Thursday 11/8 7:30pm front room $6 suggested donation
Brooklyn Playwrights Collective Presents
Beyond Brecht
Works inspired by Bertolt Brecht
Beyond Brecht features the Brooklyn Playwrights Collective whose last production was described by NYTheatre.com as a "smart, sharp, and compelling evening of theatre…" and the world premiere of 10 new one-acts with a humorous/political twist, all inspired by Bertolt Brecht.
Interspersed between the one-acts will be songs, musical acts, and multi-media art. This year's festival offers opportunities to catch an eclectic night of theatre by writers Ed Malin, Les Hunter, Felipe Ossa, Maria Micheles, Chris Force, Marcy Wallabout, Jerry Polner, and Will Cordeiro.
Critic Martin Denton, of NYTheatre.com, went on to say about last year’s Brooklyn Playwrights festival, “The plays are all quite funny and, each in its way, subversive.... Best of all, perhaps, is the conception of the evening itself.... [W]e get a glimpse at some fine young playwrights and their collaborators...tough-minded, raw, off-the-wall stuff that would get passive chair-sitters off their duffs.”
Some of this year's one-acts include: “Ms. Un-America Pageant,” by Maria Micheles, “Fulana,” by Felipe Ossa, “Sauté Your Face” & “Thank You for Applying,” by Jerry Polner, “Notes Towards a Dialectic,” by Les Hunter, “The Resistable Rise of Fatlinda Paloka,” by Marcy Wallabout, “Ice Pole,” by Chris Force, “Le Pithecanthrope,” by Ed Malin, and “Pedagogy,” by Will Cordeiro Performing artists include: Richard West, Lissa Moira, Peter Dizozza, Joe Bendik, Johnathan Zalben, Jason Ellis, Margot Lee Sherman, Lauren O'Brien, and Amelia June. The Brooklyn Playwrights Collective is a workshop and theatre group of emerging playwrights from Brooklyn and Queens. They workshop bi-weekly in and around the Park Slope area. What unites this diverse group is their urge to create an alternative to traditional “theater-centric” events by incorporating other types of experimental performance and musical shows onto the stage.
www.brooklynplaywrights.org
Thursday 11/8 10pm front $10
Rumspringa
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Chief
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Darren Weiss
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Savoir Adore - pictured
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+ DJ Griggs
Thursday 11/8 7pm back room free
RAW WORD Readings of Screenplays by Up-and-Coming Writers
Three ten-page screenplay excerpts by up-and-coming writers are performed by up-and-coming actors -- with a film industry guest
feeding back on the cold-read material.
A fun, funny laid-back monthly event for anyone who loves movies, wants to write movies, or is at all interested in theentertainment
industry! Interview with Independent Film Industry Guest at the tail of the event.
Thursday 11/8 10pm back $5
Hold Up Party
with DJ'S Daniel Colby, Shawn Brackbill, & Cale Parks.
special live performance by CALE PARKS from ALOHA
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