The Brick Theater & The Mad Ones Present SAMUEL AND ALASDAIR, 4/1-4/17

"Broadcasting live from the Victory Theater in downtown Irkutsk, it's The at Home Field Guide, brought to you by Soviet Free Radio Order. Today your hosts buck the chaos and mounting panic to bring you an American story of first love and first heartbreak, along with the musical stylings of Alexei ‘Tumbleweed' Petrovya. Tune in, take heart--and be careful out there, friends."

In an alternate global history, the cold war is decided not by détente, not by nuclear holocaust, but by massive robot invasion. Among the survivors, a team of Russian radio hosts, warmed to a lost culture of 1950s Americana, broadcast a story of brothers' love drawn straight from the American heartland. Samuel and Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War combines 1950s radio drama, vintage country music, and Soviet science for a look back in time and forward to what's next.

Featuring Marc Bovino*, Joe Curnutte*, Michael Dalto and Stephanie Wright Thompson*

Written by Marc Bovino* and Joe Curnutte*

Directed and co-conceived by Lila Neugebauer

Co-created by the ensemble

Costume Design - Evan Prizant, Sound Design - Stowe Nelson, Dramaturgy - Sarah Lunnie

All tickets: $18

April 1 - April 17, 2010

Thu - Sat @ 8pm

Only at The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

All tickets available at www.bricktheater.com or by calling 212-352-3101

Samuel and Alasdair: A Personal history of the Robot War was developed with the support of The Brick's Antidepressant Festival and Ars Nova's 2009 ANT FEST.
The Mad Ones is a human collaboration project comprising Marc Bovino, Joe Curnutte, and Lila Neugebauer. Up with robots. Down with people.

Marc Bovino* (Performer/co-writer) As playwright: Ready Set Go (Actors Theatre of Louisville). Recent Acting Credits: Dracula (Actors Theatre of Louisville), (Rus)h and Lush Valley (HERE Arts Centers), Camino Real (Columbia Stages, dir. Tony Speciale), A Christmas Carol (Hartford Stage). Marc was a member of the 2004-2005 Acting Apprentice Company at Actors Theatre of Louisville and holds a BA in Art History and Spanish from the University of Connecticut.

Joe Curnutte* (Performer/co-writer) New York: Duchess in the Dark (artparty theatre), Camino Real (Columbia Stages), La Femme Est Morte (PS 122, 59E59: Stage Award Winner: Best Ensemble, Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Thinking Makes It So (IT Award Nominee: Outstanding Solo Performance), Millicent Scowlworthy (13P). Regional: Two Men of Florence (Huntington Theater), Uncle Sam's Satiric Spectacular and A Christmas Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville). TV: As the World Turns, All My Children. Other interesting things: Graduate of Cornell College with degrees in Education, English, and Theatre; current co-writer and actor for the upcoming project Fair Harvard; creator of the comic strip DROOGS - coming soon

Michael Dalto (Performer/co-creator) Regional: Ted Lorusso's First Day (Kitchen Theater), Pride and Prejudice (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Brink! (Humana Festival 2009), and various credits at Virginia Stage Co. and Georgia Shakespeare Festival. Michael was a member of the 2008-2009 Acting Apprentice Company at Actors Theatre of Louisville and is from Birmingham, AL.

Stephanie Wright Thompson* (Performer/co-creator) New York: Have You Seen Steve Steven? (13P), Girl's Room (Queens Theatre in the Park), The Children (NYMF), Neon Mirage (NY Fringe), Camino Real and Ivanov (Columbia Stages), various workshops/readings affiliated with Classic Stage Company, New Dramatists, and Ensemble Studio Theatre. Regional Theatre: Six Years and Neon Mirage (30th Humana Festival), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Christmas Carol, and Dracula (Actors Theatre of Louisville), tempOdyssey (New Jersey Rep.), Wallflower (Stages Rep.). She holds a BFA in Acting from Wright State University.

Lila Neugebauer (Director/co-conceiver)'s recent directing work has been seen at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Ars Nova's ANT FEST, The Brick Theater, Cherry Lane Studio, Ensemble Studio Theater, and NYU Tisch/Atlantic Acting School. She has developed new plays through the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, The Dramatists Guild, EST/Youngblood, and the Yale Playwrights Festival. She has assisted for Jo Bonney, Leigh Silverman, and Chay Yew, among others. Lila is a previous resident directing assistant at Actors Theatre of Louisville, is a New Georges Affiliated Artist and Resident Director at Ensemble Studio Theatre.

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 has been home to numerous critically acclaimed original productions, monthly series and theater festivals, including

Fight Fest, Amuse Bouche, Game Play: A Celebration of Video Game Theater, The Antidepressant Festival, three years of the international NY Clown Theatre Festival, Gemini CollisionWorks' August repertory festival (The Collisionworks), Suspicious Package, You're Welcome, Adventure Quest, The Nosemaker's Apprentice, The Protestants, The Granduncle Quadrilogy, Lord Oxford Brings You 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, The Debate Society's A Thought About Raya, Secrets History Remembers, The Pretentious Festival (including Every Play Ever Written and Macbeth Without Words), Bouffon Glass Menajoree, Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist/Cleansed, The Death of Griffin Hunter, Untitled Theater Co. #61's Havel Festival, Sexadelic Cemetery, Greed: A Musical Love $tory, The Kung Fu Importance of Being Earnest, The $ellout Festival, Adventures of Caveman Robot, Total Faith in Cosmic Love, The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, The Moral Values Festival (featuring Dear Dubya, World Gone Wrong, My Year of Porn), 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), Fallout Follies, Assurbanipal Babilla's Assyrian Monkey Fantasy and the Brooklyn premiere of legendary Polish playwright Stanislaw Witkiewicz's The Pragmatists.