The Brick Brings Medicated Happiness With THE ANTIDEPRESSANT FESTIVAL 6/5-7/4

The world financial markets have collapsed, the banks are insolvent, unemployment is rising, wars rage out of control, global warming approaches, pirates roams the seas, and there is nothing good on television. But this summer, The Brick will write you a prescription for all your woes*: 19 theatrical productions about instant and medicated happiness. From June 5 through July 4, 2009 The Brick Theater, Inc. will present THE ANTIDEPRESSANT FESTIVAL. See? It's all better now.

*Side effects may include sock puppets, 1980s Text Adventure Video Games, booze, pills, casinos, clowns, dogs, Furry Sex Communities, STD's, amnesiacs, Glee Club singers, robot wars, serial killers, pirate radio, frogs, bears, Schadenfreude and Minnesotans.

Adventure Quest Sneaky Snake Productions
Celebrating the Golden Age of home computer gaming, Adventure Quest follows Hero as he tries to save the town of Perilton from the wizard Evilcus. He finds true love and begins to question the meaning of life - with dick jokes and cartoon violence.
Afternoon Playland 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.
...and the fear cracked open. Ten Directions
Scenes from the making and unmaking of a marriage, Minnesota style.
Big Girls Club (The Happy Dance Dance Princess Show) Everywhere Theater Group
Three women seek happiness by gorging themselves on unhealthy food, bad TV and each other. A play that celebrates womanhood (on uppers).
Booze, Sports and Romance Danny Bowes
Monologues about the male psyche.
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.
The Frog Show 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.
Glee Club Matthew Freeman
Men like to hang out with each other and be manly, and talk about their feelings, even if those feelings make them sad.
Happy Pill Cabaret
Lisa Levy performs her show Stand Up, Lie Down and participants from the festival will perform previews of their upcoming shows in a free one night only performance on June 5th.
How to Fight Depression When You Don't Even Know its Symptoms?! Five Eduardinos
Characters expose themselves to this rotten existence through three dimensions: Memory, Reality and Hallucination, but one of them sees the truth behind the images.
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.
Le Mirage Laboratory Theater
The cult known as Order of the Solar Temple meets Grand Theft Auto: Sin City.
Red Rover Shstrng Productions
Canada's favorite children's live studio audience TV show is now in the US featuring the lovable Red Rover and Miss Clover and their musical adventures with counting, shapes, colors and MURDER.
Samuel and Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War Organic Funny
2 brothers trapped in their debilitating nostalgia for their post-war American upbringing cut short by the Robot Attack of 1959 and their shared love for one girl, take the stage with a live DJ and their beloved, Susie.
Schadenfreude Logic Limited, Ltd.
schadenfreude SHOD-n-froy-duh, noun: "largely unanticipated delight in the suffering of another"
What better way to attack depression than to watch other peoples' woes? Three clowns demonstrate.
Suspicious Package: Rx The Fifth Wall
In the sequel to 2008's interactive iPod noir, 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.
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
A recently-discovered classic play written circa 1900 by Anonymous, this famously unknown satire tells a tale of corruption in a Belle Epoque Parisian pharmaceutical factory.
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 Quetzalcoatl, who travels through radio waves to help listeners.
Your Lithopedion Opium, Fireworks and Lead
An experimental comedy about a serial killer who becomes the founder of Serial Killers Anonymous and how that ruins his marriage.

The Antidepressant Festival will play June 5-July 4 at The Brick (575 Metropolitan Avenue between Union and Lorimer). Tickets are available through www.theatermania.com or by calling 212-352-3101 or toll-free: 1-866-811-4111.

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