
?!: New Works 2025 – Night 8
April 17
$25 – $50
The Brick presents
?!: New Works 2025 – Night 8
Featuring: Matt Romein | Seth Bockley/Make New Species | Rae Su & Paolina Gómez Gonzales | Jo Warren | Meaghan Robichaud
April 17, 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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GOD MODE by Matt Romein
A live cinema theater experiment merging video game engines, facial motion capture, and digital avatars with live performance. Using the trope of a haunted house, audiences are guided through a domestic labyrinth of photo-realistic 3D scans sourced from online real estate listings. Inside these virtual homes, theatrical vignettes unfold, drawing inspiration from Disneyland’s “Dark Rides,” multiplayer video game lobbies, and gun-themed family portraits.
Matt Romein – Creator, Director
James La Bell – Writer
The Ambiguities by Seth Bockley/Make New Species
Notes toward a Melville megamix, “The Ambiguities” is a first stab at a triptych exploring obsession, evil, and madness through the lens of Herman Melville’s three great novels. “Moby Dick” is a very long book and can’t be performed in ten minutes; “Pierre” is unsettling and incestuous; “The Confidence Man” is cryptic and incomprehensible (also quite long). This contemporary adaptation packages the novels in fragments one inside the other — a 19th century literary nesting doll, dressed up for today.
Text + direction by Seth Bockley
Game of Catch by Rae Su & Paolina Gómez Gonzales
On a weekend away, Pao & Rae kill some time with a game of catch… Hope they don’t drop the ball!
Created and performed by Paolina Gómez Gonzales & Rae Su
Neighbors (working title) by Jo Warren
Neighbors (working title) is a dance for eight people that tells non-linear stories about suburbia, the life and death of Jesus Christ, extraterrestrial communication, telepathy, love and living at the end of the world. This work is a series of vignettes – duets, solos and group sections that take place inside imagined living rooms, on lawns and across a great expanse.
Performed by Meg Herzfeld, Nina Guevera, Rose Cole-Cohen, Chloe Engel, Paris Cullen, Sofia Franklin, and Maddie Hopfield
Bushwick Is My Moscow by Meaghan Robichaud
An adaptation of “Three Sisters” by Anton Chekhov.
Written and performed by Meaghan Robichaud | Directed by Hannah Bird
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