BRICK Down Under

Cheers to DRAMAC!

BRICK The Play as presented by Macquarie University’s student-run theatre guild, was a rousing success.

Working from a more streamlined script, the story’s high action content was emphasized...and with it, an absolutely fearless journey into Brendan’s (played with grave conviction by Andrew Jackson) desperate quest for the truth.

Laura, deftly played by Steph Merriman, was precisely the femme fatale we were hoping for. As her role in the cover-up is revealed, we gasp. It’s not how we expected things to go. Ah, noir!

Isabella Woolley as Brain was compelling in her thinking-gal’s devotion to the good fight. Matt Dennis’ Dode was spot-on. And Nib Brattoni’s Pin was the show-stopping highlight it is meant to be (with the Aussie accent...shades of Alan Rickman, perhaps?).

Excellent performances ran deep into the cast list. No doubt, DRAMAC’s BRICK The Play will be hard to out-do.

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What's next for BRICK The Play?

The DRAMAC gang is going all out to completely sell out every performance of BRICK The Play at Macquarie University. Make your reservations by e-mailing the box office directly: brick@dramac.org.

DRAMAC's presentation of BRICK The Play in Sydney will be the second full production of the play this year. We're looking for two more opportunities to add to our production history in early 2010, and a late summer/fall production in New York City.

Contact Chris White if you'd like to be production version 3.0 or 4.0!

There Will Be Blood

BRICK The Play is unusually violent for a stageplay (well, not counting Shakespeare's tragedies).

There was a performance in the SC/USA production when an apparently mentally ill audience member slipped into retching convulsions each time a stage punch landed. And despite our stage managers' most humane efforts to relocate this woman to the lobby, she and her family felt it best to endure.

Thanks alot, Rian. Nice story.

Be fair-warned future audience members, NSW/AUS fight choreographer ("Boots") is readying a rip-roarin' smack-down for all y'all. No word yet on the use of stage blood (there was quite a bit of the old red stuff in the SC/USA version).

Weak-kneed audience members should stay away at all costs.