Brave New World Repertory Theatre
NEW WORKS hosted by Brave New World Rep is a reading series of plays by Brooklyn-based playwrights. Each play is presented in an environmentally-specific location in Brooklyn. Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lindsay-Abaire serves as advisor to the playwrights involved in the program.
Captain Mike
By Gary Winter
Directed by Kristan Seemel
October 13, 2013 4:30p.m.
Captain Mike is a comedy about the fine art of irresponsibility, as well as unintended consequences. Mike is owner/captain of a small charter boat on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Growing up is not part of the plan for Mike: his best friend Dr. Lenny is a street musician on the docks, and he and his ex-wife Eve are happily co-dependent and oblivious to the increasing danger signs of their daughter’s erratic behavior. A seemingly minor incident at the docks triggers a series of events that tests the integrity of these relationships, and Mike’s commitment to willful ignorance.
The Waterfront Museum
290 Conover Street, at Pier 44
Brooklyn, NY
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Tipoldemoder
By Mark Sitko
Directed by Shannon Sindelar
Location and date TBA
Tipoldemoder explores man’s assumed authority over the animal kingdom by following four generations of a matriarchal family in Northern California. Elephants are hit by trains and butchered for their meat. Claws are removed from crawdads so that they can be used as bait. Turtles are fed vegetable slices and guinea pigs have seizures on their way to the vet. Elementary school sweethearts collect lady bugs on their bodies as a great grandmother attacks her own reflection in the mirror. The delusion that man controls all forms of life on this planet is shattered as the family loses one of their own.
Honey Drop
By Erin Courtney
Location and date TBA
Honey Drop follows a manic poet as she travels cross-country in a rented RV with a young man in search of her long lost son. From back yards, to trampolines, to pet cemeteries, the poet tries to outrun her own demons but finds they travel right alongside her.
#therevolution
By Kristoffer Diaz
Location and date TBA
Sometimes life is too much to take. Sometimes it makes you do dumb things. Sometimes that dumb thing is killing someone. Sometimes when you kill someone, an army rises up in your name. Then you’ve got to deal with that. #therevolution is an extra dark comedy about two young women who accidentally take over the world and devote themselves to fixing it. Or just enjoying the fame. Either of those.