Lone
Brick Theatre Company Tackles Artistic Armageddon in Every Day, APOCALYPSE!
Returning to the FringeArts Festival for the third
year running, Widener University’s Lone Brick Theatre Company presents Every
Day, APOCALYPSE!, a new comedy written by company director, R.A. Reutter.
The show premiers in the Festival on Friday, September 22 at 8:00pm with an
additional performance on Saturday, September 23 at 8:00pm. Performances will
be held at The Collective in Port Richmond.
Meet the members of the floundering Angry Goose
Theatre Company whose rehearsal is interrupted when Jesus stops by. Perturbed
by their lukewarm reception, the irate son of God condemns the members of the company
to experience a new apocalyptic scenario every day, for eternity. Can the
members of the company learn enough about themselves, each other, and
Armageddon to save the world, not to mention the world’s worst production of Hamlet.
A comic fusion of performance traditions, Every
Day, APOCALYPSE! incorporates elements of dance, circus arts, and puppetry
to question the role of art in the apocalyptic landscape. Positing the end of
the world in its many incarnations as metaphor for the ever mounting challenges
to artistic expression in the twenty first century, the show explores the
impulse to create and where the responsibility of the artist lies.
A departure from the immersive nature of Lone
Brick’s previous, darker Fringe entry, Dissever My Soul (2015), Every
Day, APOCALYPSE! maintains the generative process that is vital to the
company’s work. Though penned by Reutter, the show is a collaboration in which
the actors participate in evolving the script through a series of summer
workshops designed around movement, improvisation, and character study.
Every Day, APOCALYPSE! stars
Widener University undergraduate students Nathan Mirando, Rebecca Gomezrueda,
Alexander Ross, Brookelynne Mahon, Jimmy Coia, Taylor Blum, McKailey Gordon,
Brynne Maddrey, Robert Termini, and Jared Zimmerman; graduate students, Carolyn
Lodge and Luis Aguilar; and alumna, Cosette Termini.
LISTING INFORMATION:
What: Every Day, APOCALYPSE!
When: Friday, September 22 & Saturday, September
23 at 8:00pm
Where: The Collective 3245
Amber St Philadelphia, PA 19134
Tickets: $15 General Admission; $10 Student,
purchase through the FringeArts Box Office
A limited number of half-price tickets will be
available through Funsavers beginning September 14.