The Brick Announces Peek Pique Peak Featuring Four Evenings Of Split Bills, Running September 7-10

The Brick presents Peek Pique Peak: Split Bills featuring Phillip Christian Smith, lumberob, Lena Engelstein and Jo Warren, Rose Tang, and Nathan Repasz, September 7-10.

 

 

September 7 – Phillip Christian Smith and lumberob

September 8 – Phillip Christian Smith and Lena Engelstein and Jo Warren

September 9 – Lena Engelstein and Jo Warren and Rose Tang

September 10 – Nathan Repasz and lumberob

 

Peek Pique Peak presents glimpses into the artistry and minds of truly unique artists creating in mixed mediums, ranging from dance to music to looping to theater to comedy to vocal experimentation to philosophical examination. It features people at the top of one or more forms and it is not to be missed.

 

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Denizens

 

by Phillip Christian Smith

 

Kate and Todd give an earnest talk to the interns of The Den theatre company in 1997.

 

Playwright: Phillip Christian Smith

Director: Jack Serio

Producer: Jess Lauricello, The Omnivores

 

Kate and Todd actors in their late 20's early 30's hold a first meeting for The Denizens, the intern theatre company for The Den Theatre company in 1997. They are told how it's a real job even though they don't get paid, how they'll get to meet famous actors when they work as waiters at the gala, how some of the girls have even gotten meetings with Harvey in his suite, how the gay ones should be hiding who they are the second they walk in the lobby to audition, and how other than the legit character actors, no one should be fat—it's all standard fare for an intern in the 90's, right.

 

cw: horrible points of view from the 90s

 

 

fitness protection program, a lumberobics demonstration

 

by Rob Erickson with laura peterson

 

We work it out.

 

cw: loud music

 

 

Brother, I'm frightened

 

by Lena Engelstein and Jo Warren

 

An aging abbess wakes with aching feet. A little peasant boy day-dreams as he walks 70 paces from the bakers to the little farm, unattended. They spin until they are lost; they shake themselves free of devilish thoughts – they find union in one another.

 

Created and Performed by Jo Warren & Lena Engelstein

Music by William Moore,

Anonymous 4 (Sacred Harp Singing Group)

 

Lena and Jo sequestered themselves in the old schoolhouses and converted inns of New England in an attempt to transcend the unending vacillation between salvation and despair and this is what they made.

 

 

Weird Shit

 

by Sonic Slut & Her Toys

 

Rose Tang's debut solo talking shit and playing Weird Shit.

 

Written and Performed by Rose Tang

 

Rose Tang debuts her solo act Weird Shit telling stories, throwing bad puns and punchlines talking shit in general. Stone-age musings are mixed with real stories of absurdity she experienced or witnessed over the last 3 decades as an activist and journalist around Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas. If you won't laugh at her Weird Shit, she vows to perform Tangfu, or Ticklefu — she'll come tickle you.

 

Photo by Paul Kennedy

 

cw: swear words

 

 

National Hot Dog Day 2

 

by Nathan Repasz

 

Nonsense enthusiast Nathan Repasz revives his 2020 linguo-percussive collaboration with Mitt Romney and adds a new installment to honor Mitt's 2023 celebration of National Hot Dog Day.

 

by Nathan Repasz, with source material by Mitt Romney

 

National Hot Dog Day is a structured improvisation for object percussion, voice, and an iPad video clip of Mitt Romney, originally live-streamed in the 2020 quarantine. It rhythmically and semiotically probes the artifice of political language via repetition, spontaneous musical evolution, and, ultimately, recapitulation. By repeating a lightly dystopian clip of the android-esque Romney declaring “hot dog” to be his favorite meat, the piece unravels the façade of white Americana – military garb, bipartisan politicking, machine-processed hot dogs – for the corporatist pseudoculture that it is. This performance will feature an all-new portion, as Romney celebrated the holiday again this year with a fresh, abjectly absurd performance.

 

 

The Brick enters its third decade with a bold new vision and an abiding belief in the power of art. With a renewed focus on multi-week theatrical runs and a dynamic line-up of singular one-off events, The Brick is Williamsburg's primary incubator of innovative theater and performing arts. 

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