THE BRICK and GCW Present MY FIRST AUTOGRACE HOMEOGRAPHY

Gemini CollisionWorks and The Brick Theater, Inc. present My First Autograce Homeography (1973-1974) Nov. 14-27, written by Julia Lee Barclay-Morton, designed and directed by Ian W. Hill, assisted by Berit Johnson, performed by John Amir, David Arthur Bachrach*, Olivia Baseman*, Derrick Peterson*, Alyssa Simon*, and Stephanie Willing at THE BRICK579 Metropolitan Avenue (at Lorimer), Brooklyn, NY(L Train to Lorimer / G Train to Metropolitan-Grand).

*Appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association

Terror and repression. The exorcism frenzy. A year in a life, 40 years ago, in sound, image, and movements, with the power, certainty, and translucence of memory. Knives, AM radio, absent parents and a caretaker gone mad, the backseats of big American cars, a bionic man, board games, kidnapping, resignation. Shake hands with Captain Howdy, Patricia.

Award-winning writer Julia Lee Barclay-Morton looks back on her own life, and cuts it up into a suggestive, abstract collage of splintered memories. Designer/director Ian W. Hill connects the pieces in a complex web of period music, video, and movement. Combined, through a fog of memory and pop culture, appears the story of a young girl trying to form an identity when her authority figures can't hang onto their own, in a year when the USA appears to have been doing the same.

The radio dial spins. The waves bounce off the atmosphere and come down, mixing with each other. The Six Million Dollar Man looks for the kidnapped heiress. Over 50 of your favorite AM Radio hits, all in this new new compilation! "By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of that process of healing which is so desperately needed in America." But wait, there's more...

Performances are:

Friday, November 14 @ 8.00 pm
Saturday, November 15 @ 8.00 pm
Sunday, November 16 @ 8.00 pm
Monday, November 17 @ 8.00 pm
Wednesday, November 19 @ 8.00 pm
Thursday, November 20 @ 8.00 pm
Friday, November 21 @ 8.00 pm
Saturday, November 22 @ 4.00 pm
Saturday, November 22 @ 8.00 pm

tickets $18.00

available at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/940714

Dr. Julia Lee Barclay is an award-winning writer and director whose work has been published and produced internationally. She was Artistic Director of Apocryphal Theatre from 2004-11. She has directed and taught workshops in techniques discovered in labs she led in NYC and London at many universities, conferences and venues throughout Europe and the US. She teaches writing at Fordham University and has taught theater and performance writing at many universities in the UK and US.

Ian W. Hill has been producing theater as Gemini CollisionWorks since 1997, after acting and designing for many NYC companies the decade prior, and has designed & directed acclaimed productions of the work of Vaclav Havel, Mac Wellman, Clive Barker, Jeff Goode, Trav S.D., Marc Spitz, and numerous other writers, as well as his own original plays and collages. He produced the first (and multi-year) festival of the work of Richard Foreman, NO STRINGS ATTACHED, in the late 90s at NADA, and is now the Technical Director of The Brick, where he produces and curates the annual Tiny Theater festival.

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