FRIGID NY Extends MENDACITY Thru March 11

FRIGID New York Announces MENDACITY IS EXTENDED! Multi-media solo show gets additional performance at "FRIGID Hangovers" *Friday, March 11th @ 8:30pm*

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Thursday, February 24th @ 9:00pm
Saturday, February 26th @ 8:30pm
Monday, February 28th @ 9:00pm
Thursday, March 3rd @ 6:00pm
Saturday, March 5th @ 5:30pm
Friday, March 11th @ 8:30pm - JUST ADDED!

Tickets $15, Students $10

To purchase, www.SmartTix.com or 212.868.4444

Direct link to tickets: http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=MEN8

THE KRAINE THEATER
85 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003

The producers of MENDACITY are pleased to announce the play has been extended for an additional performance to be held during the second annual FRIGID Hangovers, when the festival brings back the best and brightest shows for a one night only performance. Solo-performed by "an iron-lunged Ali Kresch" (Village Voice), MENDACITY will have three more performances on March 3rd at 6pm, March 5th at 5:30pm and the newly added March 11th at 8:30pm at The Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street in New York City.

During a February 22nd feature in The Huffington Post, columnist Jill Di Donato investigated the creation of the production and heralds MENDACITY'S "compassion, passion, vulnerability, openness and intensity." www.huffingtonpost.com

Ashley Steed of LA Stage Times calls MENDACITY "a kaleidoscope of vibrant voices with reflections constantly revolving and morphing around the issue of sexual assault. For someone to take something so personal and heartbreaking and transform it into something so transcendent and gut-wrenchingly honest is magnificent, awe-inspiring and inspirational."

MENDACITY brings together a team of 15 creative collaborators and integrates dynamic multi-media techniques, including mind-blowing video projections by Jay Kilachand, an original soundscape designed by Jake Hull (of the band Momentary Prophets) with gestural choreography by Shiloh Goodin and a vibrant lighting design by Tony Lepore. The piece is performed by Ali Kresch.

"Ali Kresch has a stripped-down simplicity that effectively reveals vulnerability"
"Her performance really connects and crackles with energy"
"rhythmic ... visceral ... emotionally charged"
"Mendacity has enormous value as a conversation-starter"
-Loren Noveck, NYTheatre.com

Written and directed by Lauren Rayner, MENDACITY takes you deep inside the mind of a splintering personality, peppered with dark humor and wrought with self-loathing and denial over sexual assault. Join us in a rebellious journey of fragmented transcendence and the offering of hope.

According to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), about 80% of rape cases in the United States are women aged 24 and under, and that statistic becomes even more staggering when we realize that most sexual assaults of young women go unreported out of fear, disgust, shame, and denial. This is strictly a not-for-profit production. Box office proceeds will directly benefit RAINN.

Running Time = 50 minutes

www.laurenrayner.com/mendacity
www.frigidnewyork.info

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