The Exponential Festival and The Brick present
u are the dream
by Allyson Dwyer
January 24 – 31, 2025
Running Time: 60 Minutes
a two-hander internet triptych – a love story between the internet and homo sapiens <3?
Didi and Dada are two early humans excited for the future, unaware of the progress and technology that is to come long after they stare at the moon. 30,000 years later, Fuu and Goten meet in an AOL chatroom on the cusp of adulthood. How did it once feel to dream behind our eyes and wait at the screen, anticipating a response? Will we ever do this again?
Featuring
Megan Hill & Ben Holbrook
Written & directed by Allyson Dwyer
Prop & costume design by Hannah Birch-Carl
Scenic design by Forest Entsminger
Illusion design by Reuven Glezer
Stage managed by Rishita Chowdary
Sound design by Alyse Lamb
Lighting design by Christina F. Tang
Produced by Mind Dream Theater & Most Unwanted Productions
Extreme gratitude to The Brick, Loading Dock Theatre, The Tank & Clubbed Thumb for providing space & development. Thank you Carl Holder & Connor Scully & Theresa Buchheister. Thank you to the moon. Thank you fiberoptic cables. Thank you 56k dial-up modem.
THE EXPONENTIAL FESTIVAL
JANUARY’S BROOKLYN-BASED THEATRE FESTIVAL
~ A pleasure, a mess, a thrill, and a dream. ~
Exponential is a month-long January festival dedicated to New York City-based emerging artists working in experimental performance. The participants in this multi-artist, multi-venue festival are committed to ecstatic creativity in the face of commercialism. Exponential is driven by inclusiveness and a diversity of artists, forms, and ideas coupled with utopian resource-sharing, mentoring and the championing of risky, rigorous work in eclectic fields.
