Greetings Brick Friends,
We are soaring into the weekend after a beautiful opening for Gestating Baby Volume 2, featuring new work from playwrights Jess Barbagallo and Aeneas Sagar Hemphill. These two pieces speak beautifully to each other as two sides of one. satirical coin. Two more opportunities to catch this dynamic duo TONIGHT (Friday August 5) and TOMORROW (Saturday August 6) at 8pm. Get your tickets now.
But that's not all we have going on this weekend. Saturday afternoon we bid adieu to David J. Tennent's marvelous gallery show Love/Machine with a free closing party August 6, 3-7pm. Last chance to take home one of these uncanny generative works. Stop in for a drink, a good hang, and great art.
Tickets are moving fast and few remain for The Million Underscores' The Observatory on Tuesday August 9. See the disorienting magic that Nicolás Noreña, Timothy Scott, and Hannah Gross create in this singularly stylized piece before it heads west to the ODT Theater in San Francisco. Tickets here.
We are very excited to announce that Blue Fire Burns the Hottest, by Marissa Joyce Stamps and presented by The Exponential Festival, will be making its premiere at The Brick beginning September 16! Blue Fire... was set to premiere way back in January but had to be postponed due to COVID. We have been patiently waiting for this production and can not wait to share it with you. Tickets are available now.
Stop by next weekend for the second installment of the Brick Aux Market of Dreams, with j ewelry, edibles, rugs, booze, garbs, goodies, glams and more on offer from Shawna Tang (aka @cookiesmut), Amun’s Edibles, StuyDYED, Oscar Chavez Designs, Susan Strauss via Kate Zibluk, and Bobby Malbrough Treats. Sunday August 14, 2-5pm at Brick Aux.
Scroll through for all of our upcoming events and classes as well as a fresh set of pics from Flow My Tears (Everybody Dance) by Braulio Cruz, Teri Madonna, and John-Philip Faienza.
We'll see you at the theater soon.
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The Brick presents
Gestating Baby Volume 2:
Jess Barbagallo and Aeneas Sagar Hemphill
August 4-6 at 8pm
Featuring Two New Works
Weekend At Barry’s: Greatest Hits
and The Empire Live! (1/?)
Gestating Baby is a semi-regular series of split bill performances curated by Theresa Buchheister and Ryan William Downey that presents new and unpredictable works across the spectrum of theatrical performing arts. It began in 2013 at The Silent Barn and is now revived at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn, NY.
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Weekend at Barry's: Greatest Hits |
Written & Directed by Jess Barbagallo
Featuring Anna Wilson, Ean Sheehy, Tanya Marquardt, Léoh, Jess Barbagallo & Ryan Gamblin
The cast of Weekend at Barry’s/Lesbian Lighthouse is on vacation—but that doesn’t mean you should have to suffer! In this “Greatest Hits” installment of everyone’s favorite black box cult classic about the highs and lows of making experimental theater in late-stage capitalism, Barry and Co. will take audiences on a tour of their best summer hijinx! Using new words and music stands, get ready for some hot and heavy beach reads, read to you by some sun-kissed cuties.
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Written by Aeneas Sagar Hemphill
Directed by Kristan Seeme
Featuring Ben Natan, McLean Peterson, Nic Sanchez, and Susan Lyl
Part 1 of an epic dark comedy about the World On Terror. The nation celebrates the defeat of the Global Villain, but things aren’t so simple. In the smoke-filled rooms behind the halls of power, the search for the new Villain begins.
In The Empire Live! an ensemble of actors transports us all over the World On Terror: the effects we see and the things we don’t. The plans and dominoes and butterfly wings–and the ordinary people caught in the resulting chaos.
This is Part 1 of the larger piece, focusing on the perspective of the government as they pivot from one Global Villain to the next. In future parts, we will see the many ways consent is manufactured and war leads to occupation and continued cycles of violence. Should go without saying but:
this is Based On a True Story.
