Horse Trade's The Cauldron

85 East Fourth Street
Third Floor
between 2nd and 3rd Ave

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"If you're looking to celebrate this Halloween with a truly chilling, nail-gnawing, experience, you won't fail with The Cauldron,-- a magical brew of three mysterious, twisted, and frightening short plays featured in this year's SF--The Sci-Fi Event."

Reviewed By S. Chawla
Backstage: October 22, 2001

Horse Trade Theater Group's Producing Artistic Director, Kimo DeSean, curates three short new plays brew in a simmering stew of mystery, magic, demons and dreams; where nothing is simple or quite what it seems.

Apparition
An uneasy tale of the underknown.

Written by Anne Washburn
Directed by Linsay Firman

The World Might be Uninhabited
A short poetic play which explores the alternate realities which dreaming minds create. It is a moment from the life of a man, Theordore, who wakes from a nightmare in the middle of the night, and seeks comfort from wife, Abagail. The words of comfort that she offers are the same we all use to keep any nightmare, real or imagined, at bay: It was just a dream. Wasn't it?

Written by Sayrafiezadeh
Directed by Rosemary Andress

The Closing Guy
Bodiless voices float through the air on radio waves. There is a treasure to lure them, a broom to sweep them up with, and a key to lock the door; all in the hands of The Closing Guy. Travel with host Tobias Dark down the rabbit hole of time as a mysterious dreamclock blurs the line between past and future. The Closing Guy is a mystical detour into the murky corners of relationship and existence, revealing crystalline wonders, bloody threats and the unexpected.

Written by Tony Daniel
Directed by Glynis Rigsby