UNDERNEATH THE LINTEL
An Impressive Presentation of Lovely Evidences
“A library book is returned 133 years overdue.”
No note. No apology. Just a tattered travel guide, a trail of impossible clues, and one furious Dutch librarian with one night to prove the world is stranger than it looks.
Seven scraps. One impossible trail.
A battered travel guide. A laundry claim. A tram ticket. A love letter. A song caught on wax. Each scrap is absurd. Each scrap is official. Each scrap points somewhere it should not.
The Librarian asks only that you examine them closely.
A librarian’s itinerary through doubt.
Hoofddorp → London → Bonn → Derby → Dingtao → Zabludow → New York → Australia → Everywhere.
The Librarian begins with a fine to collect. He ends somewhere far more dangerous: meaning.
Hoofddorp
A quiet library. A morning slot. A book that should not exist.
The Librarian stamps dates, files complaints, and lives a life of careful order. Then Evidence #1 arrives.
London
The trousers are real. This is bad news.
A claim ticket sends him across the Channel, where chaos, theatre, and an unwashed pair of pants await.
Bonn
A tram report. A dog. A man who will not sit.
The trail grows stranger, and the Librarian discovers that public transportation records may contain metaphysical implications.
Derby
The case goes historical. The stomach objects.
An old account book suggests the same man may have been seen nearly two centuries earlier.
Dingtao
One post office box. One letter. One impossible address.
The Librarian goes to China expecting answers. The box contains something worse: longing.
Zabludow
A voice captured. A song out of place.
In a vanished town, on an old recording, a tune appears where it has no business being.
New York
A concert. A dance. A clue in the archive.
For one night, the Librarian almost forgets the case. This too becomes evidence.
Australia
The chest in the attic. The jacket. The coin.
Among the belongings of a woman who waited, the case becomes personal.
Everywhere
Graffiti, ruins, benches, temples, walls.
The trail stops being a route and becomes a message: I was here.
Leave Your Mark
Across centuries, ruins, bathroom stalls, monuments, and margins, one message keeps appearing:
I WAS HERE.
The Librarian has submitted his evidence. Now you may submit yours.
Filed Testimonies
Small declarations from passersby, suspects, witnesses, and fellow wanderers.
“I rode the F train at 3 a.m. I existed.”
“I scratched my name into a tile in the kitchen.”
“I stood under the lintel and did not duck.”
“I ate the last pierogi. I was here.”
“I loved someone who did not love me back. Still: I was here.”
“I left a coin on a bench for the next person.”
Listen While You Wander
A playlist for obsession, exile, evidence, and defiant dancing.
These are songs for following a trail too far: from library silence to train stations, archives, shtetls, World’s Fairs, old griefs, and the sudden discovery that the body still knows how to dance.
A solo mystery in the shape of a confession.
A book is returned to a Dutch library 133 years late. Inside it: a claim ticket, a trail of marginalia, and the first hint of a mystery that will carry one mild, meticulous librarian across the world and out of his own carefully filed life.
Funny, strange, erudite, and unexpectedly devastating, Underneath the Lintel is a theatrical detective story about faith, bureaucracy, regret, and the human need to leave a mark before we vanish.
Written by Glen Berger. Performed by Edward Gibbons-Brown. Presented at UNDER St. Marks for one night only.
The names on the case file.
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- Performer
Edward Gibbons-Brown
Edward Gibbons-Brown is a New York–based theatre artist, producer, and performer whose work often lives where comedy, obsession, history, and existential panic begin politely arguing with one another.
He has performed Underneath the Lintel five times in previous productions across the region and in Florida, returning to the piece with a new creative team, a new costume, and a renewed fascination with the Librarian's impossible need to prove that one life — any life — has mattered.
- Director
Jasmine Jade Binder
Actor, Writer, Makeup Artist, Director, Stage Manager, and Production Assistant. Attended AMDA and the John Casablancas Modeling & Career Center.
Film: “Younger Days” (dir. Leo Lyu), “When The Lights Went Out” (dir. Tyrell Jason). Commercial: “Sephora: We Belong to Something Beautiful” campaign, “Julep: Beauty Hacks” TikTok.
Production Assistant: “Anne of a Thousand Faces” (Gene Frankel Theater Festival). Assistant Director: “Last Meals,” Village Theatre Group Winter One-Act Festival.
- Producer
VoxArt Lab Productions
A New York–based production company specializing in theater, media, entertainment, and the arts.
Founded by two Argentinian creatives — Gaston Leguizamon and Agustina García Ramírez — the company was born with the mission to create projects that represent all artistic voices on stage, combining artistic passion, diverse storytelling, and productions that leave a lasting impact on the audience's soul.
VoxArt Lab Productions is not just a production company: it's a creative lab where ideas transform into living emotions on stage.
The evidence is filed.
The trail is warm.
The Librarian has one night.
Come hear the case before it disappears back into the stacks.
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