Deadline Extended for GAME PLAY At The Brick

The Brick Theater, Inc. announces extended application deadline for GAME PLAY: A CELEBRATION OF VIDEO GAME PERFORMANCE ART July 7-25, 2010

www.bricktheater.com/gameplay

Applications Now Due April 1, 2010!

Is art playable? Are video games cinematic? Is Machinima theatrical? Are smartphones a stage? Is there an architecture that connects these diverse media forms? What boundaries can be broken within (and without) the walls of an Off-Off Broadway Theater to change your view? With the increasing maturity of the modern video game, the possibilities for multi-media cross-over artworks cry out to be explored.
Boot up your think pad, open your horizon expansion application and prepare to log in to The Brick's

GAME PLAY: A CELEBRATION OF VIDEO GAME PERFORMANCE ART

July 7-25, 2010

Game Play explores the collision of technology, theater, performance art, and video game culture by staging the collaborative work of performance and media artists across the digital spectrum. For 2009, Game Play's inaugural year, works for the celebrated festival included "Adventure Quest," "Thank You But Our Princess is in Another Castle," and "Suspicious Package: Rx". Full coverage at www.bricktheater.com/gameplay2009.

The Brick is extending the Game Play deadline to April 1, 2010. Video Game artists are invited to apply at www.bricktheater.com/applications.

Only at

The Brick

575 Metropolitan Ave.,

Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211

½ a block from the Lorimer stop of the L train

More info at: www.bricktheater.com/applications.

Winner of THE 2009 CAFFE CINO FELLOWSHIP AWARD, The Brick is Williamsburg, Brooklyn's destination for cutting-edge theatrical experience. Home to the critically acclaimed premieres of Bouffon Glass Menajoree (NY IT Award Winner--Outstanding Play), Greed: A Musical Love $tory (NY IT Award Nominee--Outstanding Musical), Suspicious Package (NY IT Award Nominee--Outstanding Play), The Brick has hosted some of downtown theater's most innovative artists, including Young Jean Lee, The Debate Society, Banana Bag & Bodice, Thomas Bradshaw, and Jollyship the Whiz-Bang's Nick Jones. The Brick has also hosted Fight Fest, Amuse Bouche, Game Play: A Celebration of Video Game Theater, The Antidepressant Festival, three years of the international NY Clown Theatre Festival, Gemini CollisionWorks' August repertory festival (The Collisionworks), You're Welcome, Adventure Quest, The Nosemaker's Apprentice, The Protestants, The Granduncle Quadrilogy, Lord Oxford Brings You the Second American Revolution, Live!, Third Lows' 2-year Penny Dreadful serial, Richard Foreman's Harry in Love, The Film Festival: A Theater Festival (featuring Death at Film Forum and The Stubborn Illusion of Time), Babylon Babylon, Notes from Underground, Bitch Macbeth, The Debate Society's A Thought About Raya, Secrets History Remembers, The Pretentious Festival (including Every Play Ever Written and Macbeth Without Words), Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist/Cleansed, The Death of Griffin Hunter, Untitled Theater Co. #61's Havel Festival, Sexadelic Cemetery, The Kung Fu Importance of Being Earnest, The $ellout Festival, Adventures of Caveman Robot, Total Faith in Cosmic Love, The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, The Moral Values Festival (featuring Dear Dubya, World Gone Wrong, My Year of Porn), Tupperware Orgy, Bizarre Science Fantasy, Who is Wilford Brimley? The Musical, Jenna is nuts, Habitat, In a Strange Room (based on William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying), Fallout Follies, Assurbanipal Babilla's Assyrian Monkey Fantasy and the Brooklyn premiere of legendary Polish playwright Stanislaw Witkiewicz's The Pragmatists.