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!

For those tired of hearing the same old story every December, Brat presented a whole new story for the ages--the Philadelphia premiere of A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant. This light-hearted look at America’s favorite celebrity religion featured a cast of 9 children portraying L. Ron Hubbard, TomKat, John Travolta, and the evil alien Xenu, among others.

Brat's Barrymore Award-winning production for new approaches to collaboration. Rock musicians, writers, directors and actors--40 artists in all--came together to create original ten-minute musicals in less than one week. Presented at the Khyber Bar in Old City, and with Martha Manning as host, this 4-performance event showcased the many talents of Philly's burgeoning music and theatre scene

Bacon! Money! Blood! FATBOY is a super-size portion of American consumption. Written by FringeNYC co-founder John Clancy and winner of the Edinburgh Festival “Fringe First,” this brutal comedy presented a kinetic, shocking, dead-on funhouse mirror reflection of the world today. Presented at the 2007 Philly Fringe.

"Mindlessly obscene" - Inquirer

"Crude, rude, and thoroughly enjoyable. Over the top, ridiculous, potentially offensive, and very, very funny." - Phillyist.com