This Saturday, May 4th, The Brick presents “If You’re a Man at Night…You Gotta Be a Man in the Morning” staged reading, reality TV show, and pity party all about a complicated Olympian!
In the wake of his cancelation after an unfortunate pissing-on-a-gas-station-in-Rio-and-lying-about-it debacle, a looming pandemic, a ban from swimming, and a disastrous marriage, Ryan L*chte starts to do crazy things in order to feel seen. He manifests a robot version of his wife, he fights his longtime rival Michael Ph*lps, he shows the audience snippets of his reality TV show, he begs for compliments.
But when someone is all goofy machismo and no interiority, how does he even begin to express the aching loneliness he experiences? Can we, the audience, help him? Can we, the audience, even relate to his plight? Is there a way for us to “create the ‘Lympics inside us,” as Ryan says? Gotta take a gander to the Brick Aux to find out, hunty…
Vent those feelings before Paris 2024! This show is written by Diana Lobontiu, directed by Lyam B. Gabel and features Drae Campbell, Diana Lobontiu, Utkarsh Rajawat, & Sabina Unni. What more is there to say, but grab those tickets!
Mentions: Show 7pm ET. Tickets FREE-$100 HERE. Location: Brick Aux | 628 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn NY 11211 (By the corner of Metropolitan Ave and Lorimer St/Take the L Train to Lorimer or the G Train to Metropolitan Ave-Lorimer St). Feed the algo.