The Brick Theater Presents AMUSE BOUCHE: A NY Clown Theatre festival Hors D'oeuvre 9/4-27

The Brick Theater, Inc. presents AMUSE BOUCHE: A NY Clown Theatre Festival Hors D'oeuvre

PERFORMANCES: Repertory Schedule from September 4 to September 27
at The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
one block from the Lorimer stop of the L train / Metropolitan stop of the G train
Tickets available soon at www.bricktheater.com or Theatermania (212-352-3101)
All tickets are $15

(ä mooz boosh; Fr. müz-)
Definition: any small bite of food or appetizer-sized portion, often served before a meal
Etymology: 1968; French 'that which amuses the mouth'

The NY Clown Theatre Festival (the preeminent presenter of Clown Theatre in the U.S.) will return in the Fall of 2010.
While you wait, The Brick Theater, Inc. does not want you to go hungry. From September 4 through September 27,
The Brick is proud to present 5 Clown Theatre originals playing for a very limited run:
Amuse Bouche: A NY Clown Theatre Festival Hors D'oeuvre

For more information, please visit http://www.bricktheater.com/clown
The NY Clown Theatre Festival 2007: http://www.bricktheater.com/clown2007
The NY Clown Theatre Festival 2008: http://www.bricktheater.com/clown2008

PARTICIPATING SHOWS:

Happy Hour (http://www.happyhourclowns.com) presents AND IT FEELS SO GOOD!
New York's premiere physical comedy trio Happy Hour is together again with an all-new show! Mark Gindick (Big Apple Circus), Ambrose Martos (Cirque du Soleil) and Matthew Morgan (Ringling Bros.) transcend formulaic circus comedy to create an evening of theater that is remarkably genuine, occasionally absurd, definitely sweaty and wildly funny. The New York Post calls the comedy trio Happy Hour "irresistible high-energy entertainment" and the New York Times says they are "hilarious." The Village Voice adds: "The talented trio let fun flow freely. It's easy to see how Happy Hour could become a habit."
September 23 - September 26 @ 8pm, Sept 27 @ 3pm

Harrington & Kauffman (http://www.harringtonkauffman.com) presents CABARET TERRARIUM
Starring Richard Harrington and Chris Kauffman
Gustave and Nhar from Harrington & Kauffman's Nharcolepsy and Motel California return! In this epic comedy of amnesia and redemption, watch Belgian cabaret singer Gustave and his silent assistant Nhar travel the world in search of clues about Gustave's family and his own shadowy past.
September 18 and 19 @ 8pm, September 20 @ 3pm

Aimee German and Jennifer Sargent present CANARSIE SUITE
At The Edge of Vaudeville
As the Vaudeville era closes, the illustrious LeRoy Sister-Act unravels at the seams. A "hilarious" (ThreeWeeks), tawdry carnival of dance, song, knife throwing, acrobatic gorillas, and High Melodrama based on 1910 Vaudeville scripts that swings and stomps along The Edge of farce and drama. "One of the weirdest and most memorable evenings in the theatre I have ever experienced." PragueTV Devised by Aimee German and Jennifer Sargent with consultation from Eva Burgess, Michelle Seekamp, Eric Davis
Performed and Directed by Aimee German and Jennifer Sargent, Music Directed by Tone Melone
(http://www.CanarsieSuite.com)
September 4 & 5 @ 8pm, September 11 & 12 @ 10pm

Ten Directions (http://www.tendirections.net) presents ICETACLES
The Last Chance Of A Lifetime Ice Castles, The Cutting Edge and Rocky collide on skates. When a has-been coach brings two sightless skaters together to win the big competition we learn that sometimes the oNe You love is the person you hate the most and winning is all that really matters. The creators of Bouffon Glass Menajoree bring you a blind parody on wheels.
A work in progress developed in Collaboration with: Lynn Berg, Audrey Crabtree, Jonathan Kaplan, Jeff Seal and Shawn Wickens. Choreography by: Ron Hoffman
September 8, 15 and 22 @ 8pm

Logic Limited, Ltd. presents SCHADEN, FREUDE AND YOU: A 3 CLOWN SEMINAR
Directed by Jane Nichols; Featuring Chris Arruda, Brad Fraizer and David Graham Jones
schadenfreude SHOD-n-froy-duh, noun: 1. largely unanticipated delight in the suffering of another; 2.over-the-counter cultural antidepressant; 3. self-help seminar exploring the healing powers of schadenfreude conducted by three leading professional experts in the field. Logic Limited, Ltd. has just the tonic for these tough times. Join them for the self-help seminar that's guaranteed to self-destruct.
September 11 & 12 @ 8pm, September 18 & 19 at 9:30pm

The Brick Theater is located at 575 Metropolitan Avenue (between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on the L & G subway lines (L: Lorimer stop; G: Metropolitan stop). For more detailed directions & further information, see http://www.bricktheater.com. The Brick and its non-profit company, The Brick Theater, Inc. were founded in September of 2002 by Robert Honeywell and Michael Gardner. Formerly an auto-body shop, a storage space and a yoga center, this brick- walled garage was completely refurbished into a state-of-the-art theater complex, with a large sprung floor and professional lighting and sound package.

The Brick has been home to numerous critically acclaimed original productions, monthly series and theater festivals, including Game Play: A Celebration of Video Game Theater, The Antidepressant Festival, three years of the international NY Clown Theatre Festival, Gemini CollisionWorks' August repertory festival (The Collisionworks), Suspicious Package, Adventure Quest, The Nosemaker's Apprentice, The Protestants, The Granduncle Quadrilogy, Lord Oxford Brings You the Second American Revolution, Live!, Third Lows' 2-year Penny Dreadful serial, Richard Foreman's
Harry in Love, The Film Festival: A Theater Festival (featuring Death at Film Forum and The Stubborn Illusion of Time), Babylon Babylon, Notes from Underground, Bitch Macbeth, The Debate Society's A Thought About Raya, Secrets History Remembers, The Pretentious Festival (including Every Play Ever Written and Macbeth Without Words), The Present Perfect, Bouffon Glass Menajoree, Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist/Cleansed, The Death of Griffin Hunter, Untitled Theater Co. #61's Havel Festival, Sexadelic Cemetery, Greed: A Musical Love $tory, The Kung Fu Importance of Being Earnest, The $ellout Festival, Adventures of Caveman Robot, Total Faith in Cosmic Love, The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, The Moral Values Festival (featuring Dear Dubya, World Gone Wrong, My Year of Porn), Tupperware Orgy, Bizarre Science Fantasy, Who is Wilford Brimley? The Musical, Jenna is nuts, Habitat, In a Strange Room (based on William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying), Fallout Follies, Assurbanipal Babilla's Assyrian Monkey
Fantasy and the Brooklyn premiere of legendary Polish playwright Stanislaw Witkiewicz's The Pragmatists.