Horse Trade Theater Closes FRIGID Hangovers, 3/13

Horse Trade Theater Group is pleased to present the first annual FRIGID Hangovers, March 9-13 at The Kraine Theater. We're bringing back the best and the brightest shows from this year's festival for one night only performances. Here's your second chance to catch Kill the Band, The Bike Trip, Four Quarters, Ramblings of a Gentleman Scumbag, No Traveler, Vodka Shoes, Legs and All, Medea, Bonne Nuit Poo Poo, and IT OR HER.

FRIGID Hangovers will run March 9-13 at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Ave and Bowery). Tickets to all shows ($7-16) may be purchased online at www.FRIGIDnewyork.info or by calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444.

Audience Choice Award Winner
Kill the Band
Kelly Dwyer Brooklyn, NY
Kill the Band is the original, comedy rock and roll, anti-cabaret! Coinciding with the release of their first album, this unpredictable, unforgettable, outrageously funny musical experience is both the band's breakdown and breakthrough. Part Lucille Ball on her 3rd bottle of 5 Hour Power, part Meatloaf, sexy with a side of silly.
Tuesday, March 9 @ 7pm

"Outrageous, infection and raucous. On a scale of 1 to 10, this group goes to 11."
Karen Tortora-Lee, The Happiest Medium

The Bike Trip
Martin Dockery Brooklyn, NY
In a breathtaking quest to uncover the nature of the psychedelic experience, a man journeys through San Francisco, India, and Switzerland, tapping into history's very first acid trip by, amongst other things, renting a bike.
Tuesday, March 9 @ 8:30pm

"Dockery's gifts as a storyteller border on the supernatural... Dockery's power as a performer is such that he is the experience. He will make you trip." Danny Bowes, nytheatre.com

Top Grossing Show Award Winner
Four Quarters
Agony Productions Brooklyn, NY
An innovative play in which two adults discover a love for their inner halves while searching for their other halves. Two adults. Four Quarters. Working, pushing and struggling to connect, trying to be one whole.
Thursday, March 11 @ 7pm

"It's extraordinarily refreshing to see a play that moves beyond traditional representations of sexuality, and Four Quarters does so in a way I have never seen." Dan Dinero, Theatre is Easy

Imperial Favorite Award Winner
Ramblings of a Gentleman Scumbag
(a) muse Collective New York, NY
Lucky Cheng's Balloon man, delusional comic, and man of no God tries to justify 34 years of poor life choices and degeneracy.
Thursday, March 11 @ 8:30pm

"There are moments in Ramblings that are quite moving...I was always interested in what he was going to say, or do, or-in some cases-create with balloons next." J. Jordan, nytheatre.com

No Traveler
(a) muse Collective New York, NY
In a narcissistic attempt to win her family's attention, Abigail decides to perform the greatest stunt of all- attempted suicide. When her childish venture turns into unexpected reality, Abigail finds herself trapped in purgatory - a warped version of her apartment with two exits. Heaven or Hell. As a result of her foolish mistake, there is atonement and penance to be paid... and time is running out.
Thursday, March 11 @ 10pm

"No Traveler is probably one of the best produced one-woman-shows I have ever seen."
Karen Tortora-Lee, The Happiest Medium

Vodka Shoes
Leslie Goshko Brooklyn, NY
Rather than abuse her, Leslie's alcoholic father would buy her shoes, drag race the lawnmower, and burn the neighbor's bills, while her mother managed a doomed Christian bookstore and prayed in tongues over Leslie's ailing sister. Leslie's storytelling navigates a humorously tragic journey through childhood with frighteningly endearing characters.
Friday, March 12 @ 7pm

"An astounding performance with razor-sharp humor and unabashed bravery."
Amanda Halkiotis, New Theatre Corps

Festival Favorite Award Winner
Legs and All
Summer Shapiro & Peter Musante Brooklyn, NY
A physical exploration of limits, perspective and chocolate cake. Rooted in physical comedy and set to music, it takes a magical look at the mundane where two people stumble into the extraordinary. Limbs shoot out from a box and lamps repel us into other worlds. It peeks at human loneliness and hits up against reality's glass ceiling to poke about in the breathing space beyond.
Friday, March 12 @ 8:30pm

"A relentlessly charming, overwhelmingly beautiful piece of art." Aaron Riccio, That Sounds Cool

Medea
No.11 Productions Long Island City, NY
Medea, suddenly abandoned by her husband Jason, plots her bloody revenge. A beautiful and heartbreaking staging of Euripides' 2, 400-year-old play about love, broken expectations, passion, violence and what happens when we want too much. An original score and puppetry add an artistic twist to this vibrant translation.
Saturday, March 13 @ 5:30pm

"No. 11 Productions' new revival does the play justice by capturing the drama of the story and making it feel vibrant and new." Lucy Butcher, Show Business Weekly

Bonne Nuit Poo Poo
Theatre Reverb Brooklyn, NY
Max, Maxi and the Operator fight for their survival in this action-packed comic-erotic end times fantasy featuring live video stream, text, dance and spectacle.
Saturday, March 13 @ 7pm

"Their brand of strange stream-of-consciousness comedy is like no other... Bonne Nuit Poo Poo is fringe theater at its very best...the direction I hope theatre is headed." Richard Hinojosa, nytheatre.com

Audience Choice Award Winner
IT OR HER
Alena Smith Brooklyn, NY
In the basement of a suburban house hides a man and his incredible collection of figurines. Like a mad scientist he plays with his objects, searching for what he calls "the ultimate arrangement" - hoping to find it before his hideout is invaded, and his own dark secret is revealed.
Saturday, March 13 @ 8:30pm

"McManamon's physicality was genius. He completely took control of the stage. I found myself amazed, over and over." Diánna Martin, The Happiest Medium

The FRIGID New York Festival was founded by Horse Trade and EXIT Theatre in 2007. Since founding The San Francisco Fringe Festival - the 2nd oldest fringe in the United States - nearly 17 years ago, EXIT has learned a thing or two about festival running. They introduced Horse Trade to the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals (CAFF) in mid-2006. Besides feedback from dozens of thrilled CAFF participants and artists, Horse Trade was drawn to its main principle: "...to provide all artists, emerging and established, with the opportunity to produce their play no matter the content, form or style and to make the event as affordable and accessible as possible for the members of the community," Horse Trade is proud to sign on to the tradition and chill out the New York independent theater scene's ideas of what a theatre festival can be. In true support of theatre on the fringe of the mainstream, the artists take home 100% of their box office, and the festival producers do not receive royalties from future performances. The festival's producers are proud to support self-Producing Artists' growth and future success. New York City is an indisputable hotbed of groundbreaking talent and we're proud to once again invite artists to take advantage of this opportunity to let their ingenuity thrive in a venue that values freedom of expression and artistic determination.