The Brick Theater, Inc. Presents GRUDGE MATCH: DMT VS. SHAKESPEARE: TITUS ANDRONICUS 10/9-24

The Brick Theater, Inc. and DMTHEATRICS (http://dm-theatrics.com ) present GRUDGE MATCH: DMT VS. SHAKESPEARE: TITUS ANDRONICUS

The debut of an exciting new series from the director of BITCH MACBETH (http://www.bricktheater.com/bitchmacbeth) and THE SINISTER URGE (http://dm-theatrics.com/EdFest/EdMasterworksindex.htm )

Written by William Shakespeare
Designed, Produced, and Directed by Frank Cwiklik
Co-Producer Michele Schlossberg

PERFORMANCES:
October 9 through 24, 2009
Wed thru Sun @ 8PM
at The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
one block from the Lorimer stop of the L train / Metropolitan stop of the G train
Tickets available at www.bricktheater.com or Theatermania (212-352-3101)
All tickets are $18

What is GRUDGE MATCH: DMT VS. SHAKESPEARE?
DMT is proud to announce an ambitious program of shows, in which nearly all of the Bard's great works will be ruthlessly mutilated, bent, battered, cut to ribbons and otherwise manhandled: GRUDGE MATCH: DMT VS. SHAKESPEARE. Theater purists will wail, Shakespeare scholars will faint, literature hounds will blanch in horror as the indie theater impresario mercilessly bodyslams the venerated playwright's finest and most beloved works with no regard whatsoever for the rules of etiquette, theater, or fair play!

What is the first GRUDGE MATCH: DMT VS. SHAKESPEARE show?
The first show is TITUS ANDRONICUS Victorious in battle, triumphant in war, chosen by the people to lead, Titus Andronicus has returned home after 10 long years defending the honor, the ethics, the very existence of the nation state she loves -- only to discover that the art of politics and the skirmishes within the halls of power are darker, crueler, and more violent than anything she has
seen on the battlefield. Her nation changed beyond recognition, her leaders corrupt and venal, the rules she lives by mocked and broken, she devises a revenge for her new enemies far worse than anything she could have done at war.

This radical remaking of one of Shakespeare's most controversial works boldly recasts the family Andronici as a matriarchal career military clan, with Titus as the grande dame of Roman warcraft and her sister Marta as the no- nonsense Tribune of the people. Reinvisioning this dark revenge melodrama as a conflict between matriarchs vying for power and justice in a wartorn world, the show's themes of sacrifice, honor, vengeance, and cruelty are thrown into stark relief in a way never before quite envisioned.

Starring Kymberly Tuttle * Sean Phillips * Brianna Tyson
Greg Engebrecht * Ann Breitbach * Fred Backus * Ken Simon
Kristin Woodburn * Adam Samtur * Craig Kelton Peterson
Peter Schwartz * Peter Schuyler * Stephanie Wortel

Visit http://dm-theatrics.com and http://www.bricktheater.com for more.

The Brick Theater is located at 575 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, see 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.

The Brick has been home to numerous critically acclaimed original productions, monthly series and theater festivals, including Amuse Bouche: A NY Clown Theatre Festival Hors D'Oeuvre, 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), Suspicious Package, 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), The Present Perfect, Bouffon Glass Menajoree, Strom Thurmond Is Not a
Racist/Cleansed, The Death of Griffin Hunter, Untitled Theater Co. #61's Havel Festival, Sexadelic Cemetery, Greed: A Musical Love $tory, 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.