Brick Theater’s Film Festival: A Theater Festival

OEDIPUS REX: THE MOVIE
“Scholars would have you believe that theater predates film by thousands of years. The Brick, however, believes otherwise. As evidenced by this recently unearthed storyboard from 429 B.C., Oedipus Rex was originally intended to be experienced as a movie.”
—The Brick Theater

Art by Jeff Lewonczyk, co–associate director

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The Brick’s fest celebrates—and parodies—the relationship between theater and film. “The idea is to look at the way they overlap, where they cross-polinate and what they say about each other,” says Michael Gardner, co–artistic director and cofounder of the company. Each of the 18 plays in the series has a movie trailer, screened before the performance. The Brick also commissioned six film shorts, in which directors had 72 hours to make movies with a Greek-tragedy theme. “The festival is kind of a time capsule of where we are in the theater and film landscapes,” says Gardner. “Am I mixing my metaphors?” Metaphors? Maybe. Media? Certainly.

—Kate Lowenstein