The Brick Theater, Inc. And The Machine Presents THE SISTER 2/16-26

The Brick Theater, Inc. and THE MACHINE present THE SISTER February 16 -26, 2011

Some are allowed names. Some, only roles. In Colleen's family, she is The Sister. The role of The Sister is clear: Take abuse. Work the machine. And if you're really bad? You might have to
wear the dog collar.

The Sister marks the first collaboration between emerging playwright Eric John Meyer (Not Winehouse, The Bowery Poetry Club; The Truck Project's 2010 Artist in Transit) and director
Jess Chayes of The Assembly (Horse Trade Resident Theater Company 2009-2010; Clementine and the Cyber Ducks, The Ontological-Hysteric Theater). Find out more about them at their websites: www.ericjohnmeyer.com, www.jesschayes.com

Written by Eric John Meyer, Directed by Jess Chayes
Performed by Ben Beckley ("The Cocktail Party" (The Actors Company); "The Illusion", Nathaniel Kent ("The Land Whale Muders," Shelby Company), Kate Michaud ("The Great Recession" @ The Flea) and Jessica Pohly ("Father of Lies" dir by Jose Zayas @ PS122).

Designers: Sara Walsh, Derek Wright, Asa Wember, Justine Lacy
Stage Management: Marianne Broome

Press Quotes from previous productions:

Not Winehouse by Eric John Meyer at The Truck Project:
"The result is eerie, and perhaps more intimate than any physical resemblance could ever be. What the piece lacks in realism it more than makes up for in emotional oomph. The audience is quite literally too close, trapped with Winehouse (or not-Winehouse) in a way that feels simultaneously complicit and alien."
Brooklyn Based

"It's theater in a rented mover's truck. One of the plays, "Not Winehouse," is billed as a portrait of Amy Winehouse's inner monologue using things that aren't Winehouse."
The New York Times

Three Sisters directed by Jess Chayes at The Cherry Pit:
"The Assembly Theater Project is staging an inventive, lively, passionate Sisters... Seated literally in the midst of the action, we feel, at times, like guests at a really good party....the stage, and the production itself, are redefined to include us and the entire theater, and it is magical. We are transformed."
Show Business Weekly

All tickets: $18

Performances February 16, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25 and 26 at 8:30pm

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

The Machine was founded to facilitate the collaboration of playwright Eric John Meyer, director Jess Chayes and their cohorts.

Eric John Meyer was born and raised in suburban North Jersey. His work has been performed at The Bowery Poetry Club, The Electric Factory, and Sarah Lawrence College; with The Nabokov Theatre Company in the UK, and as part of the New York and New Orleans Fringe Festivals. His plays have received development at The Public Theater, The Flea, and New Dramatists. He was the 2010 Artist in Transit for The Truck Project, which he established with Jean Ann Douglass. He lives in New York and holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College.

Jess Chayes is a co-founder and resident director of The Assembly Theater Project and a freelance director. With The Assembly, she has directed We Can't Reach You, Hartford (Edinburgh Fringe First Nominee, The Scotsman), Daguerreotype (The Abingdon Theater), What I Took in My Hand (The Ontological Theater, the Brick Theater), Clementine and the Cyber Ducks (The Ontological Theater), The Dark Heart of Meteorology (UNDER St. Marks), The Three Sisters (The Red Room, The Cherry Pit), and the upcoming Weather Underground Project. She has developed new work with The Shelby Company, P73, The Public Theater, New Georges, The Working Theater, Old Vic/New Voices and Woodshed Collective. Jess is a New Georges affiliated artist and founding member of The Jam.

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 is Williamsburg, Brooklyn's destination for cutting-edge theatrical experience. Home to the critically acclaimed premieres of Bouffon Glass Menajoree (NY IT Award Winner-Outstanding Play), Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War (NY IT Award Winner-Outstanding Play), Craven Monkey and the Mountain of Fury (NY IT Award Nominee-Outstanding Performance Art Production), Greed: A Musical Love $tory (NY IT Award Nominee-Outstanding Musical), Suspicious Package (NY IT Award Nominee-Outstanding Play), The Brick has hosted some of downtown theater's most innovative artists, including Annie Baker, Young Jean Lee, The Debate Society, Banana Bag & Bodice, Thomas Bradshaw, and Jollyship the Whiz-Bang's Nick Jones. The Brick has also hosted Fight Fest, Game Play: A Celebration of Video Game Theater, three years of the international NY Clown Theatre Festival, Gemini CollisionWorks' August repertory festival (The Collisionworks), The Too Soon Festival, The Antidepressant Festival, You're Welcome, Adventure Quest, The Nosemaker's Apprentice, The Protestants, The Granduncle Quadrilogy, Lord Oxford Presents 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, A Thought about Raya, Secrets History Remembers, The Pretentious Festival (including Every Play Ever Written and Macbeth without Words), Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist/Cleansed, The Death of Griffin Hunter, Untitled Theater Co. #61's Havel Festival, Sexadelic Cemetery, The Kung Fu Importance of Being Earnest, The $ellout Festival, Adventures of Caveman Robot, The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, The Moral Values Festival (featuring Dear Dubya and World Gone Wrong), 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), Assurbanipal Babilla's Assyrian Monkey Fantasy and the Brooklyn premiere of legendary Polish playwright Stanislaw Witkiewicz's The Pragmatists.

 

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