Bite

Written by: Suzanne Bachner

Sex farce meets choose-your-own-adventure in a wild comedy that spirals out from the dentist's chair to the dominatrix's whip with the audience in control all the way. It's never the same show twice. Keep coming back, get a different taste with every Bite.
Dysfunctional Theatre, The John Montgomery Theatre Company and Horse Trade present the World Premiere of BITE. This new comedy of dentistry and domination is written and directed by Suzanne Bachner , author of the Off-Broadway hit Circle.

In BITE, comic sex farce meets choose-your-own-adventure. It intertwines the tales of two competing dentists, two dominatrixes, and a southern belle. The action begins in a sterile 5th Avenue dentist's chair and ends down in the cavities of a secret dominatrix-run dungeon with the audience in control all the way. Unlike most "interactive" theater experiences, BITE is intricately scripted and meticulously plotted with multiple outcomes at every turn. Never the same show twice, you'll want to keep coming back to get a different taste with every BITE.

The production stars Bob Brader, Robert Brown, Jennifer Gill, Theresa Goehring, Amy Overman, Justin Plowman with Naomi Warner and Peter Schuyler. BITE features Jeff Goldschmidt, Stage Manager dramaturgy by Rick Vomdran and Margaret Stockton, with sound design by Alexander R. Warner and costume, prop & mask design by Deborah Alves, Lighting consultant John Tees, III and set by Charles Townsend Wittreich, Jr.

Suzanne Bachner 's award-winning play Circle ran for five months Off-Broadway. Her plays include Icons & Outcasts, Don't Let Destiny Push You Around, Alexandra Triptych, Jump Start, Alice Through the Looking Glass and Flirting with Reality. She studied playwriting with Romulus Linney and received her MFA from The Actors Studio Drama School at The New School. She has received four OOBR Awards and is a member of The Dramatists Guild.

Dysfunctional Theatre Company was founded in 1997 as a collective committed to producing fast-paced, pop culture-based shows that experiment with the structure of theater. Among its past 21 productions are The Eight: Reindeer Monologues; Hoover: A Love Story; Real Live Sex Onstage ; Dario Fo's We Won't Pay, We Won't Pay; I Am Star Trek; Sir John Wilmot's Sodom or the Quintessence of Debauchery; and a workshop production of BITE in April 2005 at The Red Room. Dysfunctional Theatre has been a Horse Trade resident company since 2001.

The John Montgomery Theatre Company was founded in 1994 by Patrick Hillan. JMTC has produced over 40 productions in New York and is currently a resident company at Horse Trade. Past productions include the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway production of Circle; Shakespeare's Othello starring Geoffrey Owens; a six month run of Icons & Outcasts and the New York premiere of When I Was a Girl, I Used to Scream and Shout directed by Trish Minskoff and starring Roberta Maxwell.