The Brick presents
?!: New Works 2025 – Night 15
Featuring: Emma Callahan | Yiseul LeMieux | Company [REDACTED] | Brandon Rumaker | Brian Bock + Derek Smith
April 26, 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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first date by Emma Callahan
Well let me tell you about- Well, um. This is. No then, I guess yeah. Um yeah. Let me, I guess tell you, like. A little about myself.
Directed by Calliope Pina Parker, Choreography by Katerina Belmatch, Dramaturgy by Noah Latty, Sound Design by Teo Hedigan, Performed & Written by Emma Callahan

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.

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

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.

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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