The Brick presents
?!: New Works 2025 – Night 9
Featuring: Matt Romein | Sidney San Martin | JoyBoy da Clown | Sophie Tegenu
April 18, 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

Coordinate Space by Sidney San Martin
Laser light makes visible the discovery and exploration of spaces made of sound.
Performed by Sidney San Martin

Farewell My Fool by JoyBoy da Clown
Farewell my fool.
Your time has come.
Starry eyed dreams die
When we’re young.
Featuring JoyBoy da Clown, performed and created by Joy-Marie Thompson, “Farewell My Fool” is a dance theater/performance art piece utilizes clowning and humor to interrogate the legacy of exploitation in performance, the failures of ambition, respectability politics, and self-realization.

Sun by Sophie Tegenu
A girl basks in the sun, hoping to turn into a raisin. Her dog tries to stop her.
Director: Ayana Francois Actors: Samori Etienne and Mahalet Tegenu

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A Note on Health and Safety: The Brick is a mask optional space while remaining committed to the health of all our patrons, artists, and staff. If you need a mask, we have some available at the box office free of charge. If you are feeling ill or have recently been exposed to a virus or other contagion such as COVID-19, please stay at home out of respect for the performers and the other patrons. In the event you cannot make it due to illness or exposure, contact the box office for a refund at boxoffice@bricktheater.com.

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.

Questions about Content? Posted just to the right of the box office at the Brick box, we have a detailed content warning sheet for each production. You can check this list if you so choose. We also will have clearly posted signs where you check in for any productions that use loud sounds, flashing lights, fog, or similar.