GO-GO KILLER Plays At The Sage Theater 5/8-5/30

GO-GO KILLERS: SUCKER PUNCH will feature a preview performance by the cast of the retro-futuristic, ass-kicking new play, Go-Go Killers, written by Sean Gill and Directed & Choreographed by Rachel Klein, playing at The Sage Theater (711 Seventh Avenue, 2nd floor), May 8-30.
Actors featured in this special performance will include Elizabeth Stewart, Kari Warchock, Jillaine Gill, Reagan Wilson, Leasen Almquist, Dana Perry, Dasha Kittredge, Megan O'Connor, Robyn Nielsen, Michael Porsche, and B-Movie Star, Kevin G. Shinnick!

GO-GO KILLERS: SUCKER PUNCH will also include a sultry burlesque performance by Sapphire Jones, 60's go-go tunes from DJ Michael Stewart, clips from the upcoming play on the screen, and plenty of sexy and dangerous Go-Go Dancers!

GO-GO KILLERS: SUCKER PUNCH will be on Thursday, March 12, 7pm at Beauty Bar (144 E. 14th Street) Admission is $10. All proceeds will help fund the May 2009 production of Go-Go Killers.
Go-Go Killers! is a campy, stylized, choreographic, retro-futuristic play that depicts the New York metropolitan area ten years hence, imagining the potentially horrific outcomes of both the current economic crisis and the global warming debacle. By "2019," the gulf between rich and poor has been so widened that anything approximating the middle class ceases to exist. Hordes of stylishly violent women, comprised of go-go dancing gang debs, roam America's underbelly with the intent to kidnap or kill each member of a list of the nation's wealthiest citizens. Go-Go Killers! is at once a frivolous 60's B-movie jaunt and a horrifically foreboding vision of the future. As a hybrid of these seemingly disparate elements, Go-Go Killers! is free to take either end of this spectrum well beyond the limits of tradition: to combine the gothic theatricality of Eugene O'Neill with the cinematic girlsploitation of Russ Meyer. Pulp entertainment takes the stage by a dancing storm!

Sean Gill (Playwright) is a playwright, filmmaker, and musician who has written over twenty plays including "Stage Blood is Not Enough," "Our Prison," "Handsome," and "Bad Boys," and has directed over twenty-five feature and short films including "Low Lives," "Thursday Night," "Sleepy-time Time," "Chinese Pop!", "Regrets of a Rainy Traveler," "Laughter is the Music of the Gods," "Whiskey Sippen Dee-lites," "Go Harlem," "Chewies 4," and "Crescendo" (which have been in festivals as diverse as the Brooklyn DV Film Festival to the Trenton International Film Festival to the Ohio Independent Film Festival to a retrospective of his work held by Oberlin College). Gill, who holds twin BAs from Oberlin College (in Film and History) and works as a sequence editor for several television shows on the A&E network, has recently finished a filmic adaptation with director Rachel Klein of her play "La Enferma," and has several film and theatrical projects in the pipeline including the horror documentary "Mather Point," the disaster film "Stormnado," a play inspired by the works of Russ Meyer, and the secretive escapade, "Highly Confidential."

Rachel Klein (Director, Choreographer) has trained in various theater and movement techniques including ballet, pantomine, and circus arts. Klein has developed a live-action-music video aesthetic and the majority of her work is set in a style of hyper-theatricality. Recent works include All Kinds of Shifty Villains, a play that explored the merging of theatrical, slapstick, and Film Noir genres, La Enferma, an on going series of El Dia De Los Muertos inspired movement pieces, Something Weird... in the Red Room, a grindhouse style double feature of horror plays: Aenigma and Sir Sheever, Metro, an acrobat, dance, and clown show about people's inner thoughts while riding a subway, The Canterville Ghost, a movement play that she adapted from the Oscar Wilde short story, and a Commedia dell'Arte production of Aristophanes' The Frogs in Central Park. Rachel is 2007 alumni of the International Directors Symposium with La MaMa in Spoleto, Italy and is an Associate Member of the SSDC. www.RachelKleinProductions.com

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