EMILY CLIMBS (MACHINE MECHANT) Begins Tonight at The Brick

Emily Climbs (Machine Méchant) imagines a future looking back on a past that is still in our future. Through a collection of performed materials (an amateur stand up routine, excerpts from a one-woman show, interview transcripts, found documents, role playing scenes, and more)the show explores person-hood of Emily Climbs: a failed science-experiment, a devoted companion, a benign provocateur, a socialized woman struggling with the burden of individualism and the American Dream.

Conceived by Nellie Tinder's Julia May Jonas, and directed by Jonas and Jess Barbagallo, with music by Obie award-winning composer Heather Christian, Emily Climbs examines both the rewards and costs of surrendering your life to something, or someone, greater than yourself.

Covering an inverted timeline spanning from 2035-2140, Nellie Tinder's latest piece is a sci-fi horror-story presented in documentary form. Through this form, we learn the story of Emily Climb's companionship with Kathleen Jackson, the American President whom history holds responsible for ending America's reign as a world superpower, and the details of Emily's life extending procedure that left her in three separate bodies. As the facts of this dystopian world are revealed, Emily Climbs vacillates between high style and discomfiting realism, unified by Christian's a capella score.

Emily Climbs (Machine Méchant) features Hannah Heller*, Kate Schroeder, Caitlin McDonough-Thayer* and Marissa Lark Wallin; written by Julia May Jonas; directed by Jess Barbagallo and Julia May Jonas; assistant directed by Marisa Lark Wallin; songs by Heather Christian; sets by Sara C. Walsh; costumes by Wendy Yang Bailey; lights by Sarah Bruning Johnston; produced by Lingua Franca Arts/Sandra Garner.

*appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association

Performance Schedule
Wednesday, April 15 @ 8pm - preview
Thursday, April 16 @ 8pm - preview
Friday, April 17 @ 8pm - opening night, press performance
Saturday, April 18 @ 8pm - press performance
Sunday, April 19 @5pm
Wednesday, April 22 @ 8pm
Thursday, April 23 @ 8pm
Friday, April 24 @ 8pm
Saturday, April 25 @ 8pm
Sunday, April 26 @ 5pm
Wednesday, April 29 @ 8pm
Thursday, April 30 @ 8pm
Friday, May 1 @ 8pm
Saturday, May 2nd @ 3pm
Saturday, May 2nd @ 8pm

Photo Credit: Matt Andrade

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