Cross-Eyed Bear Productions Presents Pflaster's 'Prince'

CROSS-EYED BEAR PRODUCTIONS is pleased to announce the world premiere production of PRINCE TREVOR AMONGST THE ELEPHANTS, directed by Duncan Pflaster. PRINCE TREVOR AMONGST THE ELEPHANTS will play a limited engagement as part of the Midtown International Theater Festival at the June Havoc Theater (312 West 36th Street). Performances begin Wednesday, July 16th.

Prince Trevor is a satire of Contemporary Politics, reflected in the Magic Mirror of Fairy Tales injected with 42 ccs of Shakespearean Verse, and dissected through the Ridiculous Theatrical style of Charles Ludlam.

When good King Kartoffelpuffen gives up his kingdom to his oldest son Tater and marries off his other children for peace (and for political gain), Prince Trevor, his youngest son, trades places with his manservant Grumbelino in order to escape his fate and find his true love, Toby the stable boy. Meanwhile, will Princess Lana find love with King Soignée of the Blind Sybarites, or will she continue pining for Geoffrey, her lost love? Will Grumbelino make friends with his new wife Queen Bluebella of Chryselephantinople and her harem of eunuchs, or will he foolishly poke his nose into the Forbidden Ballroom? Can anyone keep King Tater from starting a new war and destroying all their Kingdoms? Are the rumored Elephants of Style more than just a fable? Find out in Prince Trevor Amongst the Elephants!

(Warning: the show contains nudity, sexual situations, foul language, and iambic pentameter- may not be suitable for all audiences)

Costume design by David Withrow, and sound engineer is Adam Rabin, who is also composing original music for the production.

PRINCE TREVOR plays the following schedule:

Wednesday, July 16th at 9:00pm
Saturday, July 19th at 6:15pm
Tuesday, July 22nd at 6:30pm
Friday, July 25th at 9:30pm
Monday, July 28th at 8:30pm
Saturday, August 2nd at 9:30pm

Tickets are $18

Tickets are now available online at www.TicketCentral.com or by calling 212-279-4200. Tickets may also be purchased in-person at the Ticket Central Box Office, (416 W 42nd St.) 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. daily.

For more information and photos visit the Prince Trevor Website: http://www.duncanpflaster.com/trevor.php

For more information on the Midtown International Theater Festival visit the festival's website: www.midtownfestival.org

DUNCAN PFLASTER (Playwright & Director) is the author of several plays, most recently Admit Impediments, a musical about marriage: Gay, Straight, and Opportunistic, that premiered last year as part of the MITF's first "Next Step Series".

He has won the Spotlight On award for "Best New Play" 2 years running, for the existential comedy Eternity: Time Without End, (which also won "Best Actress" (Clara Barton Green), Best Supporting Actor (Jason Specland) and Best Featured Actor (Joe Fanelli)) in 2005, and for the Big Epic Naked Shakespearean Fairy Tale Play Prince Trevor Amongst the Elephants in 2006, which is having it's full premiere this year in the Midtown International Theatre Festival.

Other plays include The Thyme of the Season (a sequel to Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"), the critically acclaimed Gay love story The Wastes of Time in the 2006 Midtown International Theater Festival, the comedic science-fiction Lesbian drama Dik and Jayne Are Not The Same, the parallel universe cocktail party comedy Sleeping in Tomorrow, the comic Greek tragedy Amazing Daedalus, the pansexual soap opera musical Eskimo (Book & lyrics- music by Adam Rabin of the band Mailbox), and the drag queen Alice In Wonderland adaptation Wilder & Wilder.

He is part of the EMG Playwrights Group, and is listed on Doollee.com, as well as Wikipedia.

He has directed productions of As You Like It (Holla Holla Productions), Aria Da Capo (Debaun Center for the Performing Arts), What the Butler Saw (Florida Playwrights' Theatre- co-director), and others, including the first productions of many of his own plays.

CROSS-EYED BEAR PRODUCTIONS is a theatre company dedicated to the idea that Theatre should be entertaining, thought provoking, and most importantly, fun. To this end, we produce original scripts and new takes on classics. We believe that if we have fun doing a play that we enjoy, our audiences will enjoy it and have fun as well. We believe that "play" is an essential part of theatre; that children playing "Let's pretend" have more in common with the core of true theatre than most shows currently on Broadway; that emotional depth is more important than technical wizardry.

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