Stephen Aubrey

Lauch Party for my new book, Suspicious Zoology

stephen — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:15:17 +0000

After a year of work and hair-pulling (largely thanks to my incompetence with InDesign), I’m happy to announce that Suspicious Zoology, The Hollow Earth Society’s highly suspect follow-up to last year’s deeply spurious Suspicious Anatomy, is finally being released next Friday, October 7th.

Some reasons why you should attend:
1. There will be wine.
2. I will be reading from parts of the book alongside Sebastian “Bass” Knobloch, host of EnviroChan’s hit show Whoooa there, don’t pick ‘er up by that, she looks—OH, YEAH—RADICAL ANIMALS!!
3. There will be bad Australian accents (see above.)
4. There is talk of puppets
5. Ethan Gould’s original art from the book will be on display.
6. There will be wine.
7. Not only will you get to be one of the first to get your hand on Suspicious Zoology (for a mere $8) but we’ll also have copies of Suspicious Anatomy available if you’re horrifically behind the times.

Here are the details:

Friday, October 7, 8:00 PM
Observatory
543 Union Street (enter via Nevins)
Brooklyn, New York

“The Adjustment” Review

stephen — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:22:34 +0000

I have a new review up at Electric Literature’s The Outlet. This time, it’s Scott Phillip’s The Adjustment.

You can read my review here.

At long last, I have won the man’s heart

stephen — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:06:05 +0000

Almost 4 years ago to the day, I got the first review of the first show I ever did in NYC. The play was Daguerreotype and the review was by a gentleman named Aaron Riccio. Let’s just say he doled out some tough love. Rereading the review now, it doesn’t seem so bad of a review. In fact, I agree with most of what he wrote. But at the time, it devastated me. I vowed that one day, I would write a play that Aaron Riccio would like and thus, vindicate myself.

Today, it finally happened. He likes me. He really likes me.

“home/sick” extends

stephen — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:02:44 +0000

Good news! The Assembly Theater’s critically acclaimed home/sick, a NY Times and Backstage Critic’s Pick, will extend for three additional performances, running through Tuesday August 2nd at the Collapsable Hole.

Added performances are:
Sunday, July 31st at 8pm
Monday, August 1st at 8pm
Tuesday, August 2nd at 8pm.

You can buy tickets for all performances here.

In case you still need to be convinced to come, here’s what the critics have had to say:

“Six violent, polyamorous radicals are trapped by imperialism, racism and bourgeois mores. … And the Collapsable Hole — a converted garage in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that barely contains this explosive new show — throbs with their claustrophobia…By the play’s end the audience has witnessed a sort of sociological Big Bang, as this tight, angry ball of political energy suddenly bursts, and the group disbands forever.”
—The New York Times (Critic’s Pick)

“[The] story is packed into such an intelligent and dynamic package that it’s worth a trip to the Collapsable Hole for a lesson in the vagaries of making history.”
—Backstage (Critic’s Pick)

“Impressively researched and clear-eyed, home/sick shows us the Underground’s internal contradictions, and we see Bolshevik passion lapsing into self-delusion and then flaring up again, until we are unsure what to admire and what to deplore.”
—TimeOut NY

“The company’s nuanced research and invested performances largely pay off with an absorbing, critical-minded narrative.”
—Village Voice

“Captivating portrayals of orgies, drug consumption, hilarious exercise routines and just plain goofing fill in the blanks of a potentially lifeless history of the leading members of the nation’s most famous and violent student radical organization. Somehow, they remind us that there’s some Weatherman in each of us.”
—L Magazine

“home/sick” is a NYTimes Critic’s Pick

stephen — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:24:36 +0000

Hey, this is exciting. My first time in The New York Times and they like me. They really like me.
So much so that home/sick is a Critic’s pick for this week. Get your tickets before they disappear once the NYTimes readership gets over their inexplicable fear of Brooklyn.

You can read the review here.

Left Glove Review

stephen — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:09:39 +0000

My review of Mac Wellman’s new play, Left Glove, is up at The Outlet. If you’ve never experienced the joy that is Mac Wellman messing with your mind, you’re really missing out on something great. You can read it here.

Probably the smartest thing anyone has written about “home/sick”

stephen — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:00:36 +0000

Will Kenton is a pretty great guy. He always has something smart to say about my plays. But this time, he’s truly outdone himself. Just read it.

First review for “BrainExplode!”

stephen — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 22:07:53 +0000

After weeks of fretting and hair-pulling, BrainExplode! had its first real show last night. And now, scarcely 24 hours later, the first review just showed up. How did we do?

“BrainExplode! represents a new standard from which all game influence theater must be judged upon.”

Aw, shucks. You can read the rest of the review here.
And you can buy tickets to BrainExplode here.