POOR SAILOR to Play The Brick, 5/28-6/6

Filled with authentic sea chanties and idealized sailor dances of old Hollywood, Tugboat Collective's interpretation of S.A. Harkham's iconic and nearly wordless graphic novel comes to the stage for the first time.

Sparely drawn, the story follows a young man who is tempted to leave his wife and unfinished home and go to sea with his brother. By the end of the story, he is physically mutilated, all his seafaring friends are murdered, and and the house still incomplete.

"We started by re-staging the book, frame by frame, as closely as possible. Then, looking even more closely, we tried to stage what it really means to sit, quietly, and look into the distance while wondering what the hell you are. Is the vilest cruelty ever intentional, we wonder? Thus POOR SAILOR is a retelling of a very old story, and a group's investigation into isolation and the search for the self. Anywhere but here. With anyone but you."

TUGBOAT COLLECTIVE, led by Eben Hofferand Joey Wolfslau, is an ensemble theater company interested in the large forces hidden in small moments. Among our tools are music, physical comedy, detailed design, and a surreal approach to movement and language. Our work is for an audience; it is funny, strange, sad, and tries to make more problems than it solves.

Previous pieces include The What Dance (The Brick, 2014 & The Bushwick Starr, 2012), Obedient Steel (HERE, 2013), Jack the Bird (Theatre for the New City, 2013), and Moon and Marble (The Brooklyn Lyceum, 2012).

Featuring Nathaniel Basch-Gould (TRE's You On The Moors Now), John Kurzynowski (Target Margin's The Really Big Once, Theater Reconstruction Ensemble Artistic Director), Megan Hanley (The Syndicate's CIVILITY!), Isabella Sazak (Applied Mechanics' We Are Bandits), and Nick Trotta (. Wrtiting by Chloe C Brown, Isaac Hoffer, and Noah Mease (Hoi Polloi's Republic). Design by Wolfslau, Sound by Hoffer, and Lights by Mike Faba (Pilobolus, Kate Weare).

POOR SAILOR will play at The Brick (579 Metropolitan Ave at Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn) May 28-June 6, Thurs-Sat at 8pm. Tickets ($18) may be purchased online at www.bricktheater.com or by calling 866-811-4111.

The Brick is located at 579 Metropolitan Avenue (between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on the L & G subway lines (L: Lorimer stop; G: Metropolitan stop). For more detailed directions & further information, visit http://www.bricktheater.com. The Brick and its non-profit company, The Brick Theater, Inc. were founded in September of 2002 by Robert Honeywell and Michael Gardner. Formerly an auto-body shop, a storage space and a yoga center, this brick- walled garage was completely refurbished into a state-of-the-art theater complex, with a large sprung floor and professional lighting and sound package.

Winner of THE 2009 CAFFE CINO FELLOWSHIP AWARD, The Brick is Williamsburg, Brooklyn's destination for subversive theatrical experiences. Home to the critically acclaimed premieres of Bouffon Glass Menajoree (NY IT Award Winner-Outstanding Play), Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War (NY IT Award Winner-Outstanding Play), Greed: A Musical Love $tory (NY IT Award Nominee-Outstanding Musical), Red Cloud Rising, Theatre of the Arcade and Suspicious Package(NY IT Award Nominee-Outstanding Play),The Brick has hosted some of downtown theater's most innovative artists, includingJason Grote, Annie Baker, Young Jean Lee, The Debate Society, Banana Bag & Bodiceand Thomas Bradshaw.