Tweed Fractured Classicks Presents Summer & Tokes at Dixon Place HOT! Fest

The TWEED Fractured Classicks Series tops off The Hot Festival with a staged production of a fabulously fractured tale inspired by Tennessee William's classic Summer and Smoke. The story concerns a preacher's spinster daughter who falls for the tawdry boy next door. Emotions - and pill popping - run high. This 'send-up' will be interpreted by a dynamic cast including the sensational drag method actress Sweetie, burlesque superstar Bradford Scobie, Steve Hayes (Tired Old Queen at the Movies), Gina Vetro (PuPu Platter), David Ilku (This American Life),Colleen O'Neill (Dr Julia Wonder), raconteur extraordinaire Joseph Keckler, and new comers to the series, Judith Greentree andWes Urish. Directed by TWEED's Kevin Malony.

ABOUT TWEED TheaterWorks
TWEED TheaterWorks was founded by Kevin Malony in the early eighties and has grown from tiny late night shows in east village nightclubs to full scale productions at premier Manhattan venues. For two decades TWEED has produced some of the most innovative and unusual performance art, musical, experimental and progressive theater in New York. TWEED was the first off-off Broadway company to produce an annual festival of new works that encompassed all the performing arts. THE TWEED NEW WORKS FESTIVAL presented original works by emerging performing artists. Many of today's recognized theater artists, including Bill Russell, Lisa Kron, Mark Dendy, Len Jenkins, Jeffrey Jones, Peter Askin, Peggy Shaw, Lola Pashalinski and John (Lypsinka) Epperson appeared in festivals. An organization devoted to on-going artistic expression on a budget, TWEED has over the years diligently struggled to create a fertile ground for artists to present their work. TWEED maintains long term relationships with artists, many of who are not well known beyond their field, and consistently attempts to assist in the production of their work. THE TWEED FRACTURED CLASSICKS SERIES is an extremely popular underground series which presents staged readings of classic American plays and films featuring alternative, often cross gender, casting. The series has presented some of downtown's most astonishing performers - as well as some bona fide celebrities, in great works by great playwrights.

ABOUT DIXON PLACE
Dixon Place is a non-profit organization founded in 1986 to provide a space for literary and performing artists to create and develop new works in front of a live audience. While other venues of its kind have since died off, or now only present established artists, Dixon Place remains at the heart of the New York experimental performance scene. Taking risks is crucial to the life of Dixon Place, its artists and audiences.

Dixon Place's primary commitments are to bring artists and audiences together through live performance in order to expand the understanding of the creative process and its final product, and to provide a supportive environment for emerging artists to present new work. Over the last twenty-five years, Dixon Place has successfully maintained its intimate atmosphere and unique environment while increasing its programming to fulfill the need for performance opportunities for the New York community of performing and literary artists.

TICKET INFORMATION:
For reservations & advanced tickets visit www.dixonplace.org or call 212.219.0736

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