Enter Claire's brain. A psychic parasite lives there: a hungry ghost, her mother. In order to exorcise this haunt from her brain, femme pathos breaks open on the Brocken at Walpurgis Night: a gay bacchanal where the doctor and Three Lords will surgically remove the pathogen of misplaced femininity - or was it homosexuality - or some other trauma lodged in the depressed body? Claire and her mother un/become each other in the limbo of a dance-theater spectacle attempting to answer the queer engénue's burning question: "What is insanity without the patriarchal landscape?"
femme pathos will play at The Brick (
579 Metropolitan Ave at Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn) January 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20 @ 7:30 pm and January 14, 21 @ 2pm. Tickets ($20) may be purchased online at
www.bricktheater.com or by calling
866-811-4111.
Claire Moodey directs, performs in, designs puppets for, and writes theater. In the last year, she directed
Megan Lang's Forsaken Nation,
Chiori Miyagawa's Five by Five, co-directed Marco Millions with BessRowen for Target Margin, and assistant directed David Herskowits on Mourning Becomes Electra for TMT. As a designer and performer, Claire's work was most recently seen in Alice Pencavel's Daphne at IRT. Recent performing credits include Mettawee River Theater Company's Before the Sun and Moon, Megan Murtha's Songs of Go and Pending, It's Lonely at the Top, and Are You With Us Graham Grant Graven?. She has been developing femme pathos with the fantastic direction of Lacy Post and the gracious support and generosity of Mary Moodey, her mother, for the last three years.
Lacy Post is a director and performer based in Brooklyn. She is the Production Manager for House of SpeakEasy Foundation's Seriously Entertaining literary cabaret series at
Joe's Pub. Recent work includes Seymour's Fat Lady: A Free adaptation of J.D. Salinger's Franny & Zooey, NYU Graduate Acting, Freeplay Festival, and Rex, a short film. She is also a player alongside Caleb Bark and
Johanna McKeon in My Address is Still Walton (a play for the set of
Charlie Rose), a chamber play and upcoming film, written by
Karinne Keithley Syers.
The Brick is located at 579 Metropolitan Avenue (between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street) inWilliamsburg, Brooklyn on the L & G subway lines (L: Lorimer stop; G: Metropolitan stop). For more detailed directions & further information, visit
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.
Winner of THE 2009 CAFFE CINO FELLOWSHIP AWARD, The Brick is Williamsburg, Brooklyn's destination for subversive theatrical experiences. Home to the critically acclaimed premieres of Bouffon Glass Menajoree (NY IT Award Winner- Outstanding Play), Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War (NY IT Award Winner-Outstanding Play), Greed: A Musical Love $tory (NY IT Award Nominee-Outstanding Musical), Red Cloud Rising, Theatre of the Arcade and Suspicious Package (NY IT Award Nominee-Outstanding Play), The Brick has hosted some of downtown theater's most innovative artists, including
Young Jean Lee, The Debate Society, Little Lord, Nellie Tinder, Title:Point,
Target Margin Theater, New Georges,
Jason Grote,
Annie Baker,
The Mad Ones and
Thomas Bradshaw.
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