The Brick presents
Stories Will Not Mend This Broken World
Identity Crisis Theater in collaboration with LPAC (LaGuardia Performing Arts Center)
at Brick Aux Studio — 628 Metropolitan Ave
October 30 – November 15, 2025
Tickets $25-50
Running time 75 minutes

Cast: Francisco Arcila, Ed Jr Cardenas, Gamze Ceylan*, Doğa Özbilun, Defne Özkan
Stage Manager: Iyleen Torres
Lighting Designer: Casey Duke
Sound Designer: Mark Alberto McKnight

A group of Istanbul theater artists struggles to regain their footing in the aftermath of the 2023 earthquake that devastated Turkey and Syria. Alternating between gallows humor and grief, Stories Will Not Mend This Broken World explores the impact of large-scale violence on those who witness it from afar—and the unshakable drive to create new worlds through art, even when that work feels futile.

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*Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors’ Equity Association without benefit of an Equity contract in this Off-Off Broadway production.

Poster image: Deep Within by Ebru Zarakolu

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