The Brick Extends SUSPICIOUS PACKAGE: RX Through 7/25

Following a sold-out run in June, The Brick Theater is extending the interactive ipod experience Suspicious Package:Rx due to popular demand. Told via provided Zune Media Players, the story unfolds as audience members (six at a time) are guided through their roles with both aural and visual cues. Video flashbacks and narrative voiceovers fill in your backstory while maps of locations and your dialogue are displayed on screen. Part theatrical experience, part live video game, part Williamsburg walking tour, Suspicious Package:Rx immerses its audience within a 1960s sci-fi dystopia of a far-flung future that could be right around the corner.

The audience experiences Suspicious Package not as a detached observer but as a participant. As the story begins, a plague has wiped out much of the United States population, the survivors immune via Cycle 5, a popular antidepressant. But plans for a new drug and rumors of mind control lead to corporate espionage and military secrets. Cast as the Colonel, the Chemist, the Secretary, Computer Whiz, Doctor, or Executive in a Twilight Zone-like 1960s Williamsburg, will you be a victim of circumstance or the guilty party? Personal video players accompany you through the mystery and prompt you through your lines as you star in the show where technology, reality, theater, and film meet.

Gyda Arber is a writer/director best known for creating the multimedia iPod noir Suspicious Package. Named "Person of the Year 2008" by nytheatre.com, she is also the director/creator of the interactive play Q&A: The Perception of Dawn ("quite ingenious"-nytheatre.com), the writer/director of the short film "Watching," and the assistant director of the sold-out hit Notes from Underground. A San Francisco native, she has a degree in musical theater from NYU and is a graduate of the Maggie Flanigan Studio. Aaron Baker is the writer/director of sitcom for the stage "3800 Elizabeth."

Directed by Gyda Arber. Written by Gyda Arber, Aaron Baker, and Wendy Coyle, with additional writing by Danny Bowes, James Comtois, and Roger Nasser. Featuring the talents of Gyda Arber, Fred Backus, AaRon Baker, Becky Byers, Hope Cartelli, Becky Comtois, Ivanna Cullinan, Sarah Engelke, Ian W. Hill, Debbie Klaar, Samantha Mason, Mateo Moreno, Jessica McVea, Roger Nasser, Timothy McCown Reynolds, Jessica Savage, Ken Simon, Alexis Sotille, Art Wallace, and Amanda Woodward.

The Brick Theater
Saturdays and Sundays, groups every hour beginning at 4pm, reservations required
60 minutes
575 Metropolitan Ave.,
Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211
½ a block from the Lorimer stop of the L train

All tickets $20, including a post-show beverage. Reservations Required.

Tickets available through theatermania.com (212-352-3101 or toll-free: 1-866-811-4111)

For more information visit www.suspiciouspackageshow.com