GAME PLAY Celebrates Video Game Theatre At The Brick 7/2-7/25

The Brick Theater, Inc. presents GAME PLAY, A Celebration of Video Game Theater from July 2 through July 25 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)

3 Performances executed through video games and in video game styles!
3 Game Party Nights!
3 weeks of rot-your-brain VG madness!

Please Note: 2 participating shows begin as part of The Antidepressant Festival
(http://www.bricktheater.com/antidepressant) starting June 6th.

GFS GAME PARTY NIGHTS: $5
MMORPG Night-July 18th @ 8pm
Play your favorite Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game in a theater!
Rock Band Karaoke-July 24th @ 10pm (after 8pm Adventure Quest performance)
Play Rock Band in a theater! Karaoke-style!
Chiptunes Dance Party-July 25th @ 10pm (after 8pm Adventure Quest performance)
Party to 1980s/90s video game-inspired Chiptunes with Video-Game Projections!
All on The Brick's 20-foot GFS (Giant F'ing Screen)!

VIDEO GAME THEATER PERFORMANCES: $15
ADVENTURE QUEST
Sneaky Snake Productions (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=158844415264)
The town of Perilton has been invaded by an evil wizard, and only our hero can save it! Cheer as he fights for the hand of the mayor's daughter! Gasp as he infiltrates the bloodthirsty Octopus Cult! Watch as he meticulously collects inventory items! Shift uncomfortably in your seat as the narrative gradually implodes! Glance around nervously as characters are brutally murdered for no particular reason! Despair as your faith in a meaningful, ordered universe is shaken! Evoking the Golden Age of home computer gaming, Adventure Quest is both a nostalgic treat and a glimpse into the yawning Void.
Friday July 10th at 8pm
Saturday July 11th at 8pm
Monday, July 20th at 8pm
Friday July 24th at 8pm
Saturday July 25th at 8pm

SUSPICIOUS PACKAGE: Rx
The Fifth Wall (http://www.suspiciouspackageshow.com/what.html)
Following last year's hit show, Suspicious Package, The Fifth Wall is proud to present an all-new adventure employing the same revolutionary technology that turned audiences into actors and the streets of Williamsburg into a stage in what NY Press called "one of the best times I have had at the theater." Suspicious Package: Rx takes our intrepid audience/cast into a not-too-distant post-apocalyptic future in which happy pills don't make anyone happy, memories can't be trusted, and everyone seems a little suspicious.

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. Weekend afternoons, by appointment

THANK YOU, BUT OUR PRINCESS IS IN ANOTHER CASTLE:
FOUR LIVE-ACTION MACHINIMA THEATER PIECES
Eddie Kim (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=84480879140)
Utilizing World of Warcraft, Halo 3 and Grand Theft Auto 4, Machinima Theater Auteur Eddie Kim presents four classical theater texts, as performed by online video game characters manipulated by gamers live on stage. Video games as digital puppetry! Technicians will use several X-Box 360 consoles and laptops linked to each other and to gamers over the internet to control digital characters in real-time in front of an audience. See the stories of Niobe and the Japanese poet, Ono no Komachi as never before. A digital movement piece, chiptunes interludes and a version of Alvin Lucier's legendary "I am Sitting in a Room" also will be presented.

Thu, July 2nd at 9:30pm
Fri, July 3rd at 10:30pm
Thu, July 9th at 8pm
Sat, July 11th at 5pm
Sun, July 12th at 2pm
Thu, July 16th at 8pm
Fri July 17th at 8pm

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, including three years of the New York Clown Theatre Festival, The Protestants, The Granduncle Quadrilogy, Lord Oxford Brings You the Second American Revolution, Live!, 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, the 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 stagings of Chekhov's Three Sisters, O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon, Maria Irene Fornes' Abingdon Square and the Brooklyn premiere of legendary Polish playwright Stanislaw Witkiewicz's The Pragmatists.

 

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