The Brick Theater, Inc. and Laboratory Theater Present GIT ALONG LIL DOGGIES

The Brick Theater, Inc. and Laboratory Theater present GIT ALONG LIL DOGGIES from October 14 - October 30, 2010

Thu - Sat @ 8pm

http://www.laboratorytheater.org

See a video clip here!
http://vimeo.com/5935810

Brokeback Mountain meets Naked Lunch in Laboratory Theater's newest work: a meditative, cowboy dance-drama about the spiritual imprint of the windswept landscape of the American west. In an impressionistic narrative drawn from a variety of sources, two outlaws on the trail of an old adversary take work as jewel thieves for a washed up brothel madam. In a chance encounter with a traveling magician, they locate their enemy and conjure the violent forces of nature through sex-magic to take revenge.

GIT ALONG LIL DOGGIES commingles elements of William S. Burroughs' novel "The Place of Dead Roads", with short stories by Annie Proulx, country-western line dance, and gay pornography. The performance unfolds against a projected video landscape of repainted Marlboro cigarette TV commercials and within an immersive soundscape incorporating country-western recordings from the 1920's-30's and contemporary new age music for pedal steel guitar.

Laboratory Theater's signature layering of choreography, text, sound, improvisation, and imitation, provides a continuously shifting framework for a reconsideration of the outlaw, frontier spirit that continues to shape the mindsets of Americans in the 21st Century.

Directed by Yvan Greenberg, with Corey Dargel, Sheila Donovan, Oleg Dubson, and Wil Smith.

All tickets: $18

October 14 - October 30, 2010
Thu - Sat @ 8pm

Only at The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
All tickets available at www.bricktheater.com or by calling Theatermania (212-352-3101)

Laboratory Theater is a Brooklyn-based experimental theater ensemble dedicated to the creation of original, interdisciplinary work for the theater under the direction of Yvan Greenberg. For more info: http://www.laboratorytheater.org. GIT ALONG LIL DOGGIES was developed, in part, through work-in-progress performances presented by Dixon Place, February 2009.

What the press has said about Laboratory Theater's work: "ironic, weird, experimental, anti-dramatic, and compelling"-Alisa Solomon, The Village Voice; "Inane, insane, mundane...esthetic purity under the guise of the absurd."-Amanda MacBlane, NY Press; "a clearly collaborative effort of high order...beyond amazing..."-David Fuller, nytheater.com;

Yvan Greenberg (director/choreographer) founded Laboratory Theater in 2001. His work has been presented in New York by PS 122, HERE Arts Center, The Brick Theater, Dixon Place, The Tank, chashama, TIXE, New Dramatists, The Performing Garage, The Knitting Factory, and Movement Research, among others. In 2007, Laboratory Theater helpEd Dixon Place establish their on-going artist residency program. Greenberg was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship in 2006. In addition to his work with Laboratory Theater, he directs Una Corda, a solo performance ritual, by Austin-based artist kt shorb, and Murphy, an experimental music-theater piece by composer Corey Dargel and playwright Honor Molloy, awarded the New Dramatists' 2007 Frederick Loewe Award in Musical Theater. Greenberg has choreographed two other pieces by Dargel, Thirteen Near-Death Experiences (2009), and Removable Parts (2008). Greenberg is also an associate member of The Wooster Group.

Corey Dargel is a Texas-born, Brooklyn-based composer, singer, and actor whom the New Yorker magazine calls "a baroquely unclassifiable artist...at once uproarious and harrowing." Dargel was nominated for Outstanding Solo Performance in the 2008 New York Innovative Theatre Awards, and his original music-theater work, Removable Parts, won the award for Outstanding Performance-Art Production. Dargel's theatrical song cycles have been presented by HERE Arts Center, The Public Theater's Under The Radar Festival, the Warhol Museum, Nautilus Music-Theater, and Performance Space 122. His third album, Someone Will Take Care of Me, was released in May of 2010 by New Amsterdam Records. For more, visit www.coreydargel.com.

Sheila Donovan is originally from Hudson, Massachusetts. She has been a member of Laboratory Theater since 2001. Donovan is a self-taught musician and sang for the Brooklyn-based band Tallboys. Most recently she has collaborated with musicians from the No Neck Blues Band and Volcano the Bear as the band Amolvacy, in which she sings and plays violin, drums, and other instruments. Amolvacy has released two albums, Hohokus, in 2007, and A La Lu La, in 2009. Donovan is also in the band Womb Sharks, in which she sings and plays drums with a member of The Mazing Vids.

Oleg Dubson was born and raised in Minsk, Belarus, where he was a member of theater-studio Class-A! He moved to New York in 1998, studied filmmaking and continued his theatrical endeavors with the experimental troupe Science Project. Dubson has been part of Laboratory Theater since 2003. His latest short film, Self, was shown at the Berlin and Sarajevo Film Festivals.

Wil Smith is a composer and performer based in Brooklyn and began performing with Laboratory Theater in 2009. His work spans traditional and popular styles, integrating electronics, theatrics, and improvisation. Smith's music has been performed in venues across the US, including REDCAT Theatre in LA with the California Ear Unit, MATA Interval series in Brooklyn, The Wulf in downtown LA, New Directions Cello Festival in Ithaca, and Bang On A Can summer music festival at MassMOCA. He regularly performs jazz, classical, and improvised music on piano and organ, and curates a new music series in Brooklyn called "Music At First."

Only at The Brick

Winner of The New York Innovative Theatre Awards' 2009 Café Cino Fellowship Award!

The Brick 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, see http://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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