Cast Announced for Off-Broadway's Fatal Attraction

Gorilla Productions, Executive Producer Will Bennett, is proud to present the deconstructed, parodic Off-Broadway production of the seminal 80's film, Fatal Attraction: A Greek Tragedy by Alana McNair and Kate Wilkinson directed by Timothy Haskell. Previews for this limited engagement at The East 13th Street Theatre (located at 136 East 13th Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues, just southeast of Union Square) begin on Friday, July 1st, Press performances begin Tuesday, July 5th, Opens on Sunday, July 10th at 6 PM and ends Saturday, August 27th. The schedule is Tuesdays – Saturdays at 8 PM, Fridays and Saturdays at 10:30 PM and Sundays at 6 PM. Tickets will be $45 except for $50 for Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM and $40 for Fridays and Saturdays at 10:30 PM. Tickets can be purchased by calling Ticket Central at 212.279.4200, or by going to www.ticketcentral.com.

Fatal Attraction: A Greek Tragedy is a new comedy that lovingly, liberally and loosely parodies the well-known thriller film from 1987. A big-time corporate lawyer has a one-night stand with a no-nonsense business woman while his wife is away. When the corporate hag forgets her place, all heck breaks loose! The park, the opera, the bunny, and the tub ensue.

Skewering the film's blatant fear of the successful business woman, and celebration of traditional family values (hmmm, sounds eerily familiar), this Greek Tragedy adopts a chorus that comments on the action by using texts from the Greek tragedy oeuvre, as well as from turn of the century home etiquette propaganda. Running at a breakneck pace of 70 minutes, this screen to stage adaptation is very much its own story, told with a kinetic beat, a boiled bunny dream/ dance sequence and lots of Kung-Pow action (yes, there are added fight sequences), as well as taking a dark and twisted turn to climax to a finale even more suspenseful than the film!

Corey Feldman, playing the part of 'Michael Douglas', is an actor synonymous with the 80's. He was the star of such films as Goonies, Lost Boys, Gremlins, Stand By Me, License to Drive, The 'burbs, Bordello of Blood, Friday 13th Part IV and V, the voice of Donatello in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movies, and Many, Many More, As Well As the TV series "The Bad News Bears" and The First Season Of "The Surreal Life". He currently lends his voice to the "Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!" on Toon Disney and ABC Family Networks as well as starring in the upcoming film The Birthday, presented in real time in which he appears in every frame.

Director Timothy Haskell directed the still running I Love Paris about Paris Hilton at the Blue Heron Arts Center that is, at 9 months, now the longest running show in the theatre's history, as well as the comedy Corporate Rock also at the Blue Heron. He might be best known for creating and directing the recent cult hit Road House that transferred from Off-Off Broadway to Off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theatre earlier this season. He is also the creator of the Halloween Adventure Haunted House that had lines around the block last year and is now an annual event.

Alana McNair (Co-Writer / Glenn) is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School. She has also studied with performance artist Karen Finley for the past few years. Her full-length work, Just Piddlin': a dirt road operetta, was produced last year. Kate Wilkinson (Co-Writer / Anne) is also a graduate of NYU's Tisch. She has written and directed several short films, including Flufferlover, Fries & Thighs: The After Hours World of the Market Diner, and Waterloo Pier. Together, McNair and Wilkinson are the pop duo "Ladystein".

The rest of the cast of Fatal Attraction includes Kellie Arens, Nick Arens (both in Road House and Corporate Rock), Ebony Cross, Aaron Haskell (Road House and Corporate Rock and I Love Paris) and Sergio Lobito.

The rest of the artistic team includes: Rebeca Ramirez (Road House, Catcall, Corporate Rock, Amerigrante - Dance Choreography), Rod Kinter (resident fight director of the NY City Opera - Fight Choreography), Wendy Yang (Costumes), Tyler Micoleau (Lortel and OBIE Award Winner and Drama Desk nominee for BUG - Lights), Paul Smithyman (former Production Manager of Lincoln Center - Sets), Faye Armon (OBIE Award winner for BUG - Props), Vincent Olivieri (Omnium Gatherum - Sound).