Three Day Hangover Stages New Version of TARTUFFE, Starting Tonight at New Home

THREE DAY HANGOVER -- the acclaimed interactive theater company -- move into their own venue this fall for another new production filled with drinking, drama and fun. After staging several acclaimed shows in bars across the city, they present TARTUFFE in their new home, McAlpin Hall at The West Park Presbyterian Church on 86th and Amsterdam. This brand new adaptation of Moliere's classic farce TARTUFFE, directed by Beth Gardiner, will be performed tonight, November 4 to November 21.

TARTUFFE -- Sex, drugs, shaking hands and kissing babies. Three Day Hangover is jumping into politics and the candidate to watch is this November is Tartuffe. We're re-imagining Moliere's searing comedy of hypocrites and heathens for our modern age and there's no better setting for farce and hilarity than a U.S. Senate race. Coming at you from the left and the right, this fast-paced romp will be anything but politically correct as it presses the flesh and proposes a toast to politics as unusual in America. Casting will be announced.

THREE DAY HANGOVER is a New York City theater company that produces fresh, unexpected, immersive, joyful productions of classic plays in unique locations. We meet our audiences on their turf, telling great stories and celebrating some of the most beautiful language in the world. We want our audiences to have a beer and relax, then we want them to lean forward and get swept up in the story in a way they've never seen before. Past productions of The HAMLET Project: Summer in the City, R+J: Star-Cross'd Death Match, Twelfth Night or, Sir Toby Belch's Lonely Hearts Club Cabaret, Drunkle Vanya, and Hank V enjoyed rave reviews, sold out runs and extensions and, most importantly, some of the feistiest, most engaged and raucous audiences New York City has ever seen. Last year, the company was commissioned to create the hit show, Drunk Shakespeare, which is currently running off-Broadway at The Lounge at Roy Arias Stages.

JAKE BRANDMAN (Adapter for TARTUFFE) is a playwright, lyricist and bookwriter whose work has been performed at venues ranging from Joe's Pub to the Laurie Beechman Theater to the Library at Lincoln Center. His recent plays include The Bushwickers: A Play About Superheroes and Wrestleparty '82, or Who Is Boris Sicklehammer? He is a double-graduate of Tisch School of the Arts, where he received a BFA in Dramatic Writing and an MFA in Musical Theater Writing.

BETH GARDINER (Director for TARTUFFE) is a co-founder of Three Day Hangover. She directed The HAMLET Project: Summer in the City, adapted and directed Twelfth Night or, Sir Toby Belch's Lonely Hearts Club Cabaret and co-adapted and directed Hank V with them. She's also an Artistic Company member at Burning Coal Theatre in Raleigh, North Carolina where she directed the world premiere of The Jesus Fund. She has worked as a director, assistant director and dramaturg with companies all over the country, including Utah Shakespeare, South Coast Rep, Santa Rosa Summer Rep, Milwaukee Rep, Milwaukee Shakespeare and the Atlantic Theater Company/NYU acting school. She holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and an M.F.A. from UC, Irvine.

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