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Fassbinder's Violent Comedy Blood on the Cat's Neck at The Brick

The Brick Theater (575 Metropolitan Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11211)
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Gemini CollisionWorks and The Brick Theater bring iconoclastic German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder's satiric 1971 play to the stage. Blood, also sometimes known as Marilyn Monroe vs. The Vampires, follows a beautiful blonde space alien as she attempts to learn about human beings at a cocktail party. When talking proves unsuccessful, she resorts to vampirism.

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Quotes & Highlights

  • "Theatrically effective... Mr. Hill and his skilled cast get the Fassbinder tone -- a wry dinginess -- just right." --The New York Times

Description

by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Sometimes subtitled Marilyn Monroe vs. The Vampires, Blood on the Cat's Neck is a 1971 play by the iconoclastic playwright/filmmaker in which a beautiful, blonde, vampiric Amazon of a space alien is dropped into a bourgeois cocktail party of an unlikely group of guests to attempt to learn about human beings, without much success, until her plundering of the guests’ minds becomes a more direct and physical acquisition of their life essences.

Performed by Gyda Arber, Eric C. Bailey, Danny Bowes, V. Orion Delwaterman, Rasheed Hinds, Toya Lillard, Samantha Mason, Amy Overman, Roger Nasser, Shelley Ray

About the Ticket Supplier: The Brick Theater

The Brick and its company, The Brick Theater, Inc., were founded in 2002 by Robert Honeywell and Michael Gardner. Formerly an auto-body shop, a yoga center, and various storage spaces, this brick-walled garage in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was completely refurbished as a state-of-the-art performance space.

The Brick has been home to many critically acclaimed premieres, including Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Bizarre Science Fantasy, Tupperware Orgy, In a Strange Room (based on Faulkner's As I Lay Dying), Dear Dubya, Fallout Follies, World Gone Wrong, My Year of Porn, Who Is Wilford Brimley?, Jenna Is Nuts, Habitat, Absence of Magic, Assyrian Monkey Fantasy (in two movements), and The Pragmatists.

The Summer Theme Festival Series presented The Hell Festival in 2004, The Moral Values Festival in 2005, The $ellout Festival in 2006, and continues with The Pretentious Festival in Summer 2007. In addition, The Brick has also produced a short-works program called Brick-a-Brac, a collection of holiday-themed one-act plays known as The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee, and the hugely successful New York Clown Theatre Festival (the first of its kind in New York in more than 20 years).