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?!: New Works 2024 – Night 5
April 13
$20 – $50The Brick presents
?!: New Works 2024 – Night 5
featuring Leonie Bell, Annie White & Johnny Butler, Allyson Dwyer, Alex Beige, Sarah Doh, Isabella Oliva & Karen Xia, Ring Yuqi Yang & Lynn Hodeib
April 13, 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.
Morgen bin ich wieder da by Leonie Bell – April 12 & 13
Early mornings Belated mournings
Surprise house guests Little jigs Big drama
A series of theatrical vignettes
featuring looper songs
pocket projector play +
cassette tape sound
Created + performed by Leonie Bell
A LOCAL GRANDMA project
Find them: leoniebell.org, @leonbellstein
Those Eyes, How Familiar They Seem by Annie White & Johnny Butler – April 13 & 25
The face in the misty lights
Footsteps that you hear down the hall
The laugh that floats on a summer night
Those eyes, how familiar they seem
That was Laura, but she’s only a dream
Created by Annie White and Johnny Butler
Choreography by Annie White
Music by Johnny Butler
Photo by Ed Brookline
Find them: @__anniewhite__ @johnnybutlermusic
Plato’s Gooncave by Allyson Dwyer – April 13 & 14
Plato was reborn in the 1980s and grew up on a steady diet of badass cyberpunk. Now it’s 2024 and he’s a gooner trapped in his gooncave. Can Plato find the courage to escape… does he even want to?
Written by Allyson Dwyer
Directed by Reuven Glezer
Featuring Justin Anselmi with the voice of Theresa Buchheister
Sound and Prop Designer Hannah Birch Carl
Image Credit: Nick Simko
cw: frank discussions of sexuality and porn consumption, suggested nudity
Find them: @peachplumpearpeachplum, @doctorwhovago, @justinanselmi @buchheistertheresa
Fully-Automated Luxury ADHD Simulation by Alex Beige, Sarah Doh, Isabella Oliva, & Karen Xia – April 12 & 13
This fully-automated, immersive neurodiversity simulation is meant to replicate some of the the interpersonal and intrapersonal experiences of ADHD. Sit back, become unable to relax, and enjoy the moment—you won’t be able to remember it thirty minutes from now anyway 😎
Written by Alex Beige, Sarah Doh, Isabella Oliva, Karen Xia
Performed by Alex Beige, Sarah Doh, Isabella Oliva, Karen Xia
cw: strobes, loud noises
Find them: @virtually.alex.beige, @darahsoh, @khali_sykes, @karenxia8
Created & Performed by Ring Yuqi Yang, Lynn Hodeib & Luis Felicano
Two moonstruck monk(ey)s attempt to transcend.
Creative Consultant: Andrew Hurst; Casey Woodall;
Find them: @ringyyang @lynn.hodeib @leezusprime
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