The Brick presents
?!: New Works 2023 – Night 29
featuring Maria Milagros, Caroline Burkhart, Genevieve Simon, Alyssa Haddad-Chin
August 24, 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.

More Details Coming Soon!

Yemaya Tribute
by Maria Milagros

A burlesque striptease act embodying the spirit of Yemaya through a Puerto Rican lens.

Choreography and costuming by Maria Milagros. Featuring the song Aguanile by Hector Lavoe.

Photo Credit: Mike White

Follow them: @mariamilagrosburlesque

cw: stripping to pasties and g string

Nuclear Family
by Caroline Burkhart

Children are alert to the world’s wonder and danger all at once. Nuclear Family is a dance-theatre piece that examines how the normalization of violence introduced with the Cold War continues to dominate classrooms and households today.

Concept and direction by Caroline Burkhart
Assistant Direction by Lulu Guzman
Devised with the ensemble and featuring: Bobbie Edmunds, Caroline Burkhart, Dan Smyth–Temple, Julliette Holliday, and Scout Watkins
Artwork by Brandon Cobalt

Find them: @careburks / carolineburkhart.com

This Bug Is Gay
by Genevieve Simon and Katherine Wilkinson

THIS BUG IS GAY: a solo queer cabaret, performed entirely in German, using Kafka’s The Metamorphosis to explore how language both liberates and limits us. A work-in-progress excerpt!

Written and performed by Genevieve Simon
Directed by Katherine Wilkinson
Dramaturgical support from Elizagrace Madrone

genevieve-simon.com, katherinewilkinson.com, @genzebeeb @kw.wilks

WO[MAN]
by Alyssa Haddad-Chin

A United States Government Official and a Father show a Mother how her newborn daughter will be raised.

directed by Mackenna Goodrich

Find them:

alyssahaddad.com @alyssahaddad 

mackennagoodrich.com, @ninasamaan, @teddyfischer_haha

Lineups are subject to change.

art by Mark Toneff

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Mask Policy: The Brick strongly encourages but does not require masks for audience members. We are in ongoing conversation with our artists and audiences as we continue to adapt our covid policies and it is subject to change at any time. Thank you.