The Brick Theater, Inc. and The Debate Society Present YOU’RE WELCOME

The Brick Theater, Inc. and The Debate Society present YOU'RE WELCOME: A cycle of bad plays by The Debate Society

http://thedebatesociety.org/

Shhhhh. Close your eyes. Let the smell of the theater envelope you. Now open your eyes and still your beating heart. Take the hand of the person next to you and kiss it gently. Now smell your hand. The play is beginning and the way it will make you feel is all right, surely.

You're Welcome is a collection of 5 small plays about creation and failure; a unified theatrical myth that tells the story of an invented band of performers and their catastrophic attempts at connection. The plays are also about love, death, desire, tragedy, comedy, drunk driving, sexiness, beauty, loss, the battle between good and evil, a baby born wearing a hat. And theater. They're about theater. Kind of the last word on theater. This is You're Welcome - 5 plays that pretty much nail it. You're welcome.

Featuring Hannah Bos*, Michael Cyril Creighton* and Paul Thureen, Written by Paul Thureen and Hannah Bos* Directed and developed by Oliver Butler

Costume Design - Sydney Maresca, Lighting Design - Mike Riggs, Sound Design - Nathan Leigh

All tickets: $18

February 4 - February 27, 2010 Thu - Sat @ 8pm

Only at The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. All tickets available at http://www.bricktheater.com or by calling Theatermania (212-352-3101)

"You're Welcome" was a Dixon Place Mondo Cané! Commission, made possible with generous support from NYSCA, a
state agency: The Jerome Foundation: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation & the Peg Santvoord Foundation.

The Debate Society is a Brooklyn based company that creates new plays through the collaboration of Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen (writer/performers) and Oliver Butler (director/developer). The company specializes in creating unexpected stories set in supremely intricate, vividly theatrical worlds.

The trio's plays include A Thought About Raya (The Brick), The Snow Hen, You're Welcome, Detroit, The Eaten Heart (Ontological-Hysteric Theater) and Cape Disappointment (PS122). The company's past tour destinations include Portland, OR, Austin, TX, Hartford, CT, Martha's Vineyard, MA and Syracuse, NY. The Debate Society's play Cape Disappointment was recently published in PLAY A JOURNAL OF PLAYS. The company is currently developing a new play to premiere in May at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater.

Hannah Bos (Writer/Performer) is a founding member of The Debate Society, co-writing and starring in A Thought About Raya, The Snow Hen, You're Welcome, The Eaten Heart and Cape Disappointment. Recent performances include Hostage Song, Andrei Serban's Lysistrata, The Pumpkin Pie Show, Ringside Seats (The Belt), Cardiac Shadow (P.S. 122), and Junta High (P.S. 122). Regional: Three Farces and a Funeral and Janos Szasz' Marat/Sade (The
American Repertory Theatre). She is also the co-creator/writer of The Mimi and Flo Show, a choose-your-own-Web-venture web series. She studied at The Piven Theatre Workshop, Vassar College and holds an M.F.A. from the Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University/Moscow Art Theater.

Paul Thureen (Writer/Performer) is a founding member of The Debate Society, co-writing and starring in A Thought About Raya, The Snow Hen, You're Welcome, The Eaten Heart and Cape Disappointment. Recent New York and international performances include Hostage Song, Clay McLeod Chapman's The Pumpkin Pie Show at P.S. 122, One Year Lease's tour of Oresteia in Athens and Milan, and Tango 'til They're Sore at The Flea. Regional: The Description of the World, Facade, and Pulcinella (Theatre de la Jeune Lune). TV: The Late Show with David Letterman and The
Revolution (History Channel).

Oliver Butler (Director) is a founding member of The Debate Society and has directed and toured with the company. In New York Mr. Butler has directed the world premieres of The Eaten Heart, The Snow Hen, Red-HairEd Thomas, Hostage Song, A Thought About Raya, You're Welcome, Christmas with the Flamingos, and Sold Out: The Rock Musical. He was the Assistant Artistic Director of The Berkshire Theatre Festival where he directed The Einstein Project and This is our Youth. Mr. Butler has assisted directors including Jo Bonney, Pam Mackinnon, and John Rando.

Only at The Brick

Winner of The New York Innovative Theatre Awards' 2009 Café Cino Fellowship Award!

The Brick 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 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), 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), 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.

Visit http://www.bricktheater.com for more.