7pm & June 27 at 10pm

Suspicious Package: Rx The Fifth Wall
Following last year's hit show, Suspicious Package, The Fifth Wall is proud to present an all-new adventure employing the same revolutionary technology that turned audiences into actors and the streets of Williamsburg into a stage. Suspicious Package: Rx takes our intrepid audience/cast into the not-too-distant post-apocalyptic future in which happy pills don't make anyone happy, memories can't be trusted, and everyone seems a little suspicious.
Performances: By appointment on Saturdays & Sundays

The Tale of the Good Whistleblower of Chaillot's Caucasian Mother and Her Other Children of a Lesser Marriage Chalk Circle Theatre Askew Drafting Table
Hailed by audiences and critics alike as "The Rosetta Stone of Modern Drama," The Tale of the Good Whistleblower of Chaillot's Caucasian Mother and Her Other Children of a Lesser Marriage Chalk Circle is a recently-discovered, famously unknown satire about corruption in a Belle Epoque Parisian pharmaceutical factory.
Performances: June 6 at 3pm, June 16 at 8pm, June 19 at 9:30pm, & June 25 at 9:30pm

WILM 690: Pirate Radio Movementpants Dance
A show about the healing power of music and imagination comprised by a series of vignettes connected by a pirate radio show hosted by Cody Getz, a reincarnation of Quetzelcoatl, who travels thru radio waves to help listeners. Includes a showdown with a listener who threatens to take some prescription pills!
Performances: June 11 at 7:30pm & June 13 at 3pm

Your Lithopedion Opium, Fireworks and Lead
In YOUR LITHOPEDION a serial killer attempts to reform and becomes the founder of Serial Killers Anonymous, which totally wrecks his marriage. A dark, don't-bring-your-kids comedy about boredom, dysfunction, community and child murder. You'll never think of 80's music in the same way again.
Performances: June 13 at 9pm, June 18 at 9:30pm, June 26 at 9:30pm & June 30 at 8pm

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