(a)muse collective and Horse Trade Theater Group present a series of individually driven diversions. Sunday nights at UNDER St. Marks there will be Ramblings, Scratchings and Travelers while Sexy will always come Back and Acid Trips appear. Buckle up for the Ride, things will happen, sometimes shocking, sometimes amusing, but always entertaining.
Ramblings of a Gentleman Scumbag
Lucky Chengs’ Balloon man, delusional comic, and man of no God tries to justify 34 years of poor life choices and degeneracy. Profiled in Playgirl, FHM Magazine, Time-Out NY Magazine, Murdock is not your Father’s balloon man. Ramblings features stories of fools met and mastered, “divine inspiration,” and a perspective of the Big Apple from within the rotten core. A straight man in a gay world, a feminist in the sex industry, a sober man in the middle of a never-ending party, a ridiculous man in a ridiculous world.
SCRATCH
A play in verse and song, written and performed by Joe Yoga.
Part of (a)muse collective's Six Deadly Miracles series of solo shows by its members, Scratch tells the story of a man trying to decide whether or not to leave New York City in the wake of his failed engagement. We follow him through what could be his last few hours in New York, sifting his psychological Lost and Found to try and make sense of what was lost and to stock up on supplies before moving on to what's next. A dramatization, condensation, and re-imagining of events from the author's life, Scratch is a meditation on loss, expectations, motivation, and home. A life in the night of a tough call.
No Traveler
When Abigail killed herself she thought it would be the end. Instead she finds herself still awake, still aware and stuck. In a purgatory that is oddly similar to her own apartment she is unwillingly sent back to life for only moments at a time where she is confronted with a person about to commit suicide. What she does in those moments are her choice and will decide her fate. A comedy about suicide that asks the very serious question, What would you say to save a life?
SEXYBACK
Does anyone think about the woman in the corner of the bar, the lady who dances to forget, drinks to become numb, watches humanity with an eagle eye and dagger tongue? Now you have to. A magical skankarama of intimate proportions.
Acid stories from Play Land
Mike Milazzo's combination of Music and Storytelling from the early years as a drug addled kiddi-ride operator to his career highs and lows from opening for Donavon and Richie Havens to sharing the stage with the Huskies mascot at the bullshead shopping center strip-mall (not necessarily in that order) Music feeds the soul but the man’s gotta eat.
Buckle Up: The Journey of a Ride Home
Natalie Underwood takes us on one woman’s powerful and yet bumpy journey to adulthood. Love is love even when it is forbidden - even when it smacks you dead center in the middle of a criminal court case, when it threatens a marriage, when it disrupts the power hierarchy of an entire organization. Join her for this chilling and poignant look at age, love, betrayal, and redemption, as her character examines the road traveled and the vehicle she once rode in so securely. Experience the crash. Meet the little girl that refuses to get out of the passenger seat, and the woman that finally takes the wheel.
Raw Art Now. Through words, images, music, comedy and performance, (a)muse Collective explores the transcribed dreams, hopes, visions, and breakthroughs of its contributors, the underground arts scene of early Post-Millennial New York City.