The Brick Theater is pleased to announce the seventh annual Game Play Festival, taking place during July 2015 in Brooklyn, New York.
This year’s festival features cutting-edge works that lie at the intersection of gaming and performance.
Cosplay
July 11 – 25, 2015
by Blair Ingenthron, directed by Daniel Roberts
Leslie meets Michael in Zombie Apocalypse, an online role-playing game where anyone can be anyone with a single click. Their bond over a mutual enemy turns into a gaming partnership, but when a game convention brings them together in real life, fighting zombies becomes far less complicated than human connection.
DON’T Save The Princesses!
Tut’Zanni Theatre Company
July 14 – 24, 2015
Cara is stuck in the drudgery of life being a video game princess. Every day she is captured, put away in a cage, and must wait around for a man to come and save her. But what happens the day she decides to save herself?
The Institute
July 10 – 25, 2015
Created by:
Clio Davis, Sharang Biswas, Kyle Greenberg, Erin Finnegan, Michelle Chandra and Yu Ji
Forget phone-taps and email hacks, what if someone could invade your very mind?
In The Institute, participants must work together to free the mind of a brainwashed special agent, while a shadowy intelligence agency and a secretive research institute both vie for the knowledge trapped within it.
Outsourced
The One Trick Circus
July 11 – 23, 2015
written and directed by Aisha Josiah
Annie, an outsourced HR rep arrives at a company to fire a man she's never met. Suddenly, the office is taken hostage. In this interactive play, you guide Annie through mounting obstacles, communicating via headset. Can you get her out of there alive, save the others and catch the villain?
The Prison
July 19 – 25, 2015
A live freeform game focusing on class and identity in a not-so-distant dystopian future. The new social order has branded you a criminal, convicted of capital transgressions. In this processing centre, you and your fellow detainees decide who will be executed.
How much is your life worth fighting for? ***** 4 hours, incl. workshops
