Horse Trade Theater Group presents Lone Wolf Tribe's Hobo Grunt Cycle

A war and peace meditation with life-sized puppets, colliding connections between wounded soldiers, illegal dog fighting and the hierarchies of circus performers and military personnel.

HOBO GRUNT CYCLE will feature Kevin Augustine, Adam Ende, Ora Fruchter, and Joshua Holden.

The creative team will include Props and Set Design by Gloria Sun, Lighting Design by Ayuma "Poe" Saegusa, Video Design by Raine Vivian, Sound Design by Aldo Perez & Miguel Weissman, and Costume Design by Ana Marie Salamat, Mandy Tam & Candida Nichols.

The production, presented by Horse Trade Theater Group and Lone Wolf Tribe will play a three-week engagement at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Ave and Bowery) April 7-24, Thursday through Saturday at 8pm. Tickets ($20/$16 students & seniors) are available online at www.horseTRADE.info or by calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444.

LONE WOLF TRIBE is a contemporary solo theatre ensemble blending history, sociology, psychology and puppetry into brutally poetic narratives for adults since 1997. Puppets inherently grab attention. Our productions are partnerships between puppet and performer in subject matter we feel deserves deeper attention, be it the history of religion; the plight of broken veterans or the desperation of laboratory animals; our work is challenging and darkly humorous as it explores the edges of theatrical style while pushing the boundaries of visual storytelling to try and sculpt a new dimension for live performance. LWT was awarded a UNIMA Citation for excellence in Puppet Theatre for Bride, an Overall Excellence Award for Solo Show for Big Top Machine at the 1999 New York International Fringe Festival, a Critics Choice Award at the 2000 San Francisco Fringe Festival for Ten, and Time Out NY named Bride one of the Top 10 Shows of 2008.

Praise for Lone Wolf Tribe's 2008 production of Bride at Performance Space 122:

"The puppet-master-as-deity conceit lies at the center of Kevin Augustine's astonishing Bride, in which he and 14 manipulators and musicians create an utterly bizarre and spellbinding fable...in the church of puppet artistry, Augustine is divine." David Cote, Time Out NY

"[A] brilliant and disturbing creation myth...penetrates straight to the viewer's subconscious... Bride occupies a dark alternative universe that suggests a kinship with filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet (The City of Lost Children) and surrealist animators the Brothers Quay." AJ Mell, Backstage

"That weird sort of wonderful that brings butterflies to the stomach and flashes of color to the eyes. Inventive, unique, and a superlative work of theater." Aaron Riccio, That Sounds Cool

"Utter genius...The images Augustine creates will haunt you for days. I don't know anybody who is doing theatre quite like this...Indisputably a work of theatre that demands to be experienced"
Martin Denton, nytheatre.com

"A work of great intensity and towering ambition...the subject is epic, the style poetic, the imagery is nightmarish...Augustine is an actor who mesmerizes the audience with rich, powerful, nuanced portrayals." Puppetry Journal

KEVIN AUGUSTINE (Writer/Director/Actor) is the Artistic director of Lone Wolf Tribe. Kevin acts in the plays he writes while animating the puppets he makes. Ordinary foam, hand carved for maximum expressiveness, transforms into living breathing creatures-strangely unsettling while at the same time extremely tender. He has toured internationally with the 6 full-length plays he has written for LWT and has received financial support from The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, The Jim Henson Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, The New York State Council on the Arts, The Brooklyn Arts Council, The Puffin Foundation, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Axe Houghton Foundation and Puppeteers of America. He is currently working on his solo show about the taboo disappointments of parents of mentally challenged children and the connection between modern day office massacres and historical slave rebellions.

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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