The Brick presents
?!: New Works 2025 – Night 13
Featuring: The Duchess Carpathia Bouffray | Annabel Heacock & Valen-Marie Santos | Company [REDACTED] | Brian Bock + Derek Smith
April 24, 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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Coochie Coochie Coup d’Etat by The Duchess Carpathia Bouffray
The Duchess Carpathia Bouffray has fled her home country of Kaftanada, amid a coup. Left to live in all-inclusive resorts that she can’t afford, your Duchess recounts the final days leading up to the ousting of her family, with the help of some judgy puppets, in this musical cabaret adventure.
Written & Directed by Anton Dudley; Music by Michael Cooper and Faye Chiao

The Breakfast by Annabel Heacock & Valen-Marie Santos
Carmen emerges to her family’s breakfast table to describe a disturbing dream. Based on the short story by Amparo Dávila, “The Breakfast” merges puppetry and movement to capture a family intoxicated by the mundane and material, unable to see the underlying horrors of their morning coffees and cocktail dresses.

1-Way Mirror by Company [REDACTED]
1-Way Mirror started with a personal question: are you still your mother’s daughter if you are no longer a woman? To embark on this disentanglement, we developed a practice of ‘doppelgangering’, an experiment of psychoanalytic introjection (the unconscious adoption of another’s characteristics). The practice involves uninterrupted durational mirroring; investigating transmasculinity retroactively through our childhoods.
By Mimi Doan and Cole Stapleton | Directed by Sacha Vega | Music by Slic

Do you like me? by Brian Bock + Derek Smith
A pair of perpetually-bear faced fathers cast a spell of codependent regression in their shared home. Watch as these two pregnant fathers eagerly and endlessly undulate in an attempt to turn an abysmal reality into a circus of cringe-bating and sincerity-chicken.
Written and Performed by Brian Bock + Derek Smith

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