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David J. Tennent: Love/Machine
Generative Works: 2014-2022
At Brick Aux Gallery
Closing Party Saturday August 6 3-7pm!
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Brick Aux Presents
David J Tennent: Love/Machine
A selection of generative works on paper and video made in, developed for, and inspired by the artist’s theatrical practice from 2014 – 2022
Join us for the closing party on Saturday, August 6, 3-7pm.
Brick Aux is located at 628 Metropolitan Avenue
Gallery Hours are Saturday & Sunday 12-8
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The Brick and The Exponential Festival Present
Blue Fire Burns the Hottest
by Marissa Joyce Stamps
“This bath ain’t right…”
The mortal fear must be running high in the veins… Two men—two rivals—who, after holding out for years, finally come to a now abandoned boxing ring that their fathers, and their fathers’ fathers, and so on and so forth fought in to fight for their lives and to claim themselves as the “greatest.” In the midst of jabs and hooks, and crosses and uppercuts, they both find themselves, whether consciously or unconsciously, figuring out who they are in relation to higher power.
Blue Fire Burns the Hottest steps into boxing, a sport whose goal is to consciously keep on returning to the ring to inflict pain on another and to constantly study that person all to explore the intersection of hypermasculinity and spirituality, especially for Black men.
Written and Directed by Marissa Joyce Stamps
Produced by Rachel Perez Melian
Performed by Danté Charles Crichlow and Ed Ventura
Stage Management: Siena Yusi
Dramaturgy: Dani Joseph
Scenic and Prop Design: Lucas A Degirolamo
Costume Design: Sterling Gates
There will be a talkback after the performance on September 23, 2022.
Ten $10 tickets will be available at the box office for each performance, first come, first served.
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The Brick presents
Intro to Voice Over – On Mic and In Practice
with Theresa Buchheister and Ryan William Downey
Saturday August 13th 12pm-3pm
In-person @ Brick Aux
628 Metropolitan Ave
Brooklyn, NY
$30-75 sliding scale
Did you start VO as an actorly pivot in pandemic times?
Are you a VO actor who needs practice and critique?
Do you wonder what is missing or what you could do differently when you go out for a VO role?
Theresa Buchheister and Ryan William Downey are excited to get back to teaching in-person and on mic. In this 3 hour workshop, we will do a brief intro into the field (what is the difference between audiobook, cartoon, podcast, video game, commercial?) and then put you through a gauntlet of cold readings in all of these voice over realms.
Each participant will get time on the mic and valuable, personal critique.
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Brick Aux is proud to present
MARKET OF DREAMS
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LEO BIRTHDAY LOVE
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ROLLING BOURBON COHORT
Join us Sunday, August 14 starting at 2pm.
On offer?
-An excellent array of vendors, serving you treats, fashion and gems.
-A new take on the ol’ Bourbon Cohorts
When and How?
2pm-5pm, 6 incredible vendors will be on hand, ready to send you walking with unexpected treats.
2pm-when the bourbon runs out, Brick Aux will be a place where old and new friends come drink bourbon and chat about anything and everything.
***Followed by a extra special birthday celebration for Zeynep Akca***
MARKET OF DREAMS
featuring:
Shawna Tang aka @cookiesmut
Amun’s Edibles
StuyDYED
Oscar Chavez Designs
Susan Strauss via Kate Zibluk
Bobby Malbrough Treats
See You There!
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The Brick presents
Producing Plays with the Resources You Have
with Theresa Buchheister
Saturday August 27th 12pm-3pm In-person
@ Brick Aux 628 Metropolitan Ave Brooklyn, NY
or Saturday September 24 12-3pm via Zoom
$25-100 sliding scale
Are you wanting to make an art project happen in NY?
Is throwing money at a problem an idea that will never resonate with your artistic and personal realities?
Do you cringe at Capitalistic, Commercial, Careerist art and yet need to consider sustainability, resources, and practicality?
