The Granduncle Quadrilogy: Tales from the Land of Ice
The Brick Theater (575 Metropolitan Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11211)
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The last date listed for The Granduncle Quadrilogy: Tales from the Land of Ice was Thursday December 18, 2008 / 8:00pm.
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Awesome. A Piper McKenzie Christmas feast--original, uncompromising, and fantastical. The show has the frisson of telling a small child that Santa doesn't exist, but he's still getting lots of Christmas presents--the philosophy and longview may be trying and bleak, but the moments of actual life before one's eyes are full of thrills and gifts. The sense of play, which entertains and excites throughout, seems to mask for the time-being the rites and the ridiculousness of our world--food for thought that fed me on the subway ride home. Granduncle's delivery pretty much sets this tone and puts in motion these happy contradictions. Classic Piper. Smart, funny, authentic. Congrats cast/crew and Hope & Jeff, if you really are two separate people. --Eric BlandWritten on Dec 15 2008
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Description
A frozen northern country. Mammoths and walruses. The legendary death of a saintly child. A twisted winter celebration.
The Granduncle Quadrilogy is a holiday special for a made-up holiday.
Listen to Granduncle, ancient storyteller and veteran of an endless war, as he and his fellow citizens mix folktales, fictional ethnology, and war stories to conjure a mordant yet moving portrait of an imaginary icebound world that curiously mirrors our own.
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).