From September 2-17, Brat will be entertaining Philly audiences at the Festival Bar and Social Club.  Come recede to the underworld of the Philadelphia Live Arts and Fringe Festival, where all the seedy characters will be lying low and plotting their next artistic takeovers.  In the depths of the RUBA Club-Studios, feed off of the intimate environs, groovy music, and boozy entertainment programmed by Brat resident artist Jess Conda.

21+ / No Cover
Doors open at 10pm every night of the Festival

A WORLD PREMIERE
By Madi Distefano

Previews October 27-29 and November 1
November 2-19

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 BRAT PRODUCTIONS RETURNS

“Frightfully funny…It's a whole lot of fun, a good time!”
             —CurtainUp.com, 10/11/10
Now thru November 7  ►  Tickets on sale now!

It’s all Ionesco, all the time! On June 29 & 30, 2007, Brat took up residence at the Wilma Theater for an Absurdist marathon and true test of mental endurance. Revived by Brat Productions to celebrate their 10th anniversary, 6 actors performed Eugene Ionesco’s masterpiece of metaphysical nonsense every hour, on the hour…for 24 hours.

Original director (and Brat founder) Madi Distefano returned to helm the performance marathon that American Theatre Magazine called “the best-ever theatrical critique of Suburban banality.”
 

Lenny Haas, Mary McCool and Erik Ransom played fifteen gender-bending characters in Greg Giovanni's underground classic, presented as part of the Big-Messy Retro-Fest honoring the playwright’s twenty-year career as Philly’s resident provocateur. Director Madi Distefano, who performed with Giovanni during the sold-out run of the 2001 Philly Fringe, helmed a fully re-imagined staging for Brat’s entry in the 2008 Fest. A tale of world domination and personal loss told with Giovanni's signature blend of surrealism, absurdism, cabaret, vaudeville, camp, farce and film noir, Cocktail injected lounge-lizard venom into shop-worn pop songs while gleefully dancing on the grave of theatrical realism.

Framed by the true events of America Online’s leak of 658,000 user search logs to the public—and the subsequent uproar over one deviant user—User 927 took a provocative look at the nature of search in the Internet era and the dangers that seem to spring from every click of the mouse.

“GREAT FUN!” -Philadelphia CityPaper

It’s 1958. Everybody likes Ike. Havana is hopping, Greenwich Village is popping…will an H-Bomb be dropping? From a Beat coffeehouse in New York to a mysterious source of radioactivity off the coast of Georgia—and with a pit stop at the pre–Castro casinos of Cuba—the intrepid ladies get themselves into pickles and jams aplenty, all set to an infectious Mambo rhythm!