Join Theresa Buchheister for a 3 hour workshop on producing and resource management. We will break it down regarding budgets, spaces, money, people, tech, objects, and more.
Theresa puts all of their time and energy into finding ways to work within identifiable resources to make art bubble and explode in NYC. They recognize that it is the hardest place to be an artist and simultaneously the best place.
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The Brick Presents
The Observatory
by The Million Underscores
August 9th at 8pm
The Observatory is an eclectic collection of dance-theater performances that tumble through the history of humanity’s relationship to the sky and the myriads of projections cast upon it. Developed and presented in short, discrete chapters, the piece continuously shifts genres and performative logics, playing with the limits of the audience’s perception and imagination. From lunar landings to interplanetary sex, alien ballets to Babylonian texts, from the dramas of 16th century Renaissance scientists to the astronomy hot line of Walter Mercado, the show journeys where no man has gone before!
The performers manipulate all the lights and sound from onstage as well as mix improvisation and tightly choreographed material with a constant interest in change and the process of perceptual and conceptual reorganization.
The Million Underscores are taking their first show out of town! The Observatory will be performed in San Francisco at ODC Theater. Come to The Brick for a one night only preview! Let’s launch this project to the west coast and beyond! 3,2,1…BLAST OFF!
Created & Performed by
Hannah Gross, Nicolás Noreña, Erin Mullin and Timothy Scott
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The Brick and CUNY PhD Theatre and Performance
department practice+research ensemble Presents
The Ivory Tower and the Open Worlds
August 11, 12, & 13 at 8pm
August 14 at 3pm
Across four days, overlapping and interrelated individuals and assemblies share ways of knowing and critique bases for “knowledge” through a hybrid devised work/conference Audiences are invited to come and go throughout the weekend, encountering actions, social processes, score-based structures, papers, and other forms of performance.
CUNY PhD Theatre and Performance department practice+research ensemble
(in alphabetical order): Jess Applebaum, Stephen Cedars, Jasmeene Francois, Alyssa Hanley, Ash Marinaccio, Esther Neff, Philip Wiles
The Ivory Tower and the Open World is a hybrid devised work and conference created/curated by PhD students in the Theatre and Performance program at CUNY Graduate Center. Through this project, we seek praxis, that is, thinking-actions and practice-theories that contest, challenge, dismantle, and move across divisions between institutional hegemonies and “othered” and “backgrounded” ways of knowing and seeing. Open to the public across four days, towers are torn down in pursuit of “epistemic justice” and worlds are opened through the sharing and trusting of multiplicit (un)knowings as they are expressed through individual and social bodies.
CUNY PhD Theatre and Performance department practice+research ensemble (in alphabetical order): Jess Applebaum, Stephen Cedars, Jasmeene Francois, Alyssa Hanley, Ash Marinaccio, Esther Neff, Philip Wiles.
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Fresh Pics from Flow My Tears
(Everybody Dance)
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photos by Jose Miranda IG: @pelenguino |
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The Brick Presents
You Are the Proletariat, Baby!
by William Sydney
August 18 & 19 at 8pm
Four little plays. We’re covering all the topics tonight: war, pestilence, parricide, Walter Benjamin. And we’re gonna sing about them, real hard. Don’t miss the revolution, baby!
Written & Directed by William Sydney
Performed by Xander Browne, Carina Goebelbecker, and William Sydney
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The Brick Presents
Card Tricks
Created and Performed by Alex Offenkrantz
August 20
8pm
A magician tells you the truth by showing you his diary of card tricks, illustrating several impossible things that have happened in his life. He wants you to know how he feels, and card tricks are the only way he knows how to tell you.
A magician’s girlfriend tricks him into believing she is happy. When the illusion crumbles, he becomes obsessed with why she didn’t tell him the truth. As he searches for an answer, it becomes apparent that nothing is as it seems. He makes it his life’s mission to tell the truth about his experience so he will never hurt anyone the way his girlfriend hurt him. His experience is one of feeling deceived, so he figures that the only way he can share how he really feels is through a deceitful medium: card tricks.
