Brooklyn College's Bring A Weasel and a Pint of Your Own Blood Fest Comes to Brooklyn Academy Of Music

The 16th annual Bring A Weasel and A Pint of Your Own Blood Festival, created by experimental theater legend Mac Wellman, will take place this year at the BAM Fisher (Fishman Space) on September 13th - September 15th, 2024.

The festival is written and presented by the Brooklyn College MFA Playwriting program's 2024 graduates:

Lori Felipe-Barkin

Tracy Carns

Nurit Chinn

Leslie Gauthier

Utkarsh Rajawat

Madison Wetzell

The "Bring A Weasel and Pint of Your Own Blood" Festival was founded in 2006 by Mac Wellman and a group of alumni MFA playwrights from Brooklyn College including Erin Courtney, Kate E. Ryan, and Karinne Keithley Syers.

This year's plays are all inspired by The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by the 18th century poet, artist, and iconoclastic visionary William Blake, common source material suggested by program directors Sibyl Kempson and Dennis A. Allen II. Playwrights, directors, designers, and actors from Brooklyn College and the wider NYC theater community collaborate on these explosive, form-bending new works, presented in two programs featuring three plays apiece.

FESTIVAL DETAILS:

Tickets for Weasel Festival are $20 and can be reserved by calling (718) 636-4100, online at https://www.bam.org/theater/2025/the-weasel-festival, or in person at the BAM box office, located in the Peter Jay Sharp Building at 30 Lafayette Avenue. The performance schedule is as follows:

PROGRAM HEAVEN

Sep 13 at 7:30pm, Sep 14 at 2:30pm

The Peepholeman

Written by Lori Felipe-Barkin

Directed by Benjamin Viertel

Play Synopsis: Lillian and Frank, an elderly couple, share everything: a home, a life, and a liver. What they don't share is an outlook. That is...until a mysterious Peephole Salesman knocks

on their door. Lillian is convinced he's come for their liver. Frank is convinced Lillian is

crazy. Slowly, they begin to share one more thing in common: paranoia.

SLIMRZ

Written by Utkarsh Rajawat

Directed by Kedian Keohan

Play Synopsis: SLIMRZ by White Castle is a first of its kind fast-food style slime restaurant, where we will explore slime as the sublime, "brat" as symbol of theater industry complicity with genocide, and ofc the union of reason/desire, marriage of heaven and hell, through a chiasmus of scenes all set in the restaurant itself.

Corrosives Are the Cure for Her Crushing Nostalgia

Written by Tracy Carns

Directed by Benjamin Viertel

Play Synopsis: Corrosives Are the Cure for Her Crushing Nostalgia is a haunting, an ache, a revolution of the mind, a blown-out Polaroid. As The Printer, Dixon (a f***ing novelist), and "Sue Lyon" plot away on a blistering hot day, the radio's playing, there's beer in the cooler, and some devils may be writing a manifesto in acid on flesh. Welcome. The devils know you're here.

PROGRAM HELL

Sep 14 at 7:30pm, Sep 15 at 3pm

Choreomania

Written by Madison Wetzell

Directed by Marissa Joyce Stamps

Play Synopsis: A scream into the void in which the void is also me screaming. Includes: fun facts about death, a conceptual exploration of puppets, an encounter between strangers, and a dance number.

Proverbs of the Mojave

Written by Leslie Gauthier

Directed by Marissa Joyce Stamps

Play Synopsis: Proverbs of the Mojave is a post-grief, post-Americana sand study in which a cowboy and housewife reveal desire in the creosote.

Godbird

Written by Nurit Chinn

Directed by Kedian Keohan

Play Synopsis: Deb's up early and can't sleep. During off-leash hours in a neighborhood park, she meets Hugo and his pitbull. Also lurking in the shrub: a Birdman, with a bird-like view on things. A play about wanting to be seen, fully and inexplicably.

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