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Jun 17

TERMS OF USE to be read at the Pear Theatre’s FRESH PRODUCE event

Posted on June 17, 2018 by Patrick M Brennan

I’m very proud to announce that TERMS OF USE is going to get a reading at the Pear Theatre (https://www.thepear.org/)!

TERMS OF USE is a sci-fi/horror mashup, a cyberpunk thriller about the world just around the corner. In this world, Martha wants to save her hacker brother CC from a dangerous obsession with virtual reality. But she discovers that he has learned how to open a door to a realm darker than she could have ever imagined. Can she rescue him before he is lost forever?

The reading will take place on Saturday July 20, 2018, at 8:30 PM at the Pear Theatre, 1110 La Avenida Street, Mountain View, CA 94043. Tickets ($10 per reading, or $25 for all three) can be purchased by visiting www.thepear.org or by calling (650) 254-1148.

Paul Braverman is directing the following exceptionally talented actors:

– DM (Damaris) Divito as MISS V, the corporate avatar of Virtopia.

– Michael (Mikey) Weiland as CC, an explorer in the further regions of experience.

– Gretta Hestenes-Stimson as FANTA, CC’s younger sister and an infamous hacker.

– Nicole Martin as MARTHA, CC’s older sister, who is trying to rescue CC from his obsession with virtual reality.

– Keith Larson as ERIK, CC’s friend and housemate, who dreams of being the next Steve Jobs.

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– Robyn Ginsberg Braverman will read the stage directions.

TERMS OF USE will be one of three plays which are participating in the Fresh Produce series at the Pear. The other plays are:

– CONFESSION, by Barry Slater, on July 21st at 1:30 PM

– DR. ROWAN, THE DEMON, AND LOVE : a demonological comedy by Carol Wolf, on July 21st at 4:00 PM.

As a member of the Pear Playwrights Guild (https://www.thepear.org/pwg/), I have been fortunate to have the moral support, patient ears, and thoughful advice of my fellow theater artists as I wrote TERMS OF USE, and they have contributed immeasurably to the task of bringing the play to life. I am very grateful to the Pear, and the Guild members in particular, for all their help in this endeavor.

https://www.thepear.org/fresh-produce-1/2018/7/20/terms-of-use-by-patrick-brennan

Related:

https://www.broadwayworld.com/san-francisco/article/Pear-Theatre-Presents-FRESH-PRODUCE-Readings-720-21-20180608

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Mar 26

Vermeerizent

Posted on March 26, 2014 by Patrick M Brennan

I’m feeling prescient this morning. From my upcoming play Terms of Use :

 AT RISE: ENTER MISS V. She is a young, beautiful, sexy woman wearing revealing clothing and a come-hither smile. She has a shiny helmet tucked under her arm and she speaks directly to the audience.

MISS V:

Welcome to the amazing world of Vermeerizent! Here, you can live out your wildest dreams. Do and be anything you have ever imagined. See, hear, touch, taste and smell anything – and everything! You’ll swear it’s all real. Join millions of people from all over the world who visit Vermeerizent every day! It’s a whole new world in which to work, play, live, and love. There’s no charge and there never will be. And it’s easy to use! Just wear this – the V-Helm. Connect it to your network and we’ll do the rest! You’ll be amazed at how real it all is! So sign up for an account today. Vermeerizent: Free! and Amazing!

A fast-talking DISCLAIMER VOICE is heard as MISS V preens seductively.

DISCLAIMER VOICE:

Offer void where prohibited. Internet access required to use the service – fees may apply. V-Helm requires refundable deposit. Visit our website today for more details. Side effects may occur. Use at your own risk. Use of the Vermeerizent service subject to Terms of Use agreement.

MISS V:

Come to Vermeerizent. I’ll be waiting for you.

BLACKOUT. EXIT MISS V.

UPDATE August 4, 2018: When I wrote this version of the play I was using the name “Vermeerizent” for the Virtual Reality system that pervades the play. Since then I’ve adopted the name “Virtopia,” which everyone seems to agree is a better choice.

