The Brick Theater and Third Lows Productions continue their innovative theater series Penny Dreadful on Saturday, October 18 at 11:00 PM and Sunday, October 19 at 2:00 PM, with the premiere of Penny Dreadful Episode 7 - The Peril of Penny, a Damsel Lost in Time! The newest chapter in the serialized story marks the beginning of Season Two that will consist of six new plays through March 2009. Each play in the series will run for only two performances per month at the Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Avenue in Brooklyn.
Penny Dreadful Episode 7 - The Peril of Penny, a Damsel Lost in Time! follows the story of Penny, the beautiful magician's assistant, who has been transported from 1907 to 2012 by the famous magic trick The Great Switcheroo, and is now searching for a way back home. While back in 1910, the anarchist debutante Abigail Pierce turns to New York's Mafia leaders to help in the next step of her secret plan to bring about the end of the world.
Mateo Moreno directs a cast of some of the finest performers in New York's indie theatre scene, including Jessica Savage, Becky Byers, J. Malcolm Rymer, Robert Pinnock,
Michael Vaccaro, Samantha Mason, Dan Buckland, Douglas MacKrell, Dina Gray, and Penny Dreadful co-creator Matt Gray as the intrepid Pinkerton Detective Leslie Caldwell.
Inspired by the adventure-filled dime novels of the 19th and early 20th century, Penny Dreadful is an innovative epic for the stage co-created for Williamsburg's Brick Theater by writers/directors/performers Matt Gray and Bryan Enk. Penny Dreadful has been serialized into monthly installments that began in November 2007 with Season One. Audiences can follow the labyrinthine plot twists and re-experience the cliffhanger endings through detailed summaries and video downloads of each episode following their live performance, available on the Third Lows Productions official website (
www.thirdlows.com/pennydreadful).
The year is 1909 and the discovery of a bloodless body has San Francisco abuzz. It will be up to a second-rate showman and an oddball detective of the supernatural to put together the clues - a mysterious hearing aid, a missing creature from the darkest corner of the earth, a secret society bent on world domination, a man who can control earthquakes, and the greatest magic trick ever performed. Penny Dreadful is a twelve-part tale of mystery and horror that takes place in the first decade of the twentieth century and guest stars a parade of notable historical figures such as Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Edison as they weave in and out of the suspenseful tale.
Penny Dreadful will continue in November 2008 with Penny Dreadful Episode 8 - Caldwell and Viernik vs. the Creatures of the Night.
About The Brick
The Brick and its company, The Brick Theater, Inc., were founded in 2002 by Robert Honeywell and
Michael Gardner. Formerly an auto-body shop, a yoga center, and various storage spaces, this brick-walled garage in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was completely refurbished as a state-of-the-art performance space. The Brick has been home to many critically acclaimed premieres, including Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Bizarre Science Fantasy, Tupperware Orgy, In a Strange Room (based on Faulkner's As I Lay Dying), Dear Dubya, Fallout Follies, World Gone Wrong, My Year of Porn, Who Is Wilford Brimley?, Jenna Is Nuts, Habitat, Absence of Magic, Assyrian Monkey Fantasy (in two movements), and The Pragmatists.
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