'Kill Me Loudly' opens at Brick Theater as Part of Clown Theatre Festival

The Brick Theater, Inc. presents 'Kill Me Loudly: A Clown Noir,' a Dirty Town production, as part of the 3rd Annual New York Clown Theatre Festival. In this dream-like murder mystery, a clown trio attempts to stage a film noir.

"Butt Kapinski is a lisping gumshoe-wannabe, a lover of Crime Novels and the poetics of humanity's shadowy underside. She dreams of being a "pwivate eye", hot on the trail of the city's most lurid murder. Jeff Seal is a slovenly, obsessive-compulsive, accident-prone sidekick. He wants to do film noir right-he's seen all the right movies-but he's too helpless and ineffectual to get things done his way. Button is a narcissistic and incompetent idiot, desperate to be the star, with no clue what film noir even means. And The Shadow...?!"

"Here is a clown show full of drug-addled bums, brain-battered boxers, high society pedophiles, and of course, the barely-clad-yet-deadly femme fatale. Here is an ever-changing cityscape of lonely office buildings, dead-end alleys, glitzy clubs, and old-timey neighborhoods. Here is a show in black and white, in light and shadows, angles and corners. It's a "Caligari"-esque, expressionistic hallucination of the 40's crime genre that defined an American archetype. Done by clowns. Here is a show in which good-natured comedy-makin' turns into vicious back-stabbing, horrible revelations and plenty of nervous breakdowns. Here is a clown noir. Very good intentions. Very bad clowns," describes press notes

The Players includes Director Eric Davis, internationally-renown Red Bastard, has been a clown with Cirque du Soleil, directs 'Bouffon Glass Menagerie' (NYIT award winner: Outstanding Production), teaches clown and bouffon, and co-directs the Brick Theater Clown Festival. Performers Butt Kapinski, Jeff Seal, Chris Manley and Chris Roberti have performed around town at theaters like the Kraine, Theatre For The New City, the UCB, the PIT, the Magnet, Galapagos, the Brick, and on the streets of New York. Costume design by Molly Austin, set design by Antonio Zito, lighting design by Brian Aldous, sound design by Jeff Cook, Assistant Directed by Jason Leinwand and Andy Dickerson of Cirque This! Set construction by Chris Roberti. Music by Mitchell Yoshida

'Kill Me Loudly: A Clown Noir' will be showing at the Brick Theater (www.bricktheater.com)Friday, September 19 at 8:30pm, Sunday September 21 at 5pm, and Friday, September 26 at 10:30pm. The Brick Theater is located on 575 Metropolitan Ave. Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211 ½ a block from the Lorimer stop of the L train. All tickets $15 and are available at the door.