FIREFACE, THE ORACLE and More Set for The Brick's Fall 2015 Residency Lineup, Beginning Today
By: BWW News Desk Aug. 06, 2015
Artists accepted into The Brick Resident Artist Program have demonstrated the highest level of excellence and invention in the New York theater scene. These are the artists you have only just begun to hear of; presented alongside pedigreed artists who have already won your hearts. They will change your expectation of Off-Off Broadway and they will reinvent the experimental and non-traditional theater world as you know it.
The new season includes the following works and artists:
[AI]
Adapted from ANTHEM By Ayn Rand
with original texts by playwright / director Ran Xia
August 6 - 22, 2015
August 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21 & 22 @ 8pm
[ai] is a new adaptation of Ayn Rand's novella, Anthem, which tells the story of one man's pursuit of individuality in a totalitarian dystopia, where the word "I" was considered unspeakable and the root of all evil.
The protagonist of the story, EQUALITY 7-2521, discovers a tunnel which holds the secret knowledge of the past, and through trials and error, discovers electricity. However, instead of being accepted as an innovator, he becomes condemned by the society and ends up an outcast.
The production incorporates physical movement and is partially devised, with a goal to open up a forum of discussion on controversial issues, such as the tyranny of the majority, the concept of freedom, individuals' need for a community, and within the concept of a community, the difference between sameness and equality.
Tickets: $20 - $35
90 minutes
bricktheater.com for more
FIREFACE
Third Space
Executive Producer Billy Porter
In association with Victoria Le Vine and Celtru Productions.
Written by Marius von Mayenburg
Translated by Maja Zade
Directed by Benjamin Viertel
With: Michelle Veintimilla* (Broadway's The Visit), Tim Creavin, Danielle Delgado*, Paul Albe*, Steven Robertson, and Madeline Wolf.
August 26th - September 5th, 2015
August 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, September 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5
All performances at 7:00pm
The U.S. premiere from Marius von Mayenburg
(http://www.aoiagency.com/marius-von-mayenburg),
author of The Ugly One.
Two pubescent siblings, Kurt and Olga, navigate the inherent violence and unintentional betrayal of growing up -- in all its cruelty, humiliation, and exhilaration within a claustrophobic home. Incest and arson binds Kurt and Olga and destruction results. Their withdrawn parents recognize the damage too late which leads to the ultimate and irreparable climax.
FIREFACE is a frenetic portrayal of the most tempestuous time of a child's development realized through 100 cinematic scenes. Having been translated into 19 languages with productions all over the world, this marks the New York premiere of the award-winning German play.
*Appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association
Tickets: $18
90 minutes
NEVER ODD OR EVEN
Title:Point
Directed by Theresa Buchheister
Written by Ryan William Downey, Theresa Buchheister, Scott Ries & Spencer T. Campbell
September 8 - 19, 2015
September 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 & 19 @ 8pm
From the creators of Biter (Everytime I Turn Around).
Title:Point turn their hectic gaze toward beginnings and endings in the palindromic fever dream, Never Odd or Even. Five isolated human shapes pivot through time and space while navigating the fantastical beasts, dead playwrights, confounding mathematicians, and earnest cowboys they encounter and become.
Title:Point is an experimental theatre company that has been producing work in a wide variety of spaces in NYC and around the US since 2006, among them Incubator Arts Project, AS220, Dixon Place, Lost Horizon Night Market, Invisible Dog, Panoply Performance Lab, Secret Project Robot and many more. Title:Point currently serves as the resident theatre company at The Silent Barn in Brooklyn, NY, where they produce full plays, a monthly salon, marathon readings and screenings, 100% Themed Parties, and their stage version of The Room (titlepoint.org).
Tickets: $18
60 minutes
REREAD ANOTHER
Directed by David Herskovits
September 24 - October 17, 2015
September 24-28, September 30-October 3, October 7-10, and October 16 @ 7:30pm
October 17 @ 4:30pm and 7:30pm
Benefit Performance October 5 @ 7pm
Target Margin Theater revives Reread Another-the critically-acclaimed, fun, fast-moving new work performed only twice before. What's in it? Love and loss and holiday gifts; the remembrance of music past; we climb mountains; Erik Satie is played on the piano; the leaves do fall. "Something kind of wonderful has happened," says Ben Brantley, "performed with tripping grace." Featuring Clare Barron, Purva Bedi, Ugo Chukwu, and introducing Jesse Freedman, Reread Another is the capstone toTarget Margin's season of work by Gertrude Stein.
Target Margin Theater celebrates difference and experiences that are other, alien, and new: "all things counter, original, spare, strange." We aim to delight, challenge and mystify. We aim to change the culture, and for 24 years have been doing just that at theaters throughout New York and all over the world.
Tickets: $30 (excluding $100 Benefit tickets)
50 minutes
THE ORACLE
The Operating Theater Company
Conceived by Jason Schuler
October 22 - 31, 2015
October 22, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30, 31 - exhibitions begin at 7pm,
October 25- exhibitions begin at 2pm
The Operating Theater Company presents a surreal interactive museum exhibition featuring the extraordinary life of Iris Lee, a radical member of the Luddite army, whose severed head has travelled the world, sharing secrets from beyond the grave.
Contributing Artists:
Alison Folland
Eleanor Hutchins
Jennifer McKenna
Ken Nintzel
Eva Peskin
Kourtney Rutherford
Jon Leon Torn
and more...
Tickets: $18
75 minutes
Reservations encouraged
HOW TO GET INTO BUILDINGS
a New Georges production
written by Trish Harnetiaux
directed by Katherine Brook
December 3 - 19, 2015
December 3 - 19 Tuesday-Saturday @ 8pm
Saturday December 12 & Friday December 18 @ 4pm
EXPLODED VIEW = n. An illustration or diagram of a construction that shows its parts separately but in positions that indicate their proper relationships to the whole.
Roger and Lucy meet at a convention. Daphne and Nick break down at a diner. Ethan reads compulsively from his new hit book. Wait...Who's calling please? Oh, it's the Telethon Oracle...Everyone knows you were about to disappear...So sorry, we're out of fish...
HOW TO GET INTO BUILDINGS is an exploded view of love; confusion blends with confidence, time keeps shifting, amateurs are experts, and brunch can be fatal.
Trish Harnetiaux's previous productions include If You Can Get To Buffalo (Incubator Arts Project/Son of Semele) and Welcome to the White Room (Glass Mind Theatre/Baltimore); she developed this play in the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, received her MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College, and is a New Georges Affiliated Artist and current member of Ars Nova Play Group. Director and New Georges Jam member Katherine Brook's recent credits include Pink Melon Joy (Brave New World) and She Is King (Incubator Arts Project). New Georges, in business since 1992, invests in artists (who are women) of assertive imagination - individually, as collaborators and as a community - and advances exuberantly theatrical new plays (like this one!) through productions, several varieties of play development programs, and our indispensable workspace, The Room.
Tickets: $18
All performances at The Brick (579 Metropolitan Ave at Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn). Tickets may be purchased online at www.bricktheater.com or by calling 866-811-4111.
The Brick is located at 579 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, visit 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.
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), The Brick has hosted some of downtown theater's most innovative artists, including Jason Grote, Annie Baker, Young Jean Lee, The Debate Society, Nellie Tinder, The Mad Ones and Thomas Bradshaw.
Pictured: Fireface - Chris Douglass and Michelle Veintimilla. Photo by Louis Stein.
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