{"id":119,"date":"2015-11-21T01:58:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T09:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brandonwicke.com\/?page_id=119"},"modified":"2016-01-10T00:44:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T08:44:15","slug":"119-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/brandonwicke.com\/index.php\/plays\/119-2\/","title":{"rendered":"“NOIR”"},"content":{"rendered":"

“When I was a child, my brain was sucked into a jet engine, shattering my mind into billions of fragments and scattering them across the universe! … Luckily, that instant lay on a fault in space-time, granting me status as an object beyond reality – GREATER THAN THE GODS!”<\/em><\/p>\n

– The Void Chocolate Vendor<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"T-Shirt<\/a>Easily the most absurd play in Wicke’s roster, thanks to the unholy collaboration with Jamie Klassen, a close friend of Brandon’s during their time at Stratford Central Secondary School. <\/em>It was first performed, by a SCSS company featuring both playwrights, for the Sears Drama Festival <\/strong><\/em>in 2007. It has since been re-mounted under Wicke’s direction in Toronto during the summer of 2015.<\/p>\n

Political buzz-words, pseudo-science, mathematical quandaries, metaphysical absurdities (and a chanting chorus of Fascists) confront the paradox of 100% dark Void Chocolate.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Length: <\/strong>20 – 30 minutes<\/em><\/p>\n

Characters: <\/strong>7 (2 male, 5 gender unspecified)<\/em><\/p>\n

Keywords: <\/strong>Absurd, Outrageous, Pseudo-Scientific, Anti-Theatre<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“When I was a child, my brain was sucked into a jet engine, shattering my mind into billions of fragments and scattering them across the universe! … Luckily, that instant lay on a fault in space-time, granting me status as an object beyond reality – GREATER THAN THE GODS!” – The Void Chocolate Vendor Easily […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":72,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6YnH1-1V","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":83,"url":"http:\/\/brandonwicke.com\/index.php\/plays\/tarrare\/","url_meta":{"origin":119,"position":0},"title":"\"Tarrare\"","date":"November 21, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Tarrare, or 'The Consumption' tells the astonishing true tale of a young soldier maligned by fate and condemned to a life of ravenous hunger. Set in Paris during the tumultuous French Revolutionary Wars, it is the compassionate retelling of an obscure but fascinating story from the strangest annals of late\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/brandonwicke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Final-Scene-Square-280x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":80,"url":"http:\/\/brandonwicke.com\/index.php\/plays\/rock-paper-scissors\/","url_meta":{"origin":119,"position":1},"title":"\"Rock, Paper, Scissors\"","date":"November 21, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Two people locked in an endless battle of wits, words, and fingers, Rock, Paper, Scissors shows what occurs when a game of chance seems determined to defy its players. After thousands of tie-games, the unwitting contestants are forced to reckon with the possibility that their game may have nothing to\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/brandonwicke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Rock-Paper-Scissors-BareFiction-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":107,"url":"http:\/\/brandonwicke.com\/index.php\/plays\/zombie\/","url_meta":{"origin":119,"position":2},"title":"\"Zombie\"","date":"November 21, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"When slacker buddies Mike and Phil discover a shambling zombie has taken up residence in Mike's basement, it looks as if a good old fashioned zombie-slaying romp is imminent. However, when Mike's girlfriend Jen arrives with a zen new philosophy regarding the zombie phenomenon, the two budding slayers of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":92,"url":"http:\/\/brandonwicke.com\/index.php\/plays\/third-person\/","url_meta":{"origin":119,"position":3},"title":"\"Third Person\"","date":"November 21, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"In an obscure and unexplored clearing, beyond the bounds of space and time, an ageless, otherworldly being lies waiting to be discovered. It has watched the universe take shape, life sprout from earth's ancient waters, and stood witness to the entire span of mankind's past and future. Or, at least,\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/brandonwicke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/fringe-flyer-small-232x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brandonwicke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brandonwicke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brandonwicke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brandonwicke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brandonwicke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/brandonwicke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"http:\/\/brandonwicke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119\/revisions\/188"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brandonwicke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brandonwicke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}