"". . . ambitious direction . . . Describing the comings and goings onstage would be a bit like describing an action sequence on film: you sort of have to see it . . . philosophically challenging . . . The cast is uniformly excellent . . . Suffice to say, I heartily recommend a trip out on the 'L' train to see director Hill?s work at the increasingly essential Brick Theater. It?s a rare play that presents three of the foremost mediums of our storytelling (Radio, Theater and Film) in such brilliant and evocative contrast. ."
--Matt Freeman, nytheatre.com
Read the full review HERE
 

In some other time and some other place,
the Last Filmmaker in the World is on display in a zoo that is also a radio station,
allowed only to make films promoting the idea that Film is evil and Radio is good.  
Patronized and tormented by the Owner of the Radio Station and her Associates
(as well as a pair of fascist Zookeepers),
the Filmmaker attempts to plead his case to the audience and hold on to his own values,
even as the case against Film as a positive force is presented with greater clarity
and increasingly violent force.
 
The Brick Theater, Inc. and Gemini CollisionWorks present
Film Is Evil: Radio Is Good
 
By Richard Foreman
Directed and Designed by Ian W. Hill
 

This is the world of Ian W. Hill’s new production of Richard Foreman’s Film Is Evil: Radio Is Good – a world of secret allegiances, confused mental and physical spaces, and divine intervention.  Treating Foreman’s original text the way the author has requested it be dealt with by other directors – removing all indications of Foreman’s original production and working with just his dialogue – Hill creates a new landscape and characters for Foreman’s text, transforming the play while remaining true to it, as well as creating several actual motion picture segments for the play, including the 10-minute-long “Radio Rick in Heaven and Radio Richard in Hell.”
 

featuring  
Peter Bean*, Gita Borovsky, Amy Caitlin Carr, Bryan Enk, Ian W. Hill*,
Carrie Johnson, Roger Nasser, Alyssa Simon*, Moira Stone*, and Adam Swiderski.

*  by permission of AEA – Film Is Evil: Radio Is Good is an Equity-approved Showcase

 

Preview:  Wednesday, February 8 at 8.00 pm

Performances:  
Fridays, February 10 and 24 / Thursday, February 16 /
Saturday, February 18 and Wednesday February 22 at 8.00 pm /
Sundays, February 12 and 26 at 4.00 pm
and Saturday, February 25 at 4.00 pm

(Runs in rep with SYMPHONY OF RATS )

 
Tickets:  $10 -- available at the door (cash only)
or $15 for both shows playing in rep
Reservations:  718.907.3457