The Brick Theater, Inc. and Evolve Company
present

Tanya Khordoc & Barry Weil in

SECRETS HISTORY REMEMBERS


Written, Directed, Designed and Constructed by
Tanya Khordoc & Barry Weil

Original Music & Sounds by Josh McLane
Lighting Designed by Solomon Weisbard
Stage Manager: Berit Johnson

Picture a seven-foot-tall Victorian doll whose body opens up to reveal an entire cast of characters living inside her — singing cereal boxes, dancing pill bottles and giant cigarette packs that blast off into outer space. This doll believes in a world where using the right shampoo could win you the love of your life...but is it really that simple? What happens when you put the easy answers aside and stop choosing to be safe?

SECRETS HISTORY REMEMBERS is the latest from the innovative puppeteers who brought you the world premiere of Vàclav Havel's Motormorphosis, and the comic hit Evolution. Creator/performers Tanya Khordoc and Barry Weil of Evolve Company create a live multimedia collage, using toy theater, object manipulation and projections to take us on a surreal, satiric journey across the decades.

EVOLVE COMPANY (Production Company) has been playing with puppets very seriously since 1996. Past productions include Evolution (at HERE Arts Center, The Puppeteers of America National Festival and The Looking Glass Theatre, among other venues) and NEUROfest's The Boy Who Wanted to be a Robot. They have also contributed to Untitled Theater Co. #61's 24/7 Festival and collaborated on Galileo's Telescope, a puppet epic conceived and directed by Eric Jacobson of Jim Henson's Muppets. Last year, they were given the honor of creating the world premiere production of Motormorphosis, a play by former Czech President Vaclav Havel, as part of UTC #61's Havel Festival in NYC. They are devoted to the promotion of puppetry as a viable art form for adults as well as children.

Press Quotes from previous shows
[About EVOLUTION] "Really intelligent design...it may not be Darwin, but it sure is fun." -- New York Times
"Motormorphosis, directed, designed, and performed by Tanya Khordoc and Barry Weil, is a funny puppet piece that brings to mind Ionesco's Rhinoceros...the two puppeteers interpreting all the roles provide the show with style, unity, and graceful speed." -- nytheatre.com


TANYA KHORDOC (Creator/Performer) is Co-Artistic Director of Evolve Company. Tanya has performed, designed, and directed puppet theater at venues such as HERE, St. Ann’s Warehouse, the Puppeteers of America National Festival, the Eugene O’Neill National Puppetry Conference, and the Children's Museum of Manhattan. She collaborated with Untitled Theater Co. #61 in the 24/7 Festival and on Unauthorized Magic in Oz.

BARRY WEIL (Creator/Performer) is Co-Artistic Director of Evolve Company. Barry has created puppets, masks and creatures for productions that include Hope & Anchor, Unauthorized Magic in Oz, Screaming Shrubbery, Uktena, Aesop's Fables and Feast of the Dead. He has also inhabited the man-eating plant in so many productions of Little Shop of Horrors that he's starting to sprout leaves. In addition, Barry is the assistant director/theatre coordinator of Levels, Long Island's acclaimed cultural center for teenagers.

Wednesday-Saturday, November 14-17 at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, November 18 at 2:00 p.m.

at The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
one block from the Lorimer stop of the L train / Metropolitan stop of the G train
all tickets:  $10.00 -- available at the door (cash only) or through Theatermania.com:  212-352-3101