Tickets are now on sale to the latest entry in The Brick's legendary Summer Theme Festival Series, THE TOO SOON FESTIVAL, an ode to half-baked notions, frustrated youth, uncomfortable trends, traumatic events, terrifying predictions, raw nerves and un-come-upon comeuppances, performed and presented before their time. Get $15 discounted tickets if you purchase in advance online at www.bricktheater.com or 1-866-811-4111 by May 15. The TOO SOON FESTIVAL will run June 4-27 at The Brick (575 Metropolitan Avenue between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street, Brooklyn).
Chemistry
Written by Danny Bowes & Jillian Tully
Directed by Danny Bowes
Danny and Jillian met one night at a wine bar, and instead of dating, they decided to write a play together. And star in it. Playing each other. The star-cross'd cross dressers develop their show; one thinks they're in love, the other thinks they're just friends. Eventually, through the power of Mexican pop music, endless conversation, and transvestism, they realize that there's more than one kind of CHEMISTRY.
Sun 6/6 @ 5pm, Fri 6/11 @ 7:30pm, Sat 6/12 @ 10:45pm, Tue 6/15 @ 8:45pm, & Thu 6/17 @ 7pm
Dandilion and the Bicycle Powered Cloud Plane
Presented by The Tiny Black Hearts
Written by Heather Coffey & Andy Hadaway
Directed by Heather Coffey
It was just a simple game of jacks in the yard. Just a good older brother teaching his baby sister about greed and gain and skill and domination... Just good clean fun in the yard on a sunny afternoon. Then they came. The Pig People. They came to take her away. Then there could be nothing but hell to pay. There are, as we know, two sides to every story. There is a lot of energy and time that go into destruction, revenge, and vigilante justice. This ingenuity is also what dazzles and amazes and inspires those it is brought against. Dandilion and the Amazing Bicycle Powered Cloud Plane is a simple story of misunderstood motives. There are Pig People. Hijinks are inevitable.
Tue 6/15 @ 7pm, Sat 6/19 @ 1:30pm, Sun 6/20 @ 7pm, Fri 6/25 @ 11:15pm, & Sun 6/27 @ 2pm
Death is a Scream
Written by Esther Crow
Directed by Rabeah Ghaffari
What if you could choose your own "ending"? With the help of a highly skilled Death Agent, you can! And after you buy The Farm, a "Corpsetologist" will make you look like your favorite celebrity, model, or head of state. These and other death-dealing characters await you in Esther Crow's one-woman variety show, Death Is a Scream.
Fri 6/11 @ 9:30pm, Fri 6/18 @ 7pm, Sat 6/19 @ 3pm, Sun 6/20 @ 5pm, & Tue 6/23 @ 7pm
Hack! An I.T. Spaghetti Western
Presented by Hack! Theatrics & Impetuous Theater Group
Written by Crystal Skillman
Directed by John Hurley
When Hedge fund I.T. employees, Cal, Dash, and Jay, discover that they've been hacked - and that the hack is one of them - they scramble to pin it on each other to snag the gold in this ultimate showdown of the Good, the Bad and the Geek. A recent hit at this season's Vampire Cowboys Saloon Series, watching HACK! The Live DVD Cut is just like popping in a DVD to watch your favorite episodes where you even get to select the extras (deleted scenes, bloopers, commentary) that are acted out in front of you!
Thu 6/10 @ 7pm, Sat 6/12 @ 8:45pm, Sun 6/13 @ 2pm, Wed 6/16 @ 7pm, & Sat 6/19 @ 7pm
Happily After Tonight
Written & Directed by Mateo Moreno
Once upon a time, we all heard stories. Stories of princes and princesses, villains defeated, and good triumphing over evil. Each fairy tale our parents told us ended with a charming "Happily Ever After..." But what followed were stories much darker, stories that happened after those famous endings, and they've never been told. Until now. From Sleeping Beauty to Alice in Wonderland to Little Red Riding Hood, we will take everything you think you know and turn it on it's head. Because no one is guaranteed a happy ending here. Welcome to Happily After Tonight. It ain't your parents f*$king fairy tale...
Wed 6/9 @ 7pm, Sun 6/13 @ 8pm, Fri 6/18 @ 8:45pm, Tue 6/22 @ 7pm, & Thu 6/24 @ 7pm
Jeannine's Abortion: A Play in One Trimester
Presented by Old Kent Road
Written by Eric Bland
Directed by Hope Cartelli
Jeannine's Abortion: A Play in One Trimester follows Jeannine and several of her peers over three months in New York City, during which time they exist with one another and Jeannine has an abortion.
Thu 6/24 @ 8:45pm, Fri 6/25 @ 7pm, Sat 6/26 @ 2:30pm, Sun 6/27 @ 6:30pm