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Mar 12

Spinner Icon Generation Script

Posted on March 12, 2014 by Patrick M Brennan

A potential employer asked me to code up a quick Android application as a challenge. I enjoyed doing it, but in the course of building it I discovered, surprisingly, that “image loading” spinner art was not just a simple web search away – or, at least, I wasn’t able to find any easily. Sure, I could pay for one – but why would I do that? Instead, I quickly cranked out something by hand, so I could submit the application. However, I thought to myself that as soon as I had a moment, I should write a quick script to generate a pretty spinner (prettier than I did by hand, that’s for sure.) Here’s the script:

#! /usr/bin/python

import math
from PIL import Image

def makeSpinner(filename, size, thickness):
    """Make a spinner image. A square image of size x size will be allocated.
    The spinner will be contained in a ring with an outer diameter of size
    and an inner diameter of size-thickness."""

    image = Image.new('RGBA', (size,size), 0)
    center = int(size / 2.0)
    radius = int(size / 2.0)

    angle = 0.0
    anglestep = math.atan(0.5 / radius) * (180.0 / math.pi)
    while angle < 360.0:
        bright = int(255 * (1.0 - angle/360.0))
        color = (bright, bright, bright, 255)
        angle_radians = math.pi * angle/180.0
        for r in range(radius-thickness, radius):
            x = round(center + r * math.cos(angle_radians))
            y = round(center - r * math.sin(angle_radians))
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            #print coordinate, color
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    image.save(filename + '.png', 'PNG')

# Make the spinners for the application.
makeSpinner('ic_progress', 128, 16)
makeSpinner('ic_progress_small', 64, 8)

And here are the outputs of this script. I think they look pretty nice (although the one part that doesn’t show well here is the transparency):

ic_progress_small

ic_progress

 

This is just another example of how, right out of the box, with all its libraries, Python is a fantastic and versatile tool. I particularly like the ability to so easily generate and manipulate images! The whole project, including the script shown above, can be found here, on my github page.

 

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Jan 07

Creeped Out or Relieved?

Posted on January 7, 2014 by Patrick M Brennan

The web has started to serve ads to me for products and services meant to address my suicidal thoughts. That might be fine, except for the part about me not havingIf viagra without prescription drugs can prevent the development of prostate cancer, this reduces the need for surgery and the risk increases with age. Now, female viagra samples depending on the intensity of the circumstance, one may even require a neurosurgeon. This donssite.com cheapest cialis type of treatment is very quick in response since one is able to attain an erection within a few minutes. They should focus on the packing of these generic brand viagra http://donssite.com/Three-horses-icy-cold-field-winter-ice-storm.htm tablets to ensure that high-quality packing material is used for their packing, to keep the quality of tablets intact. any suicidal thoughts. I’m not sure whether I’m creeped out that the web thinks it can predict my psychological state, or relieved that it’s so bad at it.

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Sep 06

Singulariteen: Playwright’s Notes

Posted on September 6, 2013 by Patrick M Brennan

Fear of the future is part of our condition. We have the amazing power to imagine the deep future, and when we imagine all the things that can go wrong, it’s easy to get alarmed. Global Warming, Economic Chaos, Ecological Collapse, World War, Unstoppable Pandemics: our fears of the future can keep us up at night and even render us paralyzed in our daily lives.

But let’s be honest.  As much as we dread Catastrophe, part of us craves it!  We may even look forward to it, desperately wanting it to happen, in all of its gore-filled glory. Bring it on, we say. We hate our boring, humdrum lives. We hate being locked into a rut, we hate that we’re stuck running a script that somebody else wrote – and once it’s run, it’s done. We’re done.  We yearn for a big event which will disrupt that script and take us off that rail we’re on. Something exciting. Something interesting. A way to really live, even if the whole world has to die in the process. We WANT the Apocalypse!

