The Brick to Stage Ytheater's TAKE AWAY This October

The Brick Theater, Inc. and Isreali-Palestinian YTheater Project Jerusalem (www.ytheater.org) present TAKE AWAY, running October 12 - 15, 2015.

Created by Bonna Devora Haberman and Kadar Herini, Dana Gleser, with Fidaa Zidan, the production features Qadar Huraini, Dana Gleser, Bat Haviv and Fidaa Zidan.

A profit-seeking entrepreneur-wolf intrudes on a community of garbage harvesters who eat, sleep, shower, work and garden together in a dump -- refugees from conflicts large and small. As she seduces them with hope for redemption from their banal daily life, her plan to develop and divide the sacred hill sows seeds of suspicion and hatred.

Jeopardizing love, Majed turns away from his unsettled affair with Temima to court the wolf, defying the seasoned wisdom of grandmother Zarifa.

Spiraling into war, the community suffers the consequences of resisting responsibility, leaving the question: "How can we build together?"

At the core of the Middle-East conflict, our comic tragedy deals with brokenness, apathy, waste and greed. Intimate exploitations escalate into international violations. Amidst satire and self-reflection, destruction and remorse, we aspire to respect and collaboration among ourselves and with our world.

Ytheater was formed in 2009 as a community-based theater project involving Israeli and Palestinian actors with the intent to change the modes of disagreement from unproductive apathy and aggression into creative engagement. From the material that emerged from deep, unmediated interaction among participants, the co-directors crafted Take Away -- a captivating allegory of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which deals with the way our lives revolve around waste -- discarded objects and people.

"We are Palestinians and Israelis. Our lives and world-views usually exclude one another. We agree about almost nothing. We are positioned in opposition. Our souls are on the line. We burn with the passion of the Middle East. We grope for new pathways -- to break through impasses, to un-lock the grid of violence and to mend what is broken.

Creating theater is our shared language; the stage is our meeting point. We struggle, we do not whitewash. We face difference and difficulty with caring and respect. Awe for life feeds our commitment to persevere, to create, to pry open our own hearts and the hearts of our audiences and participants.

We delve deeply into our behavior, traditions, and societies. We critique, provoke, and even, humbly, propose. We rehearse for better life together. Our audiences experience the shared creativity of Israelis and Palestinians, who disagree about politics, religion, society and specifically, the Middle East. Setting a stage for mutual openness, for a face-to-face encounter with the other, YTheater performs an inspiring model of performed in the context of cross-cultural collaboration and dialogue. We engage audiences with insight and passion, grappling with conflict, sacred space and limited resources. Take Away invokes a fresh discourse based on our common relationship with our environment."

IF YOU GO:

TAKE AWAY

Run time: 90 minutes

Monday, October 12th
Tuesday, October 13th
Wednesday, October 14th
Thursday, October 15th

All performances at 8pm

Tickets: $20.00; $10.00 Student ticket (@Box Office only)

TAKE AWAY will play at The Brick (579 Metropolitan Ave at Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn)

Tickets 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 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, including Jason Grote, Annie Baker, Young Jean Lee, The Debate Society, Banana Bag & Bodice, and Thomas Bradshaw.