The Weasel Festival

BAM hosts the 16th annual Bring a Weasel and a Pint of Your Own Blood Festival, showcasing new plays written and presented by 2024 graduates of the Brooklyn College MFA Playwriting program:

Tracy Carns
Nurit Chinn
Lori Felipe-Barkin
Leslie Gauthier
Utkarsh Rajawat
Madison Wetzell

This year’s plays are all inspired by The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by the 18th century poet, artist, and iconoclastic visionary William Blake, common source material suggested by program directors Sibyl Kempson and Dennis A. Allen II. Playwrights, directors, designers, and actors from Brooklyn College and the wider NYC theater community collaborate on these explosive, form-bending new works, presented in two programs featuring three plays apiece.

Program Heaven

Sep 13 at 7:30pm, Sep 14 at 2:30pm
The Peepholeman
by Lori Felipe-Barkin
Directed by Benjamin Viertel

SLIMRZ
by Utkarsh Rajawat
Directed by Kedian Keohan

Corrosives Are the Cure for Her Crushing Nostalgia
by Tracy Carns
Directed by Benjamin Viertel

Program Hell

Sep 14 at 7:30pm, Sep 15 at 3pm
Choreomania
by Madison Wetzell
Directed by Marissa Joyce Stamps

Proverbs of the Mojave
by Leslie Gauthier
Directed by Marissa Joyce Stamps

Godbird
by Nurit Chinn
Directed by Kedian Keohan

Content Warning: discussion of pornography (Godbird), pantomimed sexual acts (SLIMRZ, Corrosives), audience interview (SLIMRZ), graphic descriptions of torture and genocide (SLIMRZ).