Prophets have always known this, and this is why Prophecy has always been big business, from John the Baptist to John the Revelator to Ray Kurzweil, and while Kurzweil may be richer than the Johns ever were, their book will never be on the remainder pile. On the other hand, the Baptist’s head ended up on Herod’s silver platter, while Kurzweil’s will likely spend the next several centuries in a stainless steel vat of liquid nitrogen, waiting for his soul to be downloaded into a shiny new synthetic body. He may be in for a disappointment, but at least he is drinking the same Kool-Aid he’s selling.

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Aug 28

King, Obama, and the Surveillance State

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Patrick M Brennan

On the 50th anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s speech in Washington, DC, as our first black president speaks at the same spot, it might be a good idea to remember that in that time, Dr King was being spied upon, constantly, aggressively and thoroughly illegally. Dr King was never under suspicion of committing a crime. He was not a terrorist, nor did anyone believe he was a terrorist. At no point in time did any police agency stand before a judge and ask for a warrant to tap his phone, bug his hotel rooms, read his mail and follow his movements. The entire point of the effort was to discredit, harass, intimidate, and silence a man who was engaged in peaceful, Constitutionally-protected, political speech. The vast spying power of the state, justified by a need to fight an existential threat to the United States, was used instead to try to silence dissent. Because that’s what it’s always used for, then – and now.

Oh, and did you notice how well all those FBI agents following King around actually protected him from an actual, real terrorist? Right.

The major difference between then and now is that today, the state has the power to bug each and every one of us as thoroughly as it did King. We each have a microphone we carry around, that the FBI can turn on at will. They read our email. They know who we call and they know what we say. They track our movements. And all of this is done without a court order or even a suspicion of having committed a crime. And it is only a matter of time before the trove of information that is being gathered on us all is harnessed to squash dissent.

President Obama might consider this history when he stands up and talks in Dr King’s place, as his administration relentlessly advances the perpetuation and expansion of the National Surveillance State. He might, but he probably won’t.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mlks-speech-attracted-fbis-intense-attention/2013/08/27/31c8ebd4-0f60-11e3-8cdd-bcdc09410972_story.html

 

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Aug 28

Teaser for the Next Play

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Patrick M Brennan

Coming in 2014: Terms of Use.

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Aug 28

Singulariteen is Top Seller at the SF Fringe 2013!

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Patrick M Brennan

I’m very pleased to announce that Singulariteen, my new Pre-Apocalyptic Nightmare Comedy, is the top seller of advance tickets at the 2013 San Francisco Fringe Festival! We are hard at worklowest priced tadalafil http://respitecaresa.org/event/arc-family-day-out/ Pheromones are perceived through olfactory sensors, and studies suggest that they are excreted by several areas of the body such as skin, sweat glands, saliva and urine. Do not cheap viagra compromise with the time you waste in putting on condom can also be cause for erectile dysfunction. Depending on associated risks, your doctor may advise you order levitra online respitecaresa.org a course of histamine-blocking agent for a few weeks. The anti-impotent medicine pharmacy online viagra here plays an important role by altering the process that causes Ed. getting everything ready to rock a full house, and it’s shaping up to be an explosively funny show. It’s a very good time to get your tickets now and join us!

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Aug 14

On Being Surrounded by Smart and Committed People

Posted on August 14, 2013 by Patrick M Brennan

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Jul 26

Announcing the Cast of Singulariteen!

Posted on July 26, 2013 by Patrick M Brennan

Undefined Symbol Theater is proud to announce the cast of Singulariteen by Patrick M Brennan, directed by Hester Schell, which will have its world premiere at the San Francisco Fringe 2013:

HELEN : Terry Bamberger
GEORGE : Steve Menasche
EDDIE : Marcus D. Lance
SISSY : Emily Radosevich
JESUS : RJ Castaneda
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We are very fortunate to have such talented and professional actors committed to this project. They join a top-notch production team in what is shaping up to be a very exciting show. We are looking forward to making you laugh at Singulariteen!

PS: Now would be a good time to get your tickets, before we sell out! : www.brownpapertickets.com/event/390097

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