Applications Now Being Accepted For Comic Book Theater Festival

The influence of comics on our culture continues to grow. From the pop fantasias of Hollywood blockbusters to the rawness and refinement of intimate memoirs - and everything in between - it's impossible to deny the wide appeal of comics' words and images. The theater, of course, is no less immune to its spell. Next summer, The Brick will invite one of history's newest art forms to meet one of its oldest - and the form and content of comics will collide with the content and form of theater to create strange new hybrids across both mediums.

We're also interested in exploring all corners of the medium - superheroes and space opera, sure, but also the fiercely intimate memoirs, the journalistic reportage, the wild personal visions, the uncategorizable stories. And it goes beyond content: we also hope to explore the particularities of form enjoyed by comics, with rigor, imagination and humor.

With every show that we accept into the festival, we hope to see some form of alliance between a comic artist on the one hand and a theater artist on the other. Ideally, each show will have a "staged" component, presented in front of a live audience, and a "printed" component, to be absorbed separately, either on paper or online.

JUNE 2-25, 2011

APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN!

For more information, visit bricktheater.com/comics or write to comics@bricktheater.com.

 

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