The Brick presents
?!: New Works 2023 – Night 18
featuring Daniel Holzman, Amanda Xeller, Adin Lenahan, Nick Alselmo
June 21, 2023
8pm

The spiritual successor to The Exponential Festival, ?!:New Works features a veritable slew of experiment(al)(ing) artists from a variety of disciplines presenting brand new work. Working it out. With each other. With you.

Alifornia
by Daniel Holzman in collaboration with Molly Kirschenbaum

Al drives the length of California in search of the last pair of jeans that will fit. A one person show 🤮

Directed by Sam Carbery, Designed by Ava Elizabeth Novak

Featuring Arjun Biju, Rosalie Neal, and Nigel Berkeley as Al

Amanda Xeller

Character comedian, Amanda Xeller, brings her visceral, raw, weird, sick, super silly, dumdumdumdumdum, physical comedy to brand new work.

Written and Performed by Amanda Xeller

Photo credit: Mindy Tucker

FYP
by Adin Lenahan

FYP is a solo show inspired by the TikTok algorithm: an endless parade of contrasting voices ranging from Disney Adults to dying teenagers to haunted surfers to true crime enthusiasts to evangelists to ASMR Reiki practitioners to Nicole Kidman, all speak in no more than one minute intervals and converge to tell a story about nothing (but nothing is ever about nothing).

Sponge vs…
by Nick Alselmo

“Sponge vs…” is a solo that takes a look into the mind of someone struggling with the internal conflict of feeling safe in solace, weighed down by insecurity, and displeased with the false sense of progress in human interactions. Movement and voice are used as a device for the performer to unpack these issues.

Costume/Set Design: Nick Alselmo
Music: Chris Isaak, Flying Lotus, MIKE, Kirby Komodo, Cities Aviv, S. Maharba, & Mtbrd
Photo Credit: Jacob Kruty @retrogradestudiosnyc

Follow them: @nick_alselmo, @pocketfuelgroovers, pocketfuelgroovers.com

Lineups are subject to change.

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