Horse Trade Theater Group Announces Fall 2009/2010 Season

HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP FALL 2009/2010 SEASON

ARDOR DOODY & BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN
Presented by Subjective Theater Company
September 8-12, Tuesday-Saturday @ 8pm FREE
The Red Room (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Ave & Bowery)
Ardor Doody: In a cold prison cell, in an anonymous totalitarian country, two political prisoners debate guilt versus innocence, happiness versus productivity, honesty versus betrayal, art versus duty...while wearing big clown shoes and rubber noses. Ardor Doody is a satirical comedy about two circus clowns and one mime fighting the government the only way they know how - but which one will have the last laugh?
Big Rock Candy Mountain: A hedge fund manager and his wife ride the rails in search of jobs, in a magical-realist world inspired by the classic song "In the Big Rock Candy Mountains." Cushioned from any real hardship by their wealth, they lament their fate while trying to avoid being interrogated the ineffectual and fawning SEC. A biting musical satire about the disproportionate emphasis on helping those who got us into this mess in the first place.

MILKMILKLEMONADE
Presented by The Management
September 10-26 Thursday-Saturday @ 8pm
UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place between 1st Ave & Ave A)
Milk Milk Lemonade is a play about gay children, a parasitic twin, an antagonistic grandmother, a depressed chicken, and our growing bodies. Bring the kids!

THE DARK HEART OF METEROLOGY
Presented by The Assembly
September 22-October 14, Tuesdays & Wednesdays @ 7pm
UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place between 1st & A)
The Dark Heart of Meteorology is a series of barely-multimedia presentations-part lecture/slideshow, part happening-by lonely traveling weatherman Franklin Elijah White. Developed by New York-based ensemble The Assembly, Dark Heart is a touching and provocative investigation of the intersection between the personal and the meteorological.

PUNKROCK/LOVESONG
With original music by Dan Beeman of Helmet
Presented by Horse Trade Theater Group & The Brick Theater, Inc.
September 30-October 3 @ 8pm
The Brick (575 Metropolitan Avenue between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street)
THE BAND: Navarre. THE PACT: no women, no food, no sleep. THE PROBLEM: the French King's daughter
Horse Trade Theater Group presents a play about punks (and those who love them) with original music by Dan Beeman of the influential, post-hardcore band HELMET. A cover of William Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Lost.

MUDDY THE WATER
Presented by The BE Company
October 1-10, Thursday-Saturday @ 8pm
The Red Room (85 E. 4th Street between 2nd & Bowery)
New Hope Baptist Church, a prominent, old-school church in Kansas City, is scandalized when one if its rising stars, Minister Mark Patterson, is captured by local police trying to elicit some not-so-spiritual services in a local park. When Mark suddenly disappears after being released, change comes with a quick vengeance to the members of the New Hope community who are about to see their secrets, denials, and phobias finally come crashing to the ground as Mark's double life is exposed.

THE HAUNTING: RETURN TO 85 EAST 4TH STREET $20
Presented by Radiotheatre
October 11, 18 & 31, November 1, 8, & 22, December 5, 12, 19, & 26 @ 3pm
The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Ave & Bowery)
In 2006, Horse Trade presented Radiotheatre in The Haunting of 85 East 4th Street to unanimous critical acclaim, sold out shows, and it was nominated for NY Innovative Theater Awards ‘Best Performance' and ‘Best Sound Design'. Now, in a completely different, fully staged presentation utilizing a revolutionary audio technology, they continue to examine the strange history of this location, as, The Amazing Carter, Communicator To The Great Beyond, returns to The Kraine Theatre to resurrect the evil within accompanied by award winning sound design and original orchestral score as never before heard on the live stage anywhere on Earth!

THE PUMPKIN PIE SHOW
Written by Clay McLeod Chapman
October 15-31, Thursday-Saturday @ 8pm
UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place between 1st Ave & Ave A)
A literary fist in the face. Part monologue, part boxing match - The Pumpkin Pie Show is a rigorous storytelling session packed with enough intensity to feel like a rock concert rather than a bedtime tale. Filled with tales of the bizarre, dark, and perverted, The Pumpkin Pie Show is bedtime stories for adults

BAIL OUT: THE MUSICAL
Presented by Wreckio Ensemble
December 10-19, Thurs-Sat @ 8pm,
UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place between 2nd Ave & Bowery)
The federal government is bailing out American Theatre. But, if you want a slice of Uncle Sam's pie you have to take a stab at making a musical! In this hilarious new play a downtown performance artist, an ingénue from Kentucky, a flat chested burlesque dancer and Archie band together to write, rehearse and perform a musical in 48 hours. Will this random group of theatrical misfits receive the funding? Watch this absurd comedy about how far people are willing to go to cash in on the opportunity of a lifetime.

8 REINDEER MONOLOGUES
Presented by Dysfunctional Theatre Company
December 9, 10 & 17 @ 8pm, December 11, 12, 18 & 19 @ 8pm & 10:30pm
The Red Room (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Ave & Bowery)
Sex, Lies & Santa - the Reindeer Spill All! Dysfunctional Theatre's 4th annual production continues its inventive re-imagining of Jeff Goode's modern Christmas classic. Santa's reindeer gather at their private North Pole watering hole, and as the booze flows, the scandal grows. Alternately hilarious & disturbing, nothing is held sacred as the reindeer expose all of Santa's (& their own) indiscretions. A Christmas story for consenting adults only...

SCROOGE & MARLEY
Presented by Barefoot Theater Company
December 10-19, Thursday-Saturday @ 8pm, December 22-24 @ 8pm & December 13 & 20 @ 3pm
The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Ave & Bowery)
In its 10th Anniversary Season The Barefoot Theatre Company continue with their 70/70 Horovitz Project (a year-long, worldwide festival celebrating Israel Horovitz's 70th Birthday with 70 of his plays) to present Horovitz's adaptation of A Christmas Carol: Scrooge & Marley. This version of the classic tale takes a dark Edward Gorey and Tim Burton esque look at the infamous ghost story that becomes the celebration of Christmas cheer!

Tickets to all shows are $18, $15 students & seniors (unless otherwise noted) and are available by calling SmartTix at 212-868-4444 or by visiting www.horseTRADE.info

Horse Trade Theater Group also has a variety of monthly shows happening at UNDER St. Marks throughout the fall including Revealed Burlesque, Sci-Fi Screening Room, Sundays With Poe, The Matt Fried Hour, Told, God Tastes Like Chicken, and Penny's Open Mike. Visit www.horseTRADE.info for scheduling info.

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.

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