Dandy Darkly's TRIGGER HAPPY! Plays This Weekend at UNDER St. Marks

FRIGID New York @ Horse Trade will present a limited engagement of Dandy Darkly's Trigger Happy!, written and performed by alt-cabaret superstar Dandy Darkly, this weekend, October 29, 30, and 31 at UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place between 1st Avenue and Avenue A) with performances at 8pm. Tickets ($25; $20 students) may be purchased in advance at www.horseTRADE.info.

Dandy Darkly is back with an all-new, all-American selection of satiric, horrific, erotic, patriotic tales of sex and death! Join Dandy for his utterly unique take on contentment, guns, hypersensitivity and good ole American sodomy.

Stories will include: Silver Dollar - A disgraced American sniper, Otis Moonshine, struggles with PTSD as he hunts his hometown's homosexuals because only he knows the startling truth -- they are werewolves! Final Girl - America's Sweetheart was found dead in her Hollywood mansion, but from low budget slashers to reality TV terrors, America's actual horrors are so much scarier than anything seen on the big screen. American Apparel - Corporate cancer creeps across our safest spaces. Seemingly overnight another gay bar is gentrified. Can a little rat with drag queen dreams save the Imperial Poppycock Saloon from certain doom? The Ghosts of Stonewall - A rallying cry to the next LGBTQ generation to snap the fuck out of it!

Dandy Darkly's Trigger Happy! is written and performed by Dandy Darkly. The show is directed by Ian Bjorklund and features a pre-recorded soundtrack composed and performed by musicians Adam Tendler (piano), Rachel Blumberg (drums) Bryce Edwards (bass) and Jeffrey Underhill (guitar). Dandy Darkly's Trigger Happy!was produced, in part, with funding from Bindlestiff Family Arts Inc. and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

DANDY DARKLY is the critically acclaimed cabaret satirist at the forefront of a storytelling revolution sweeping New York City. "Fantastical fairytale horror, equal parts Tennessee Williams, Edgar Allen Poe and Bruce La Bruce." (Time Out) "Imagine a cross between Pam Ayres, Liberace and Tales from the Crypt - and you're on the way to picturing Dandy Darkly." (The Scotsman) "Dandy Darkly is one of my favorite performers. An artist who doesn't pander to the comfort zone of the public." (Penny Arcade) This "prodigiously loquacious Southern drag clown" is the ghoulish, glamorous new face of downtown alternative cabaret. Past shows produced locally and internationally include: Dandy Darkly's Pussy Panic! (Edinburgh Festival Fringe, FRIGID Festival, New Orleans Fringe, COW Theater), Dandy Darkly's Gory Hole!(Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Dixon Place), Dandy Darkly's Kiss Beneath the Camel Toe! (Cow Theater), Dandy Darkly's Easter Blister (Dixon Place) and Dandy Darkly's Poppycock Peep Show (The Slipper Room). Dandy is the winner of the 2015 Fan Favorite Award (FRIGID New York Festival) and in May 2015, his show Trigger Happy! was awarded the 2015 Bindlestiff First of May Award by the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus -- a highly competitive, New York based arts grant for cabaret or circus artists developing a new work.