Feed the Herd Theatre Company presents
Stampede
with new works by FTH and invited guests
August 2nd-31st, 2002
It's August and once again the second annual micro-fest known as the
Stampede is happening at the Trilogy Theatre. Sponsored by Feed the Herd
Theatre Company, the entire month is filled with new plays, acts, bands,
parties, much of which happens as fast as it can gidday-up.
Click on a title in the list below or scroll down to read more about the shows in this year's Stampede micro-fest.
Wednesday, August 21 and 28 at 8pm ($15)
Last Night in New York, Black Chat
Thursday, August 22 and August 29 at 8pm ($12):
Katie, I Dreamed of Dogs, Prints aka Dismember
Friday, August 23 and August 30 at 8pm ($15):
Katie, Prints aka Dismember, Lone Drifter, Nine
Saturday, August 24 and August 31 at 8pm ($15):
Katie, Prints aka Dismember, I Dreamed of Dogs, Nine
Saturday, August 24 August 31 at 10pm ($15):
Last Night in New York, Black Chat
Plus, a free reading of La Gringita, a new play by Kate Bell, will be held Tuesday at 7pm.
And don't miss the party with the full-on horn section of Country Club and the Porn Horns, Friday, August 30... the party starts immediately following the shows that night (around 10/10:30) and the band plans to go on at 11pm.
From the bizarre psyche of writer Jenn Rumbach comes:
NINE (Not the Musical)
produced by Feed the Herd Theatre Company
"It's like holding a bullhorn to the part of the brain devoted to
daydreams."
Directed by: Erin Brindley
Starring: Sarah Peterson, Peter Morr, Michael "Donk" Weiss, Neil Magnuson,
Kate Hess, David Hatkoff, Joe Beaudin, Erin Brindley, and Jenn Rumbach
Original Choreography by: Katherine Jaeger
Thursday-Saturday, Aug. 8-10, 8PM,
Sunday, Aug. 11th, 2PM
Friday & Saturday, Aug. 23rd & 24th, 30th & 31st, 8PM
Tickets are $15 for any bill.
See the full schedule for bill information.
I DREAMED OF DOGS
produced by Feed the Herd Theatre Company
Eric Michael Kochmer presents his one-man short, about which he says "for three long weeks i shivered at the sight of meat......then i wrote this piece."
Thursday and Saturday, Aug. 8-10, Aug. 22-24, Aug. 28-31, 8PM
Tickets are $12/$15 Thursday/Saturday
See the full schedule for bill information.
PRINTS (Dismember)
a sci-fi thriller comedy by Matt Hanley
directed by Emanuel Bocchieri
Thurs-Sat at 8pm August 22-31
LAST NIGHT IN NEW YORK
written and performed by Wednesday Kennedy
Wed. @ 8pm and Sat. @ 10pm Aug. 21, 24, 28, 31
Wednesday Kennedy, Australian poet, journalist, broadcaster and spoken-word artist, returns to America with "Last Night in New York," a one-woman multimedia show that brings to life New York City in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11.
Read more about "Last Night in New York"
BLACK CHAT
music written and performed by Mike Weiss
Wed. @ 8pm and Sat. @ 10pm Aug. 21, 24, 28, 31
smoking. drinking. singing. dancing.
SENSATION
presented by NY Play Development
a new comedy by Philip Hopkins
Directed by Bradley Campbell
Thursday, August 15 - Saturday, August 17, 2002 @ 8 pm
$12, RESERVE @ 917.734.8198
A stunning TriBeCa loft. A Party. The late Nineties.
An actress playing a few too many roles,
A construction worker out of his depth,
A gossip columnist with a crisis of conscience,
A billionaire risking more than his career...
What happens when four people who should never have met suddenly collide?
"What's the matter, cash got your tongue?"
Synopsis: Steven Jasper is an American archetype, a real estate tycoon selling glitz and glamour at the expense of taste and integrity. Reevaluating after a painful divorce, Steven takes an interest in Jessica, a culture writer whose criticism of his work he finds challenging. An ambitious writer with a agenda of social causes beyond the latest society ball, Jessica resists uniting her personal life with those of the prominent set she writes about. She is similarly passionate about her longtime boyfriend Tom, a self-taught sculptor with a day job in construction, an unlikely match for her who grounds them both with his sincerity and humor.
But Jessica's lifestyle makes Tom uneasy. He's left cooling his heels in a bar for hours one night while Jessica conducts a late-night interview with Steven, and Tom succumbs to his darker impulses after edgy, sexy Erika serves him a few more than his limit. In a city where a waitress at one gala benefit might be on the guest list at the next, a good story in the paper makes or breaks a reputation, and even experts can't tell art from commerce, you don't have to be famous --yet-- to cause a Sensation.
"A promising writer whose mark is being made as we watch."
— Bob Jude Ferrante, Managing Director, New York Play Development Workshop
More info on SENSATION
KATIE
by Nichol Alexander, directed by José Armando
Thursday-Saturday at 8pm, August 22-31
LONE DRIFTER
written and performed by Kevin Maher
Friday August 23 and August 31 at 8pm
Q: What do you do when your sketch group moves to L.A.?
A: Drink, dream and do a one-man show.
Kevin Maher stomps around the stage in LONE DRIFTER, his critically acclaimed "one-man sketch show." More than just monologues, it's a pride parade of deadbeats, shut-ins and swillbellys.
"You know you're watching good character based comedy when the laughs outnumber the jokes."
Critic's comedy pick, Time Out New York, May 2002
"Awe-inspiring... like something out of Ernie Kovacs."
NYTheater.com
"Kevin Maher is a shining example of truly independent humor and spirit.
Not only that, but he's actually funny."
Lloyd Kaufman, president Troma Entertainment and creator of the Toxic Avenger
Feed the Herd
Theatre Company was formed in late 1997. Their
mission this season is to define the dimensions of
perspective and how the medium of theatre can shift
perspectives in character, story, and point-of-view.
Past productions have included their annual Harvest
and Stampede festivals, Seven Seconds and The Blank
Line. In the Herd brand of theatre, nothing needs be
what it seems. It seems to be what it needs.
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