The Brick Theater (Brooklyn, NY)
Utilizing World of Warcraft, Halo 3 and Grand Theft Auto 4, Machinima Theater auteur Eddie Kim presents four classical theater texts, as performed by online video game characters manipulated by gamers live on stage. They will perform the stories of Niobe and the Japanese poet, Ono no Komachi as never before.
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A very enjoyable experience in a tiny theater. I would say that each of the 4 performance segments was better than the previous, leading up to a final piece that was surprisingly moving, particularly considering the medium.
That this production seemed to be performed and staffed mostly by teens only added to the impact of appreciating the quality of the art. I and my friends are very glad we got to see this.
Video games as digital puppetry! Technicians will use several X-Box 360 consoles and laptops linked to each other and to gamers over the internet to control digital characters in real-time in front of an audience.
A digital movement piece, chiptunes interludes and a version of Alvin Lucier's legendary "I am Sitting in a Room" also will be presented.
Including live chiptune performance by OxygenStar!
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).