The Brick Theater, Inc. presents a Gemini CollisionWorks production of
NECROPOLIS #0&3:
Kiss Me, Succubus &
At the Mountains of Slumberland
written, designed and directed by Ian W. Hill
Wednesday, August 8, 15, and 22
Thursday, August 23
Saturday, August 18
and Sunday, August 26 at 8.00 pm
matinees: Saturday, August 11 and Sunday, August 12 at 4.00 pm
Two dreams – a nightmare and a fantasy. But which is which? An adult’s dream of sex, violence and cinema. A child’s dream of other, wondrous worlds, monsters, fantastic machines, and heroes. How do these dreams connect? How do our childhood fantasies form our adult personalities?
Here, two early one-acts in The NECROPOLIS SERIES (a collection of what creator Ian W. Hill calls “dubbed, theatrical dream-elegies for dead or dying art forms of the 20th Century”) are being brought back and performed in repertory with the acclaimed two-part film noir pastiche NECROPOLIS #1&2: World Gone Wrong/Worth Gun Willed.
In Kiss Me, Succubus, a group of indolent, rich, decadent (yet bored) 1960s jet-setters encounter a group of what they believe to be porn movie actors at a party and invite them home, thinking they will provide at least an evening’s amusement. Instead, their guests prove to have a far more horrible, supernatural intent in mind, and the hosts are soon trapped and fighting for their lives in a strange, hallucinatory world of sex, violence, sexual violence, and word games. Based on the arty 1960s sex-and-horror exploitation films of Jesus Franco, Radley Metzger, Jean Rollin and many others, Kiss Me, Succubus is a tribute to both the over-the-top melodrama and unintentional comedy of those movies, while also attempting to capture the strangeness, visual beauty, and ultimately moving qualities the best of them possess.
At the Mountains of Slumberland features the classic Winsor McCay comic strip character, Little Nemo, who here falls asleep (as usual in the comics) but here finds himself stuck in the universe of H.P. Lovecraft’s horror stories rather than in his usual charming Slumberland. Nemo must make his way through a more nightmarish landscape than usual, with the help of his guide, Randolph Carter, fighting Lovecraft’s dark, squamous gods, The Old Ones, and, ultimately, a surprising human enemy. Performed as a series of comic strip panels, At the Mountains of Slumberland is a study in how dreams affect art, and how art affects dreams.
As with all productions in the NECROPOLIS series, these two shows are primarily made up of collaged text from the original source materials and are performed “dubbed,” with all dialogue, sound effects, and music prerecorded and played behind the actors, who enact it as a complex, choreographed movement piece.
The company of NECROPOLIS #0&3 includes Gyda Arber, Peter Bean, Linda Blackstock, Jody Christopherson, Bryan Enk, Stacia French, Ian W. Hill, Amy Liszka, Robert Pinnock, Jessica Savage, Alyssa Simon, Douglas Scott Sorenson, Sammy Tunis, and Art Wallace. NECROPOLIS #0&3 is an Equity-Approved Showcase.
100 minutes – one intermission
NECROPOLIS #0&3:
Kiss Me, Succubus &
At the Mountains of Slumberland
written, designed and directed by Ian W. Hill
Wednesday, August 8, 15, and 22
Thursday, August 23
Saturday, August 18
and Sunday, August 26 at 8.00 pm
matinees: Saturday, August 11 and Sunday, August 12 at 4.00 pm
Two dreams – a nightmare and a fantasy. But which is which? An adult’s dream of sex, violence and cinema. A child’s dream of other, wondrous worlds, monsters, fantastic machines, and heroes. How do these dreams connect? How do our childhood fantasies form our adult personalities?
Here, two early one-acts in The NECROPOLIS SERIES (a collection of what creator Ian W. Hill calls “dubbed, theatrical dream-elegies for dead or dying art forms of the 20th Century”) are being brought back and performed in repertory with the acclaimed two-part film noir pastiche NECROPOLIS #1&2: World Gone Wrong/Worth Gun Willed.
In Kiss Me, Succubus, a group of indolent, rich, decadent (yet bored) 1960s jet-setters encounter a group of what they believe to be porn movie actors at a party and invite them home, thinking they will provide at least an evening’s amusement. Instead, their guests prove to have a far more horrible, supernatural intent in mind, and the hosts are soon trapped and fighting for their lives in a strange, hallucinatory world of sex, violence, sexual violence, and word games. Based on the arty 1960s sex-and-horror exploitation films of Jesus Franco, Radley Metzger, Jean Rollin and many others, Kiss Me, Succubus is a tribute to both the over-the-top melodrama and unintentional comedy of those movies, while also attempting to capture the strangeness, visual beauty, and ultimately moving qualities the best of them possess.
At the Mountains of Slumberland features the classic Winsor McCay comic strip character, Little Nemo, who here falls asleep (as usual in the comics) but here finds himself stuck in the universe of H.P. Lovecraft’s horror stories rather than in his usual charming Slumberland. Nemo must make his way through a more nightmarish landscape than usual, with the help of his guide, Randolph Carter, fighting Lovecraft’s dark, squamous gods, The Old Ones, and, ultimately, a surprising human enemy. Performed as a series of comic strip panels, At the Mountains of Slumberland is a study in how dreams affect art, and how art affects dreams.
As with all productions in the NECROPOLIS series, these two shows are primarily made up of collaged text from the original source materials and are performed “dubbed,” with all dialogue, sound effects, and music prerecorded and played behind the actors, who enact it as a complex, choreographed movement piece.
The company of NECROPOLIS #0&3 includes Gyda Arber, Peter Bean, Linda Blackstock, Jody Christopherson, Bryan Enk, Stacia French, Ian W. Hill, Amy Liszka, Robert Pinnock, Jessica Savage, Alyssa Simon, Douglas Scott Sorenson, Sammy Tunis, and Art Wallace. NECROPOLIS #0&3 is an Equity-Approved Showcase.
100 minutes – one intermission