Brick Theatre Presents DEVILS and SPACEMEN FROM SPACE, 8/12-29

The Brick Theatre in Brooklyn will be presenting two new productions this month - DEVILS and SPACEMEN FROM SPACE, as well as the return of "Butterfly, Butterfly, Kill Kill Kill!" For more information and to buy tickets, visit their website at http://www.bricktheatre.com.

August 12 - 29, 2010
Gemini CollisionWorks presents
THE COLLISIONWORKS 2010
Two Bold New Productions in Repertory

DEVILS
by John Whiting (the basis for Ken Russel's controversial film)

A dark and disturbing true story from the 17th Century -- Grandier, a politically minded and popular priest who acts as a second governor of the walled city of Loudon in France, runs afoul of the plans of Cardinal Richelieu, who is unable to control the city until a cloister of nuns in the city accuse Grandier of being in league with demons that possess them. The outcome involves a show trial, some vicious torture, and a terrible execution.
August 14, 19, 21, 26, 27, and 28 at 8.00 pm
August 15 and 29 at 2.00 pm

SPACEMEN FROM SPACE
by Ian W. Hill

Based on the b-picture serials of the 1930s and 40s, SPACEMEN FROM SPACE is an original play told in six episodes of a serial featuring singing cowboys, gangsters, g-men, aliens, mad scientists, good scientists, reporters, masked supervillains, kid sidekicks, and annoying, unfunny comic reliefs. All in a complex, barely understandable conflict over world domination.
August 17, and 20 at 8.00 pm
August 15 and 22 at 7.00 pm
August 14 and 22 at 2.00pm
Tickets available here!

Depth Charge presents Butterfly, Butterfly, Kill Kill Kill!

A new play inspired by Seijun Suzuki's Branded to Kill at the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival

In 1967, Japanese B-movie director Seijun Suzuki was fired by Nikkatsu Studios for turning standard yakuza-flick scripts into avant-garde wonders that combined raw entertainment value with formal experimentation. The studio said his movies "made no money and no sense". However critics called Suzuki an auteur on par with those of the French and Japanese New Waves. BBKKK! will do to theater what Suzuki did to film! Enter the mad odyssey of a down-on-his-luck assassin destined to become Tokyo's No. 1 Killer! To achieve the coveted ranking, our hero will have to face down a gauntlet of goons, nymphomaniacs, femme fatales, and the mysterious top killer himself. Featuring monstrous puppets, mystic sex rituals, yellowface assassins, wildly stylized violence, and a live electro-jazz-exotica score!

FRI Aug 13 @ 7
SUN Aug 15 @ NOON
MON Aug 16 @ 8:30
WED Aug 18 @ 8
THU Aug 19 @ 2

First Floor Theater @ LA MAMA
74A East 4th St, New York, NY

Tickets $15-$18 at www.FringeNYC.org
Visit www.depthcharge.us for info, trailers, and updates!

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