'Suspicious Package' Begins June 1st at the Brick

The Brick Theater, Inc. presents a Fifth Wall production SUSPICIOUS PACKAGE: an interactive noir as part of The Film Festival: A Theater Festival.

Told via Zune Media Players, the story unfolds as audience members (only four 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, SUSPICIOUS PACKAGE immerses its audience within the gritty chiaroscuro world of film noir, where not everything is black and white.

As the story begins, our starring showgirl has fallen ill. Is she faking to get out of her contract? Or is her producer setting her up? Is her sister angling for her part? Will the detective get to the bottom of things before they turn deadly? The audience experiences Suspicious Package not as a detached observer but as a participant. Cast as the Detective, the Starlet, the Heiress, or the Producer in the mean streets of 1940s Williamsburg, will you be a victim of circumstance or the guilty party? Personal video players accompany you through the mystery and prompt you through your lines as you star in the show where technology, reality, theater, and film meet.

Created by mother/daughter team Gyda Arber & Wendy Coyle, Arber is an actress/director, known for her roles in Greed: A Musical Love $tory (Anna Nicole Smith), the English-language premiere of Václav Havel's Mountain Hotel, and Inverse Theater's Midnight Brainwash Revival, and as assistant director of the critically-acclaimed Michael Gardner adaptation of Notes from Underground. Coyle is a writer/translator whose work has appeared in The Tehran Post, The SF Bay Guardian, and The San Francisco Examiner. She is currently working on a novel about her experience in Iran.

Featuring the talents of Gyda Arber, David Arthur Bachrach, Aaron Baker, Jason Godbey, Ian W. Hill, Heath Kelts, Iracel Rivero, Brandi Robinson, Heather Lee Rogers, Ariana Siegel, and Ken Simon.

For more info visit www.thefifthwall.org.

SUSPICIOUS PACKAGE will play at the Brick Theater (575 Metropolitan Ave., Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211). Saturdays and Sundays starting at 4pm, beginning June 1.

All tickets $20. Tickets available through theatermania.com (212-352-3101 or toll-free:1-866-811-4111).

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