The Story Continues With 'PENNY DREADFUL EPISODE 9'

The Brick Theater and Third Lows Productions continue Season Two of their innovative theater series Penny Dreadful on Saturday, December 13 at 11:00 PM and Sunday, December 14 at 2:00 PM with the premiere of Penny Dreadful Episode 9: The Terrible Tale of the Black Dragon.  Audiences can still join in on the story by either reading the detailed plot summaries or downloading videos of all the past episodes, available on the Third Lows Productions official website www.thirdlows.com/pennydreadful.

Penny Dreadful Episode 9: The Terrible Tale of the Black Dragon chronicles the time-traveling story of Hin Tsu, a twenty-first century Chinese physicist who became the dark and mysterious figure known as the Black Dragon.  In his journey through countless alternate dimensions, Hin Tsu encounters such historical figures as Albert Einstein, Aleister Crowley and William Jennings Bryan in his quest to prevent the end of the world.

Penny Dreadful co-creator Matt Gray directs a cast of some of the finest performers in New York's indie theatre scene, including Viet Vo, Samantha Mason, Merlyn Wolf Berg, Audrey Crabtree, Patrick Shearer, Emily C. Skware, Daniel McKleinfeld, Tory Dube, Trav S.D. and Bob Brader.

Inspired by the adventure-filled dime novels of the 19th and early 20th century, Penny Dreadful is an innovative epic for the stage co-created for Williamsburg's Brick Theater by writers/directors/performers Matt Gray and Bryan Enk. Penny Dreadful has been serialized into monthly installments that began in November 2007 with Season One. Audiences can follow the labyrinthine plot twists and re-experience the cliffhanger endings through detailed summaries and video downloads of each episode following their live performance, available on the Third Lows Productions official website www.thirdlows.com/pennydreadful.

Our story begins in 1909 with the discovery of a bloodless body that has San Francisco abuzz. It will be up to a second-rate showman and an oddball detective of the supernatural to put together the clues - a mysterious hearing aid, a missing creature from the darkest corner of the earth, a secret society bent on world domination, a man who can control earthquakes, and the greatest magic trick ever performed. Penny Dreadful is a twelve-part tale of mystery and horror that takes place in the first decade of the twentieth century and guest stars a parade of notable historical figures such as Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Edison as they weave in and out of the suspenseful tale.

Penny Dreadful will continue in January 2009 with Penny Dreadful Episode 10: The Science and the Séance - Two Tales of Love and Horror.

The Brick and its company, The Brick Theater, Inc., were founded in 2002 by Robert Honeywell and Michael Gardner. Formerly an auto-body shop, a yoga center, and various storage spaces, this brick-walled garage in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was completely refurbished as a state-of-the-art performance space. The Brick has been home to many critically acclaimed premieres, including Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Bizarre Science Fantasy, Tupperware Orgy, In a Strange Room (based on Faulkner's As I Lay Dying), Dear Dubya, Fallout Follies, World Gone Wrong, My Year of Porn, Who Is Wilford Brimley?, Jenna Is Nuts, Habitat, Absence of Magic, Assyrian Monkey Fantasy (in two movements), and The Pragmatists.

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