HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP PRESENTS A DYSFUNCTIONAL THEATRE COMPANY
PRODUCTION OF A VOLUMINOUS EVENING OF BREVITY
Featuring works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, WB Yeats, Edna St. Vincent Millay, & Susan Glaspell
MARCH 22-31 @ THE RED ROOM
A VOLUMINOUS EVENING OF BREVITY is an evening of short plays both comic and tragic dating to the beginning of the 20th Century. Dysfunctional Theatre Classics’ mission is to produce underperformed scripts from the previous centuries or to give a new take on “classic†plays of past centuries. All of these works are still considered Dysfunctional; the idea is to encourage the audience to perceive them in a new light and to realize that dysfunction isn’t a product of 21st or even 20th century life; it’s a product of the human condition.
Porcelain & Pink
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Directed by Justin Plowman
Beautiful girls, mistaken identities and hijinks centering around a very long bath.
Purgatory
Written by WB Yeats
Directed by Peter Schuyler
A troubled father and his son return to the barren site of the father’s youth.
Two Slatterns and a King
Written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Directed by Rob Brown
A storybook king sets out to marry the tidiest woman in the land. But Chance intervenes…
Trifles
Written by Susan Glaspell
Directed by Amy Overman
Directed by Amy Overman
In a quiet, desolate farmhouse, someone murdered John Wright as he slept. That someone might have been his wife. But why?
The production, presented by Horse Trade Theater Group and Dysfunctional Theatre Company, will play at The Red Room (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Ave and Bowery) March 22-31, Monday through Wednesday at 8pm. Tickets ($15) are available by calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444 or online at www.horseTRADE.info
DYSFUNCTIONAL THEATRE COMPANY Founded in 1997 Dysfunctional is dedicated to challenging the status quo without taking itself too seriously. Recent productions include The 8: Reindeer Monologues, Arsenic & Old Lace, The Dysfunctional Guide to Home Perfection Marital Bliss & Passionate Hot Romance (winner of the FRIGID 2009 Audience Choice & Sold Out Show Awards), Brew of the Dead (by Patrick Storck) Chosen (written & directed by Rick Vorndran; winner of the 2008 FRIGID Sold Out Show Award), and Hoover: A Love Story (by Paul Wells).
“Eclectic, quintessentially off-off-Broadway†Martin Denton, nytheatre.com
“A company dedicated to irreverent ensemble material†Li Cornfeld, Off Off Online
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.
“…arguably the epicenter of the independent theater world in New York.” Leonard Jacobs
“If it’s fun, funky, artsy, absurd and original, chances are it’s probably from the folks at Horse Trade Theater.†The Villager
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