FRIGID New York Fest Offers Show-Sampler Feb.25

FRIGID Snapshot Show Horse TRADE in Association with EXIT Theatre Present, FRIGID New York, A Celebration of Independent Theater, A CAFF Member festival hosted February 27 - March 9.

Performances are Mondays - Fridays at 6PM-midnight and Saturdays & Sundays 1PM - 1AM.

Tickets: $5 - $15 will be available on Smarttix at 212-868-4444 or online at www.FRIGIDnewyork.info

Performances will be in two locations:
The Kraine Theater & The Red Room (85 E 4th St New York, NY 10003). No Wheelchair access.
UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place, between 1st Ave and Avenue A, New York, NY 10009) Basement Theater - No Wheelchair access

Kick-Off of the 2nd annual FRIGID Festival with participating artists, staff and volunteers at the first-ever FRIGID snapshot show!

30 shows to choose from, what do you see? Join host Morgan Lindsey Tachco on Monday, February 25 at 7PM at UNDER St. Marks to catch an early glimpse of the fest at the FRIGID Snapshot Show: 12 participating artists have exactly 5 minutes to get you hooked on FRIGID!

Suggested donation; all donations will be given to the participating artists. Bar will be open! For more information on FRIGID and all the shows in this years festival visit: www.FRIGIDnewyork.info.

JOIN US FOR SNAPSHOTS OF:

THANKS FOR THE SCABIES, JERKFACE!: Dan Bernitt, Lexington, KY; Meet Dan. His parent's talk to stuffed animals, he lost an arm wrestling match to a drag queen, and all of Wall-Mart knows that he has scabies.

GREAT HYMN OF THANKSGIVING/COVERSATION STORM: Around a dinner table, three actors sing, pray, beat forks, deliver the news, and snap between scenes in mid-sentence in this brutal but timely deconstruction of the War-on-Terror.

PARTS IS PARTS: the real kim harmon , San Francisco, CA; Blood, death, baked goods and the lovely type of hope that only blossoms out of political, spiritual, and personal despair.

HER MAJESTY: EXIT Theatre, San Francisco, CA; A door slamming, quick-change farce in which Queens quarrel with divas, dressers dally with dullards and gossips get the goat of gigolos.

STUCK!: Jennie Franks, Telluride, CO; A one- woman show about being locked in a Starbucks bathroom somewhere in Midtown. But being stuck in a toilet is just the beginning…

AMERICAN BADASS (Or 12 Characters In Search Of A National Identity): Chris Harcum, Brooklyn, NY; One of downtown NYC's favorite solo performers returns with this multiple-character examination of the State of the world as we head into another round of election hijinks.

ANTONIN…MON ARTAUD: Etdc Projects Lab, NY, NY; An irreverent performance-art-psychodrama that fuses the gory characters of the Grand Guignol and the shocking awareness of the Theatre of Cruelty to explore Artaud's brilliant, lucid madness.

DIARY OF A MAD FASHIONISTA: S & D Productions, NY, NY; Based on the wildly popular comic blog, the most feared woman in fashion (after Anna Wintour) holds forth on love, abusing the help, and fashion.

XY(T): Kestryl Lowrey NY, NY; Do you have the balls to become a man?  XY(T) brings to life a series of questions, contradictions, and characters around the theme of testosterone.

DIVERSEY HARBOR: Don't Eat the Pictures Productions, NY, NY; Explores the loneliness and the desire to connect in cities through monologues by four characters.

REBEL WITHOUT A NICHE: Too Much Free Time Productions, Brooklyn, NY; The most awkward dead-end jobs anyone's ever worked, injected with a high-octane cocktail of drollness! A Tale of an unemployed artist supporting himself with a series of bizarre jobs in New York City.

HAP SCOTCH: Sapling Players NY, NY; A tour of lives in transition. Before one settles on a lifestyle, career, religion, or partner hosts of adventures and (pre)occupations influence the unmanageable tug of war.

All FRIGID Festival participants take home 100% of their box office. www.FRIGIDnewyork.info