The Brick presents
?!: New Works 2024 – Night 10
featuring James La Bella, Jueun Kang & Che’Li, Mars Garcia, Mariam Dingilian
April 19, 2024
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.

An Adaptation of That King of the Hill Episode Where Peggy Falls Out of a Plane by James La Bella – April 9 & 19

Rural Texas, late 90s. Peggy Hill is in a full-body cast after a skydiving incident. Her father-in-law has just welcomed a new baby with his much younger wife. Now they’re in the same house. A sitcom episode torn apart and reconstructed as a ‘high art’ taut new-play drama, which unfolds with eerie undertones of its chuckle-hut past.

James La Bella – Playwright and Composer

Emma Richmond – Director

Matthew Antoci – Producer

Meaghan Robichaud – Creative Everyperson

Luke Taylor – King of the Hill Consultant;

Peggy Hill – Kallan Dana
Hank Hill – Chris Erdman
Bobby Hill – Sterling Gates
Didi Hill – Sarah Grace Goldman
Cotton Hill – Arjun Biju

Props Designer – Minna Lee
Guitar – Pete Richmond

Design by Amar Ahmad 

CW: Loud noises; discussion of suicide, self-harm, PTSD; mild violence involving an infant

Find them: @james.la.bella, @emma.richmond; @antociantoci; @meaghanrobi

Some Nobodies! by Jueun Kang and Che’Li – April 19 & 21

Gunny and Chiku are the lonely kings of two uncomplete countries who encounter each other in this personal coming-of-age epic, based on Emily Dickinson’s poem, “I am Nobody! Who are You?”. Together, they uncover exiled parts of each other that long for companionship in a disintegrating playpen. The two gossip through grotesque puppetry and clown, indulging their mocking hearts and sanctifying fugitive shelter for their most ugly and beautiful selves.

Gunny: Jueun Kang

Chiku: Che’Li

Image Credit: Jayquel Michael

cw: body horror; audience participation; chronic existentialism

Find them: @kangjujuuu @cialikethey @madang.teatro

[REDACTED] at birth – Excerpt 1 by Mars Garcia – April 18 & 19

Get out of your seat, label me baby, come on I’m waiting. Come closer honey and smell my green tuft of hair. Can’t you tell what I am? Don’t take too long to decide, the show must go on.

Mars Garcia: Movement Director, Performer, Costume Designer

Alexander Millar: Sound Designer, Performer

Lead Image Artist & Photographer: Mars Garcia

Production Assistant/Usher: Uila Marx

cw: gender violence, cissexism

Accessibility Note: performance includes invitation to come down to the stage space (optional).

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The image is a hand drawing by Mars Garcia. Two translucent papers, tinted lime green, are layered and display swirling black ink. A thick marker was used to draw two hands on the back-most paper, reaching skyward out from behind the edge of the foremost paper. The rest of the thick ink is a blurry array of diagonal curves, shadowed behind the foremost layer of connected thin lines. The foremost drawing features looping arches, jags, and corners to resemble a hand, an oval head, eye brows, a mouth, and a torso. Four hole punches in the middle of the head resemble eyes, and shine a lighter green than the rest of the image. From a distance these details are less distinct, and the image resembles 2 young trees, with 5 branches each, growing out of a whirling green tornado.

Find them: @marsgarcia_works; marsgarcia.com

Aquatic Meadow by Mariam Dingilian

April 19 & 24

A new solo-dance-comedy-drama-improvisation gone awry. As the piece unfolds, it drifts and wanders through new landscapes…tension ensues…leading to the unknown!

Written, Choreographed, and Performed by Mariam Dingilian

Poster Design by Neena Holzman @pigeons.grotto

Created with support from Monira Foundation. Special thanks to The Brick, Neena Holzman, and Ella Wasserman-Smith

Find them: mariamdingilian.com

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