THE LISTENERS Runs Now thru 2/14 at The Brick

When two drifters arrive at Sistine's door, she offers them mismatched coffee cups and something called breakfast. Outside the dogs are barking. Probably dogs. The drifters are now lodgers. They meet the family. There's a house and people live in it. Vegetables in the garden. Board games. History. Stories. Rituals. Songs. Do we sing songs? We've lived this way for centuries. Or decades. Anyway, a long time. We know how to survive.

The Listeners is a surreal drama about ritual as a ward against the unknown. Casting the audience in the role of listeners themselves, The Listeners has onlookers gazing through one-way mirrors and peep holes in the walls of a four-sided set. Do you see what you hear?

This unique, poetic production features a cast of Off-Off Broadway mainstays including Heather Cunningham (An Appeal to the Woman of the House), Robert Honeywell (Something Something Uber Alles), Moira Stone (Mass, Why We Left Brooklyn), Jay Leibowitz (The Very, Very), Sarah K. Lippmann (Why We Left Brooklyn) and Stephanie Willing (Money Lab, My Fist Autograce Homeography 1973-1974).

Written by Matthew Freeman (When Is A Clock, Brandywine Distillery Fire, Why We Left Brooklyn) and directed by The Brick's artistic director Michael Gardner (Notes from Underground, Brandywine Distillery Fire, Ninja Cherry Orchard.) The Listeners is a part of The Brick's 2015 Resident Artist Program.

The Listeners plays at The Brick (579 Metropolitan Ave at Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn) today, February 4 - 14, 2015 at 8pm. Tickets ($18) may be purchased online atwww.bricktheater.com or by calling 866-811-4111. Performances are February 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13 & 14 at 8pm; February 8 @ 2pm.

Photo by Michael Gardner

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