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Bring a Weasel and a Pint of Your Own Blood
Influential theater festival begins its fifth installment
Playwrights looming, as they are wont to do (Photo: East 13th Street Theater)
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Earlier today, we featured monkeys. Now, we’re talking about an equally awesome (and very misunderstood) animal: the weasel.
Today is the beginning of the fifth annual Bring a Weasel and a Pint of Your Own Blood Festival at the East 13th Street Theater. Written and produced by four playwright from Mac Wellman’s Brooklyn College MFA program—Corina Copp, Benjamin Gassman, Kobun Kaluza and Amber Reed—the festival is quickly becoming a platform for experimental and irreverent new works.
Three original plays and a short film will be shown each night, with each riffing of the stories of The Apocrypha:
Waltz: an adaptation of The Story of Susanna, Bel and the Dragon, and The Song of Three Children
By Corina Copp; Directed by Meghan Finn
A woman is falsely accused, so an angel stands ready to cut judges in two: so goes divine justice.
Purimacolo: an adaptation of The Story of Esther.
By Benjamin Gassman; Directed by Julia Jarcho
Mussolini’s mistress is crashing the Purim play.
Red Ass: The College Years, Sophomore Year: an adaptation of The Second Book of Esdrus.
By Kobun Kaluza; Directed by Judith Smith
On a sandy cove in the Pacific Northwest, Red Ass the turtle seeks prophetic wisdom and sophomore advice from his fellow animals.
A stop animation film adaptation of The Book of Tobit, by Amber Reed
All the weasel and blood bringing will happen at the East 13th Street Theater from July 28-July 230 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $18/$15 students and can be reserved by e-mailing bringaweasel@gmail.com.