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Description

Kill Me Like You Mean It is the second installment of Stolen Chair Theatre Company's CineTheatre Tetralogy (four years, four productions, four classic film styles adapted for the stage). After a sold-out critically acclaimed run in 2007, this visually stunning production will be restaged entirely behind a movie screen.

A leggy redhead is shot dead in the middle of her nightclub act and Ben Farrell, American private detective, is on the case. The list of suspects grows to include a fatalistic femme fatale, an avaricious publisher, and a millionaire playboy who pens a serialized crime novel called Kill Me Like You Mean It. Turns out that art imitates life and Ben Farrell finds his own life in the pages of the playboy’s pulp fiction, while the redhead’s simple murder mystery quickly degenerates into a sick game for which Farrell never learned the rules.

Directed by Jon Stancato

Starring David Berent, Stanley Brode, Cameron J. Oro, Emily Otto, Sarah Stephens and Alexia Vernon.

Kill Me Like You Mean It is part of The Film Festival: A Theater Festival.

Chosen as “Best of Manhattan 2007” by New York Press, The Stolen Chair Theatre Company is a critically acclaimed award-winning collaborative theatre laboratory dedicated to theft, recycling and re-examination of historical performance styles, creating visually stunning and uniquely contemporary work where the earnest and ironic happily coexist. Since its inception in 2002, Stolen Chair has created 11 critically acclaimed original works including their tragic swashbuckler The Accidental Patriot: The Lamentable Tragedy of the Pirate Desmond Connelly, Irish by Birth, English by Blood, and American by Inclination (CineTheatre #3), the masked farce Commedia dell' Artemisia, and Kinderspiel, the totally fabricated true story of a kinky Weimar cabaret. Their 2005 silent film for the stage (CineTheatre #1) was published in the anthology Playing With Canons: Explosive New Works from Great Literature by America's Indie Playwrights.

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).