'THE GRANDUNCLE QUADRILOGY' Adds Matinee Show 12/13

The Brick Theater, Inc. and Piper McKenzie present The Granduncle Quadrilogy: Tales from the Land of Ice. A matinnee was added on Saturday, December 13 at 3pm. This is the second of three exclusive podcasts available for download at pipermckenzie.com.

This limited engagement begins on Friday, December 5 through Saturday, December 20, Thursday - Saturday at 8pm (with a matinee on Saturday, December 13, 3pm). Tickets cost $18. The performance takes place at The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn one block from the Lorimer stop of the L train / Metropolitan stop of the G train.

Season Ticket plans are available. All tickets available at www.bricktheater.com.

Written by Jeff Lewonczyk, Directed by Hope Cartelli, "The Dog Who Liked People Too Much" is the second of three exclusive podcasts produced by Yarn AudioWorks (yarnaudioworks.com) and featuring downtown comic favorite Richard Harrington (Hotel California, Nharcolepsy) as Granduncle.  Exploring fables from Granduncle's strange Arctic world, these podcasts are also stand-alone artifacts of  narrative and sonic weirdness.  Available to listen and download at pipermckenzie.com on Tuesday, November 25, it will be followed by "The Flight of the Mammoths" on Tuesday, December 5.  Available online now is the first tale, "The Walrus and the School of Fish."

A frozen northern country. Mammoths and walruses. The legendary death of a saintly child. A twisted winter celebration. The Granduncle Quadrilogy is a holiday special for a made-up holiday. Listen to Granduncle, ancient storyteller and veteran of an endless war, as he and his fellow citizens mix folktales, fictional ethnology, and war stories to conjure a mordant yet moving portrait of an imaginary icebound world that curiously mirrors our own.

Piper McKenzie (pipermckenzie.com) has been a fixture of the downtown and Brooklyn scenes since being founded by Hope Cartelli and Jeff Lewonczyk in 1998. Called "brazenly experimental, unapologetically populist, and surprisingly endearing" by IndieTheater.org, Piper is dedicated to exploring the middle ground between high and low culture, comedy and tragedy, history and the future. Notable recent productions include this past spring's hit comedy of war and sex Babylon Babylon, the sci-fi romance serial Lady Cryptozoologist, and the celebrated Bizarre Science Fantasy dance-theater series, whose most popular installment, Macbeth Without Words, was a standout of 2007's Pretentious Festival at The Brick.

The Granduncle Quadrilogy stars Fred Backus, Ivanna Cullinan, Jessi Gotta, Richard Harrington, Gavin Starr Kendall, and Melissa Roth, with choreography by Jenny Schmermund and fight direction by Qui Nguyen. Also featured will be costume design by Julianne Kroboth, lighting design by Ian W. Hill, prop design by Berit Johnson, and sound design by Mick O'Brien. Roger Nasser is the assistant director, and Chris Connolly is the technical advisor.

The preview and all Friday/Saturday performances will feature custom Granduncle-themed baked goods from "renegade bake sale" Sweet Tooth of the Tiger (sweettoothofthetiger.com).  Additionally, original podcasts of fables from Granduncle's world will be posted to pipermckenzie.com on the three successive Tuesdays leading up to the opening: 11/18, 11/25, and 12/2.

The Granduncle Quadrilogy appears as part of The Brick's inaugural Mainstage Season.  For the first time in its six-year history of providing audacious, high-quality theatrical experience to New York's most cutting-edge audiences, Williamsburg's Brick Theater is packaging six major productions under the umbrella of a single Mainstage Season.  The Brick is also offering a variety of Season Ticket plans to ensure subscribers a first shot at its most exciting offerings to date.

The Granduncle Quadrilogy is open for review at all performances beginning December 5, including the newly added matinee performance on Saturday, December 13 at 3pm.

All works in the Mainstage Season will enjoy full performance runs, preceded by low-cost previews performances. In addition to the mainstage shows, Penny Dreadful, The Brick's ongoing monthly serial – now in its second season! – will air two performances per month of each new episode.  The Brick will also host several workshop performances of new works, as part of its ongoing commitment to developing new theater in New York City (schedule to be announced).

Tickets cost $18 for regular performances.

Three Season Ticket plans cost:

•       $45: The Threefer Pass: Admission to any three prime-time Mainstage shows ($3 off the  regular ticket price!)
•       $60: The Fiver Pass:  Admission to all five of the prime-time Mainstage shows ($6 off the full ticket price!)
•       $115: The Penny Saver Pass:  Admission to all five Mainstage shows, all episodes of Penny Dreadful, and all workshop performances. ($115 - 13 performances for $9 each!).

The Brick Theater is located at 575 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 www.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.  Formerly an auto-body shop, a storage space and a yoga center, this brick- walled garage was completely refurbished into a state-of-the-art theater complex, with a large sprung floor and professional lighting and sound package.

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