The Brick Theater
575 Metropolitan Ave
718.907.6189
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- When
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Apr 1, 2010 – Apr 17, 2010
Thursdays–Saturdays (8pm)
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- Price
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$18
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“Experimental theater collective the Mad Ones concoct an engrossing alternative universe with Samuel and Alasdair: A Personal History of The Robot War. Set in small-town Russia, we spend an afternoon in the recording studio with The At Home Field Guide, a radio show dedicated to 1950s Americana. With a penchant for kitsch and melodrama, The At Home Field Guide tells the story — in installments, with music and advertisements in between — of two brothers in love with one girl. Of course, there are parallels to the real lives of the radio hosts: it's suspenseful and impeccably performed, proving that the Mad Ones are not so crazy after all.”
Alyssa Alpine, Flavorpill
The Brick Theater says:
In an alternate global history, the cold war was decided not by détente, not by nuclear holocaust, but by massive robot invasion. Among the survivors, a team of Russian radio hosts, warmed to a lost culture of 1950s Americana, broadcast a story of brothers’ love drawn straight from the American heartland. Samuel and Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War combines 1950s radio drama, vintage country music, and Soviet science for a look back in time and forward to what's next.
