Rand vs Jesus!
Plato…
…vs Math Hippies!
Bodhidharma: Master of Kung Fu!
How can you NOT see this show?!
Impetuous Theater Group & The Brick Theater, Inc.
present
ACTION PHILOSOPHERS!
ACTION PHILOSOPHERS!
Comic Book by Fred Van Lente & Ryan Dunlavey
Adapted by Crystal Skillman
Directed by John Hurley
As part of the Comic Book Theater Festival @ The Brick
Thu 6/23 7 PM
Tue 6/28 7 PM
Wed 6/29 7 PM
Fri 7/1 7 PM
The award-winning, best-selling comic book series Action Philosophers is adapted for the stage by award-winning playwright Crystal Skillman and directed by John Hurley as the lives and thoughts of history's A-list brain trust leap to the stage in manic, hilarious fashion. Come meet PLATO — Wrestling Superstar of Ancient Greece! NIETZSCHE — The Original Übermensch! The torrid love affairs of AYN RAND! And more! From Impetuous Theater Group who brought you Hack! an I.T. Spaghetti Western (a hit at both last year's Too Soon Festival and the Vampire Cowboys Saloon Series) Action Philosophers! is a must see, not to mention cheaper than a liberal arts degree — and a whole lot more fun, too!
Featuring Ryan Andes, Neimah Djourabchi, Benjamin Ellis Fine, Joseph Mathers, Kelley Rae O’Donnell and C.L. Weatherstone.
With lights by Olivia Harris; Costumes by Meryl Pressman & Holly Rihn; Props by Gretchen Van Lente; Set Created by Ben Kato; Stage Manager: Veronica Graveline
"Indie Theatre needs more trail blazers like Skillman and Hurley they are certainly ones to watch as they ride off into the sunset." Michael Roderick, Broadway World (Hack!)
"The achievement of the writer Fred Van Lente and the artist Ryan Dunlavey [in Action Philosophers] is visualizing [great philosophers] in intensely goofy but intellectually rigorous ways."
The New York Times
"[Action Philosophers] is totally irreverent and manically inventive" Publishers Weekly
All performances will be at The Brick (575 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn) as part of The Comic Book Theater Festival. Tickets ($15) are available online at www.bricktheater.com or by calling 212-352-3101.
Buy tix here! https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/828645
More about the CB Fest at Brick site: http://www.bricktheater.com/
What's the Comic Book Fest? Brooklyn Rail article here: http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/06/theater/crystal-skillman-on-the-comic-book-theater-festival
PS - while you're at the fest don't forget to take 10 minutes to check out Mrs. Perfect! written by Crystal, directed by James David Jackson, for Theater in a Van! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118777181538112
