The Brick Theater Presents RAPIER WIT!, Opens 12/13

The Brick Theater, Inc. & En Garde Entertainment, LLC present RAPIER WIT! appearing as part of FIGHT FEST! A celebration of Fight Theater

After a completely sold-out run of "EVOLUTION" in Fight Fest 2009, En Garde Entertainment, returns again to the festival this year with their all-female fight troupe, The Vixens En Garde for a second smash hit
"RAPIER WIT!"

Company: En Garde Entertainment
Written by Alexandra Hastings (inspired by Shakespeare)
Directed by Alexandra Hastings and David Dean Hastings
Fight Directed by David Dean Hastings
www.EnGardeEntertainment.com
It is 1607, and women aren't allowed to perform on the English stage... seven swordswomen gather to illegally swashbuckle their way through Shakespeare's greatest tragedies-- to hilarious end. These smoking hot babes are armed to the teeth with swords, daggers, quarterstaves, whips, and of course Rapier Wit! Throw in some singing, some wrestling, some gender-bending, and some audience participation--and you have one heck of a good time! Join our all female fight troupe The Vixens En Garde in a fast-paced fantastical tribute to the Bard of Avon...Rated R for Violence, Sexuality, & Shakespearean Swearing.
90 minutes

Mon Dec 13 @ 8pm
Fri Dec 17 @ 10:30pm
Thu Jan 6 @ 8pm
Fri Jan 7 @8pm
Sat Jan 8 @ 8pm
Sun Jan 5 @ 5pm

The Vixens En Garde are an all-female fight company that is uniquely modeled after a commedia dell'arte troupe, in that each of the seven members plays the same character from production to production. All of the Vixens have trained extensively in multiple weapons disciplines at the En Garde Academy (founded in 2008), our year round stage combat school located on East 4th street in Greenwich Village. As there are relatively few roles written for women to fight on stage, our focus is to develop new works that explore Shakespeare's iconic male roles without needing to impersonate men, but rather with a theatrical and audience interactive style that glorifies the fact that we are powerful sexy women.

The Brick Theater, Inc. & Piper McKenzie Productions
present
BETHLEHEM OR BUST:
How the Three Kings Teamed Up to Deliver the World's Very First
Christmas Present

Company: Piper McKenzie Productions
Written by Jeff Lewonczyk
Directed by Hope Cartelli
Fight Directed by Adam Swiderski and Alexis Black
www.pipermckenzie.com
Everyone knows about the Three Kings and their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh, but not so many people know about the adventures they had on their way to the manger. Bethlehem or Bust, Piper McKenzie's first-ever family show, envisions the Wise Men as swashbucklers on an action-packed journey where they need to brave all sorts of robbers, monsters, Roman soldiers - and the occasional shepherd - on their way to meet one of history's most famous babies.
(Great for kids age 7 and up!)
75 minutes

Wed Dec 15 @ 8pm
Fri Dec 17 @ 8pm
Sat Dec 18 @ 2pm
Sun Dec 19 @ 2pm
Sat Jan 1 @ 2pm
Sun Jan 2 @ 2pm

FIGHTFEST is a theater festival dedicated to showcasing the art of Stage Combat. Created in 2009 by The Brick (creators of The Kung Fu Importance of Being Earnest, The Ninja Cherry Orchard and Macbeth Without Words), Timothy Haskell (Nightmare, the haunted house sensation) and Abby Marcus and Qui Nguyen of Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company (Soul Samurai and Alice in Slasherland).

All Fight Fest shows will take place at The Brick (575 Metropolitan Avenue between Union and Lorimer, Brooklyn). Tickets ($15) may be purchased online at www.bricktheater.com
or by calling Theatermania at 212-352-3101

Only at The Brick

Williamsburg's Theater

www.bricktheater.com

Winner of THE 2009 CAFFE CINO FELLOWSHIP AWARD, The Brick is Williamsburg, Brooklyn's destination for cutting-edge theatrical experience. Home to the critically acclaimed premieres of Bouffon Glass Menajoree (NY IT Award Winner-Outstanding Play), Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War (NY IT Award Winner-Outstanding Play), Craven Monkey and the Mountain of Fury (NY IT Award Nominee-Outstanding Performance Art Production), Greed: A Musical Love $tory (NY IT Award Nominee-Outstanding Musical), Suspicious Package (NY IT Award Nominee-Outstanding Play), The Brick has hosted some of downtown theater's most innovative artists, including Annie Baker, Young Jean Lee, The Debate Society, Banana Bag & Bodice, Thomas Bradshaw, and Jollyship the Whiz-Bang's Nick Jones. The Brick has also hosted Fight Fest, Game Play: A Celebration of Video Game Theater, three years of the international NY Clown Theatre Festival, Gemini CollisionWorks' August repertory festival (The Collisionworks), The Too Soon Festival, The Antidepressant Festival, You're Welcome, Adventure Quest, The Nosemaker's Apprentice, The Protestants, The Granduncle Quadrilogy, Lord Oxford Presents the Second American Revolution, Live!, Third Lows' 2-year Penny Dreadful serial, Richard Foreman's Harry in Love, The Film Festival: A Theater Festival (featuring Death at Film Forum and The Stubborn Illusion of Time), Babylon Babylon, Notes from Underground, Bitch Macbeth, A Thought about Raya, Secrets History Remembers, The Pretentious Festival (including Every Play Ever Written and Macbeth without Words), Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist/Cleansed, The Death of Griffin Hunter, Untitled Theater Co. #61's Havel Festival, Sexadelic Cemetery, The Kung Fu Importance of Being Earnest, The $ellout Festival, Adventures of Caveman Robot, The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, The Moral Values Festival (featuring Dear Dubya, World Gone Wrong) Tupperware Orgy, Bizarre Science Fantasy, Who Is Wilford Brimley? The Musical, Jenna is nuts, Habitat, In a Strange Room (based on William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying), Assurbanipal Babilla's Assyrian Monkey Fantasy and the Brooklyn premiere of legendary Polish playwright Stanislaw Witkiewicz's The Pragmatists.

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 www.bricktheater.com.