He creates a diary of card tricks, documenting the moments in his life where things weren’t the way he thought. And in creating this diary, he finds an answer as to why she didn’t tell him the truth in the first place.
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The Brick presents
SALON: Tip Toe Through the Two Lips
August 21 at 8pm
Erupting from Title:Point’s SalOn!, The Brick presents SALON seeks to bring together a delightful and wild mix of people sharing 10 minute presentations to entertain, connect, baffle and enliven.
Hosted by Garlan Jude
Featuring:
Chai Tamayo
Shawna Tang
Gabi Shiner
Lauren Miller
Tristan Allen
David Pym
Glace
Peter Mills Weiss
Art by Mark Toneff
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The Brick Presents
The Caitlyn Jenner Show
August 22 at 8pm
FREE
America’s most visible trans woman, Caitlyn Jenner,
hosts a Jerry Springer-style talk show.
Caitlyn Jenner is an Olympic gold medalist, reality tv star, and former candidate for Governor of California. The Caitlyn Jenner Show marks her first foray into the talk show format. She wishes to thank all the remarkable women in her life!
Produced by Joanie Drago
This Event is Free, Just Show Up!
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The Brick Presents
Tin Iso and the Dawn
by Tristan Allen
August 23 & 24 at 8pm
Tin Iso and the Dawn is shadow puppet symphony performed alongside an original, full length album. The project shares the origins of an imaginary world created to give age-old magic life through puppetry and music.
Tin Iso and the Dawn is operated by a solo puppeteer, composed and performed to explore the hidden turnings of a world at its genesis. Lights dim to black as a delicate melody slips into abstraction. Iso awakens to a bang as Tin crashes through the sky forming a hole above, light pours through and they meet. Their journey through shadow brings forth a rising sun and the beginning of life. Innovative puppetry, moving light, and symphonic structure collide in examining the universal longing to make sense of loss and what’s beyond.
Tristan Allen : Creator, Composer, Puppeteer
Jim Freeman : Technical Director
Featuring an opening set of music from Alyse Lamb
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The Brick and Hammer Beaten Sky presents
Heavy Sleeper – Phase One
by Ryan William Downey and Jeff Tobias
August 26 and 27
8pm
doors 730pm
A pulsing red light on the horizon line phasing in and out left to right lifting and falling the shallow breaths of a sleeping killer. That’s where we begin. Through a series of hypnotic vignettes and musical interludes our precious little characters must reckon with the foreboding forces that surround them and exist within them.
I think you should answer that.
featuring Nadia Pinder and Jesse Heffler
visual design by Chris Georges
lighting design by Theresa Buchheister
Join us for a giggle in the graveyard as we make peace with a vengeful ghost, watch an interrogation unfold, and visit with a children’s puppet come to life. Heavy Sleeper is a phone call you don’t want to answer. And, who knows, our old pal Gary may even show up.
Who is that voice that calls to me in the night? Why am I drawn to them?
After party to follow on August 27 9pm-Midnight at The Brick Theater.
Content Warning: This show features fog, strobing effects, and very loud noises.
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The Brick Presents
3.0 — Magazine Cut Out
by Garlan Jude
August 28 and 29
8pm
An unfurling of identifying identity in an unperceivably unidentifiable haze of sex, substance and some more sex. But it’s not at all serious or intellectual; it’s silly and fun with tears and laughter (not to impose upon you how you should react or anything…) Not for the kids, y’all!
