The Brick presents
?!: New Works 2025 – Night 12
Featuring: Daphne Silbiger | Yiseul LeMieux | Opal Elwell | Emmanuelle Zagoria / The Department NYC | Brandon Rumaker
April 23, 2025 at 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.

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O, the humanity by Daphne Silbiger
Two astronauts attempt to leave Earth for Mars, while two blue whales try to colonize the Mariana Trench. A play about pioneers, with songs.
Directed by Mike Steele

BU-ck, Buck by Yiseul LeMieux
BU-ck, Buck” is a life-sized human storybook for adults, blending humor, horror, and heartfelt moments. Performed by Yiseul LeMieux, the audience actively engages with and manipulates the story through key actions and words, making their feelings part of the narrative. Inspired by bedtime storytelling, it’s a nostalgic and emotionally complex (personal)experience.

BESTIFUSEDBY: a milky elegy by Opal Elwell
Explores themes of self-sabotage, loss of control, grief, and internal pressure through the metaphor of milk. We follow a milk puppet’s psychological struggle between the desire for control and the influence of conflicting internal forces, and discover how these actions strip away autonomy and lead to self-destruction.
Creative team: Lucien Muller

Out of your mind by Emmanuelle Zagoria / The Department NYC
“Out of Your Mind!” is an experimental, musical, lip-syncing exploration of how what people say, what we see, read, and hear in random life meanderings—sneaks into our heads and takes on a life of its own! There will be talking mannequin heads, sparkly costumes, and live music with synthesizer, looper, and voices bringing it all to life!
Written and composed by Emmanuelle Zagoria | Lighting and set design by Jack Daniel Woods; Produced by The Department NYC

The Tower: Acts of Futility by Brandon Rumaker
When everything falls apart and all hope is lost, what does one do? Sing? Dance? Juggle? What if you’re bad at all those things? Might as well do them anyway and see what happens. The Tower is a depiction of one person failing again and again with magical somethings happening along the way.

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A Note on Accessibility: The Brick Theater is conveniently located off the Lorimer stop on the L train. That stop has an elevator from the street to the platform. Our theater has a driveway leading up to the door, which means you can access it directly from the street without having to go over a curb. Our front door is ADA compliant. There is a small ramp with an ADA compliant grade that leads up to the box office window and further on to the house. We are happy to reserve accessible seats for folks who need them. If you’d like to do so, or if you would like to ask further questions in advance of being in the space, or if you would like to enter in advance of our house opening (due to our seating not being assigned), please email: cameron@bricktheater.com.

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