Horse Trade Group Presents BROKEN DOG LEGS

Everyday, she meditates at the dog park to try to let go of her slowly deteriorating parents and dead brother. There, she meets her therapist in the wet tongue of a Black Lab/ German Shepard standing alone by the fence. The therapist dog, who wears a red robe and smokes an intricate
pipe, guides 'She' on missions to go to the banks of the grave of the boy that is buried, to take off her grotesque mask and hang her face on a doorknob, and to look her dad straight in the eye. This one-woman play is about putting yourself back together after everything you once knew and trusted has fallen apart.

Prior to the show there will be a presentation of three short (5-10 minute) plays by Emily Conbere.
The Container directed by Kel Haney Love Letter to Odysseus directed by Michael Rau I Need You directed by Larissa Lury.

The production, produced by Horse Trade Theater Group and A Muse Collective, will play at the UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place between 1st and A) January 23-31, Friday & Saturday at 8pm. Tickets ($12) are available by calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444 or online at www.horseTRADE.info.

Emily Conbere (Playwright/Director) is a playwright, lyricist, and composer. Currently, she has a playwriting residency with East River Commedia Theatre, Mabou Mines Theater, and American Lyric Theater (ALT). ALT is providing Emily with mentorship and instruction from the most revered opera composers and librettists in the country. In 2007, Emily's opera Nylons was presented at Symphony Space.  She was also a Macdowell Colony fellow, where she developed the libretto for The Bath Opera which she is currently composing. Emily's song cycle The Jamal Lullabies has been developed with Ensemble Studio Theater and Collective Unconscious, and the German magazine Theater der Zeit wrote a feature article about the lullabies in March. Recently, the lullabies were a hit at the Minnesota Fringe Festival and were played on the radio station KFAI in Minneapolis. Emily's musical BuckHunter was produced at PS122 and Ensemble Studio Theater in 2006 and is in pending a future production with director Alex Timbers. Her play The Scholar was presented at the State Theater of Bielefeld in Germany, and was printed by publisher S. Fischer Verlag in 2008. Emily's play Girl Boy God was performed at Ensemble Studio Theater in 2007 and Williamstown, 2008. Emily is a former member of Youngblood at Ensemble Studio Theater and has an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University.

Polly Pollak is an actor, writer and producer based in NYC. She both stared in and wrote one third of the three-woman show Amusing Lies and Lullabies at the Kraine Theater. She is the host and producer of Penny's Open Mic, a weekly show located at Under St. Mark's Theater. As well as producing dozens of shows in NYC since she moved here a little over a year ago she is a staple feature performer at the bi-weekly variety show God Tastes Like Chicken. She has performed in
and co-written several theater productions on the London Fringe circuit including The Yabbok, Mozart and Don Juan and Mysticism Through Dance. She graduated with a degree in Theater and Sociology. After graduation she studied at the London theater intensive program at Rose Bruford college UK. She has won awards for her writing as well as been featured in a number of readings in NYC.

Horse Trade Theater Group is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work, it has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater.  Horse Trade's Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent Theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. It is also the home of FRIGID New York – the first and only festival of its kind in New York City.

For more information visit: www.horseTRADE.info.

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