Created & Performed by Garlan Jude
Nathan Leigh – Sound Design
Oscar Chavez – Costume Design
Carly Johnson – Tarot Readings
3.0 — Magazine Cut Out is a revamp-spread eagle-evolution of Envy On Fire, first staged by Garlan 3 years ago, later boosted with other stories and voices, and now back to the future as Garlan ruminates with the ghosts. Garlan is stretching their legs, doing their lip trills and warming up their mic as they return to the stage as they’ve never before: to have a commercial SMASH HIT. Come and arrive and have your tarot read by Carly Johnson. Continue coming and arriving and enjoy the terrifically dazical (not a word) ambient sounds of Nathan Leigh. Stay coming and arriving for a performance arty-ish, cabaret adjacent, barely avoiding step-on-a-crack-break-your-mother’s-back leaning memoir solo show wrapped in screaming designs by Oscar Chavez. Becoming, Being and Staying Garlan Jude. There will be costume changes!
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The Brick Presents
Yoga and Contemplative Movement with Marija Krtolica
Thursdays 3:45-5pm @ Brick Aux 628 Metropolitan Ave Brooklyn, NY
This class utilizes principles of the vinyasa (continuous movement with the breath) and yin yoga (receptivity through deep stretching) to relax physical and mental tensions and create a space for accessing the joy of unobstructed motion.
Following a short meditation, in a series of improvisational propositions, participants are invited to explore their anatomical structures, different points of initiation, and spatial & temporal relationships with the environment and each other.
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Marija Krtolica is a teacher, dance-theatre maker, and an interdisciplinary scholar. Her teaching revolves around an ongoing interest in the embodiment, movement, and mental health. Marija has thought yoga for twenty years in Brooklyn and Manhattan, and is very pleased to share her practice with The Brick community. marijakrtolica.com
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The Brick presents
Get Your Act(s) Together
a Workshop/Intensive for Playwrights of All Levels with Carl Holder
This workshop will take place over 8 Zoom sessions,
Mondays from October 10-November 20, 6-9pm ET.
Do you have an idea for a play stuck in your head, or an old draft to revise that’s sitting stuck in your drawer? Come write with us! Shake things up with new techniques and fun, inspiring approaches to add to your toolbox.
Classes will be divided between Lecture/Exercise Sessions where we chat, write, and grow together, then Focused Workshop Meetings where your pages are read aloud for feedback and guidance. Dive in to get new perspectives on your longstanding working practices and the breath of fresh air you need to push your work ahead.
Students can write a new play or revise an existing one over the term and will be given the tools, space, and encouragement to do so. Each writer receives a one-one feedback session during the course and full notes on their final draft, delivered after the class ends.
CarlHolder.com
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Born in Gainesville Florida, Carl Holder received his BFA in Acting from SUNY Purchase (2008), and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU/Tisch (2020). His play Until You Come Back to Me won the 2020 Goldberg Play Prize and was a Finalist for the 2019 Neukom Literary Arts Playwriting Award. Carl was also a Semi-Finalist for The Jerome Fellowship at the Playwrights Center. His play Waiter and Two Octopuses was a Semi-Finalist for the 2019 O’Neill Playwrights Conference and a 2018/19 Finalist for the DVRF Playwrights Program. Charleses received an Honorable Mention for The Relentless Award from The American Playwriting Foundation. Holder has twice been awarded an E-Grant from The Foundation for Contemporary Art for his plays An Intimate Evening with Typhoid Mary, and re:opening. Carl has developed and/or performed work with Incubator Arts Project, EST, Dennis and Victoria Ross Foundation, The Tank, FringeNYC, The Brick, Standard Toykraft, The Gym at Judson, House of Yes, Hearth Gods, Allegra LaViola Gallery, The Gene Frankel, Ice Factory and The New Ohio. Carl has written, acted, and directed as Artistic Director of Glass Bandits Theatre Company since 2008. He’s currently in The Bricks Inaugural Writer’s Group ‘SoundLab’ a residency developing podcasts with playwrights. Carl lives and works in Brooklyn where he writes and cooks delicious treats with his loves, Amelia the beagle and Lucia Hierro, the artist.
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The Brick's programming is supported, in part, by public funds from the
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature .
Subsidized studio space provided by A.R.T./New York Creative Space Grant, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Additional support from Destination: Brooklyn Program, funded by the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams and NYC & Company Foundation, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council.
Additional support from
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