Horse Trade Theater Group Presents Martin Dockery's Oh, You Wily Snake! 1/26-2/10

Following years of performing theatrical monologues all across The U.S., Canada, & Australia (Wanderlust, The Bike Trip, The Surprise, andThe Holy Land Experience), Martin Dockery brings his award-winning two-person play home to New York City, the last stop on an eight-city tour across North America. As the story of a man trying to get a woman into his flying bed, Oh, That Wily Snake! appears, at first, to be a surreal comedy. But as the fantastical adventure unfolds, the battle between temptation and fidelity turns ever more serious, climaxing in a moment that resonates from the very beginning of time. 

 

The production, presented by Horse Trade Theater Group, will run January 26-February 10 at UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place between 1st Avenue and Avenue A), Thursday through Saturday at 8pm. Tickets ($18/$15 students & seniors) are available online atwww.horseTRADE.info or by calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444.  

 

MARTIN DOCKERY (Writer & Performer) is a frequent performer in New York’s storytelling scene. Over the past three years, he’s created five monologues and one play, performing them across North America and Australia. His four autobiographical, theatrical monologues Wanderlust,The Surprise, (both directed by Jean-Michele Gregory), The Bike Trip, The Holy Land Experience, and his newest fictional monologue, Bursting Into Flames, have enjoyed successful runs in New York City, San Francisco, Orlando, London, Toronto, Winnipeg, Fresno, Charleston, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Victoria, Vancouver, Bellingham, Seattle, New Orleans, Phoenix, & Adelaide (where he won the 2011 Critics Circle Award). He also headlined the 2011 London Storytelling Festival. In 2012, he will be performing Wanderlust in the Ottawa Fringe and The Melbourne Comedy Festival. He will be returning to Orlando, Vancouver, and Adelaide with Bursting Into Flames. He will be performing The Surprise in Winnipeg and The Holy Land Experience in the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC. In 2011, Martin performed Oh, That Wily Snake! with actress Vanessa Quesnelle in Fresno, Orlando, London, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton, and Vancouver. The play also appears in the McGraw-Hill anthology textbook Literature.

 

Adelaide Critics Circle Award –Adelaide Fringe Festival, Wanderlust; Hold-Over –Edmonton Fringe Festival, The Surprise; Best Drama –The CBC at The Winnipeg Fringe, Bursting Into Flames

 

Pick of the Fringe –Vancouver Fringe Festival, Wanderlust, Hold-Over –Edmonton Fringe Festival, Wanderlust, Entire run sold-out –Edmonton Fringe Festival, Wanderlust,

Entire run sold-out –Victoria Fringe Festival, Wanderlust, Multiple Sell Outs Award –Rogue Festival, Wanderlust, Best in Fest –Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg Fringe Festival, The Bike Trip, Best in Fest –Orlando Sentinel, Orlando Fringe Festival, The Bike Trip,

Held-Over –New York FRIGID Fest, The Bike Trip

 

Best Solo Performance –San Francisco Fringe Festival, The Surprise, Outstanding Solo Performer –Nominee New York Innovative Theater Awards, The Surprise, Outstanding Short Play –Nominee New York Innovative Theater Awards, The Surprise, Best of Fest –Winnipeg Fringe Festival, Wanderlust, Best Original Work –London Fringe Festival, Wanderlust,

Impresario Award –London Fringe Festival, Wanderlust, Sold Out Award –Orlando Fringe Festival, Wanderlust, Best in Venue –Orlando Fringe Festival, Wanderlust,

soloNOVA Breakthrough Performer–NY soloNOVA Festival, The Surprise,

Audience Choice Award –New York FRIGID Fest, The Surprise

 

VANESSA QUESNELLE (Performer) Her previous acting credits include Amy in Company (Fountainhead Productions), for which she was nominated for a Beat Dish Award for Best Supporting Actress, Nurse Wilson in 7 Stories (Passionfool Theatre), Pierrette in Les Belles Soeurs(Passionfool Theatre), Helena in Midsummer Night’s Dream (Passionfool Theatre), Suzanne in Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Theatre Woodstock), Margot Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank (Theatre Woodstock), for which she was awarded Best Supporting Actress at WODL Festival, Bottom in Midsummer Night’s Dream (CAST), Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie (QP Productions). Vanessa co-directed Play by Samuel Beckett and One for the Road by Harold Pinter (Passionfool Theatre). She has also worked as Stage Manager and Lighting Technician for numerous productions over the years. In 2011 she toured Oh, That Wily Snake! to festivals in Fresno, Orlando, London, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton, and Vancouver.

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.