Gemini CollisionWorks and The Brick Theater, Inc.

present

THE COLLISIONWORKS

An Annual Presentation of Theatre from Gemini CollisionWorks

4 Shows designed and directed by Ian W. Hill
assisted by Berit Johnson

August 7 to 30, 2009

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2009 Repertory:

A LITTLE PIECE OF THE SUN
by Daniel McKleinfeld

A documentary for the stage, examining the stories of serial killer Andrei Chikatilo and the 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor through a collage of found texts that reveal these two stories of mass death to be one story of institutional corruption in a theatrical autopsy where Art is the only scalpel sharp enough to cut through the mangled flesh of the lies to reveal the glowing fragment of truth underneath it all.

performed by David Arthur Bachrach*, Fred Backus, Aaron Baker, Olivia Baseman*, Adam Belvo, Eric Feldman, Ian W. Hill, Colleen Jasinski, Gavin Starr Kendall, Roger Nasser, Tom Reid, Melissa Roth, Patrick Shearer, Alyssa Simon*

August 7, 12, 15, 21, 23 and 27 at 8.00 pm; August 9, 16, and 30 at 3.00 pm
approximately 2 hours and 10 minutes long (including one intermission)

GEORGE BATAILLE'S BATHROBE
by Richard Foreman

An abstract play by that receives its first fully-staged English-Language production, interpreted here as the story of an elderly, controversial writer in a prison (perhaps real, perhaps metaphoric) on his dying day, as he is confronted with his memories and regrets made flesh, both tormenting him and attempting to help him pass out of this life with peace and acceptance.

performed by Sarah Malinda Engelke*, Liza Wade Green, Justin R.G. Holcomb*, Bob Laine, Kathryn Lawson, Patrice Miller, Timothy McCown Reynolds*, Bill Weeden*

August 8, 11, 13, 18, 20, 28 and 29 at 8.00 pm; August 22 and 23 at 4.00 pm
approximately 75 minutes long

BLOOD ON THE CAT'S NECK
by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(sometimes subtitled "Marilyn Monroe vs. The Vampires")
A 1971 play by the iconoclastic playwright/filmmaker in which a beautiful, blonde, vampiric Amazon of a space alien is dropped into a bourgeois cocktail party of an unlikely group of guests to attempt to learn about human beings, without much success, until her plundering of the guests’ minds becomes a more direct and physical acquisition of their life essences.

performed by Gyda Arber, Eric C. Bailey*, Danny Bowes, V. Orion Delwaterman, Rasheed Hinds, Toya Lillard, Samantha Mason, Amy Overman, Roger Nasser, Shelley Ray*

August 9, 14, 19, 22, 25 and 26 at 8.00 pm; August 8, 15, and 29 at 4.00 pm
approximately 80 minutes long

SACRIFICIAL OFFERINGS
by David Finkelstein & Ian W. Hill

Sacrificial Offerings began as an improvisational performance duet created by the two authors as the basis for a multilayered video artwork by Mr. Finkelstein for his Lake Ivan Performance Group. Mr. Hill has taken the improvised text and transformed it into the story of a drawing room séance among the upper class of many decades past, with a version of Mr. Finkelstein’s video presented mid-performance as the appearance of the “spirits” into the room.

performed by Eric C. Bailey*, Larry Gutman, Stephen Heskett, Justin R.G. Holcomb*, Kirill Khvenkin, Victoria Miller, Ben Robertson and Eve Udesky*

August 8, 14, 22, and 28 at 10.30 pm; August 16 and 30 at 8.00 pm; August 15, 23, and 29 at 2.00 pm
approximately 45 minutes long

*appears courtesy Actors' Equity Association

Only at The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
one block from the Lorimer stop of the L train / Metropolitan stop of the G train

All tickets: $15 (except SACRIFICIAL OFFERINGS: $10)

Or 2 shows for $25, 3 for $35, or all four for $40!

All tickets available at Theatermania (212-352-3101)

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