Bone Orchard and The Brick Theater, Inc. presents
TIMES 365:24:7
Devised by BONE ORCHARD, Conceived and Directed by ANNA JONES

Out of all the thousands of stories that exist in the world at any given second... What makes "The News"? And how? How is it captured? How is it transmitted - socially and technologically? And how do we absorb the bombardment of narratives that daily course through our lives, vanishing almost as soon as they appear…? Indeed, can we absorb them? Compressing the perpetual, roaring stream of human stories, Bone Orchard returns to The Brick with another immersive and technological experience, this time to explore the ultimately ungraspable phenomenon of the news.

BONE ORCHARD is dedicated to creating powerful and original theatre for our times. It seeks to make boundary-breaking work that incorporates film and photography, and to re-think the experience of theatre each time a new piece is created. Last season, the company developed work that began as The Immediate Present, taking its audiences on a haunting journey through an old coffin factory in Williamsburg. The piece and its themes were further developed into a powerful multimedia experience, The Stubborn Illusion of Time, which played at The Brick in The Film Festival: A Theater Festival and, due to audience demand, was extended into a longer run.

PREVIEWS: Fri 3/13 & Sat 3/14, 8pm - $10
PERFORMANCES: Thu 3/18 through Sat 4/11
Thu-Sat, 8pm - $18

The Brick Theater, Inc. and Terrible Baby Theater Co. present
THE NOSEMAKER'S APPRENTICE:
Confessions of a Medieval Plastic Surgeon
Written by NICK JONES and RACHEL SHUKERT
Directed by EVAN CABNET

A young girl asks her father, where do plastic surgeons come from?  What follows is a fantastical romp through pre-civilized Europe, via the medieval art and science of nosemaking.  Our hero is Gavin, a young orphan rescued from a dismal existence in the Ivanhoe Workhouse for Criminally Impoverished Boys when he is apprenticed with the local Nosemaker, eventually to become one of the finest surgeons in Vienna, cradle of quack medicine.  Using innovative skin grafting techniques and cutting-edge alchemy, Gavin and his master seek only to do the Work of the Almighty by restoring small appendages lost to rat bites, dueling, and syphilis.  But when they are unable to help a powerful and mutilated knight recently returned from the crusades, they find their feet over the fire...literally. This final production in The Brick’s inaugural Mainstage Season is hilarious, subversive, quasi-historical, and thoroughly debauched. . . a fated collaboration between two of New York's most innovative (and troubling) young talents.

PREVIEWS: Fri 4/24 & Sat 4/25, 8pm - $10
PERFORMANCES: Thu 4/30 through Sat 5/23
Thu-Sat, 8pm - $18

Third Lows and The Brick Theater, Inc. present
PENNY DREADFUL:
Season Two
Created by MATT GRAY and BRYAN ENK

Penny Dreadful is a serialized horror suspense adventure mystery created BRYAN ENK and MATT GRAY, presented by THIRD LOWS PRODUCTIONS in association with The Brick Theater, Inc. The year is 1909 and the discovery of a bloodless body has San Francisco abuzz. It will be up to a second-rate showman and an oddball detective of the supernatural to put together the clues - a mysterious hearing aid, a missing creature from the darkest corner of the earth, a secret society bent on world domination, a man who can control earthquakes, and the greatest magic trick ever performed. Audiences can catch up on the story by downloading the episodes or reading the detailed synopses at www.thirdlows.com/pennydreadful

THIRD LOWS PRODUCTIONS is an independent film and theatre company founded in 1992 by BRYAN ENK and based in New York City. Its current projects include Penny Dreadful and the annual horror anthology film series, The Sinister Six, featuring six short horror films by six directors.

PERFORMANCES:
Episode 7: Sat 10/18 at 11pm, Sun 10/19 at 2pm
Episode 8: Sat 11/15 at 11pm, Sun 11/16 at 2pm
Episode 9: Sat 12/13 at 11pm, Sun 12/14 at 2pm
Episode 10: Sat 1/17 at 11pm, Sun 1/18 at 2pm
Episode 11: Sat 2/21 at 11pm, Sun 2/22 at 2pm
Episode 12: Sat 3/28 at 11pm, Sun 3/29 at 2pm
All Performances - $15

Hello, white people. It’s awful being under the thumb of the British. Ever since they slaughtered General Washington at the Battle of Brooklyn, handed our Southern plantations over to the slaves and restricted our settlements to the lands east of the Appalachians, we’ve had little to celebrate. But Lord Oxford feels your pain. With his faithful orphan sidekick Pattie O’Pattycake and a merry band of Colonial actors, he’ll take your mind off the sorry state of the world through songs, skits and tableaux. Don’t worry. Chin up! The Declaration of Independence will live again.

Robert Honeywell brings back many of his actor/collaborators from Every Play Ever Written (“Gleefully funny … a must-see for anyone who has been onstage” – New York Times) and Greed: A Musical Love $tory (“One of the best new musicals in town” – nytheatre.com), for this new Bouffon-inspired musical. Developed with SUE MORRISON and featuring orchestrations by MATT VAN BRINK played live with an onstage band.

PREVIEW: Thu 10/23, 8pm - $10
PERFORMANCES: Fri 10/24 through Sat 11/22
Thu-Sat, 8pm - $18
Plus
ELECTION NIGHT SPECIAL! Tue 11/4, 8pm
Followed by Watching the Returns at The Brick!

A frozen northern country. Mammoths and walruses. The legendary death of a saintly child. A twisted winter celebration. The Granduncle Quadrilogy is a holiday special for a made-up holiday. Listen to Granduncle, ancient storyteller and veteran of an endless war, as he and his fellow citizens mix folktales, fictional ethnology, and war stories to conjure a mordant yet moving portrait of an imaginary icebound world that curiously mirrors our own.

PIPER McKENZIE has been a fixture of the downtown and Brooklyn scenes since being founded by HOPE CARTELLI and JEFF LEWONCZYK in 1998. Called "brazenly experimental, unapologetically populist, and surprisingly endearing" by IndieTheater.org, Piper is dedicated to exploring the middle ground between high and low culture, comedy and tragedy, history and the future. Notable recent productions include this past spring's hit comedy of war and sex Babylon Babylon, the sci-fi romance serial Lady Cryptozoologist, and the celebrated Bizarre Science Fantasy dance-theater series, whose most popular installment, Macbeth Without Words, was a standout of 2007's Pretentious Festival at The Brick. www.pipermckenzie.com

LIMITED ENGAGEMENT!
PREVIEW: Thu 12/4, 8pm - $10
PERFORMANCES: Fri 12/5 through Sat 12/20
Thu-Sat, 8pm - $18
MATINEE: Sat 12/13, 2pm - $18