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Horse Trade Seasons

September 2005 - August 2006
September 2004 - August 2005
September 2003 - August 2004
September 2002 - August 2003
September 2001 - August 2002
September 2000 - August 2001
September 1999 - August 2000
July 1998 - August 1999
   

 

Current Season

Fall/Winter 06

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.

BITE ran for five cavity free months. We would like to thank every person who helped to make BITE a success - cast & crew & audience, dentists & dominatrixes & slaves.  Your Mistress is very proud of you.

Fighting for interplanetary justice, truth, and freedom, Captain Jock Jupiter of the Rocket Rangers and his faithful sidekick, Twink Turner, ride their roaring rockets through the wild, vast reaches of outer space to save mankind.

The sugar-coated cheery atop the Nouveau Burlesque scene, Sugar Shack Burlesque brings together the hot-blooded honey Lady Satan with the southern sweetie, RunAround Sue. Together these two classy broads have spun a heavenly

Found in a ruined pyramid in the jungles of Peru , the Strange Box contains dark, evil powers and mysteries beyond imagination - powers that can only be harnessed by one Dr. Avery Oddbody. A brilliant - if flawed - professor from Miskatonic University, Dr. Oddbody is the sole wielder of the Box's terrible power. With it, he has summoned up a cadre of undead performers to enact fully-improvised bizarre and frightening nightmares for the delight and disgust of discerning audiences this fall.

Le Lycanthrope is an "unofficial sequel" to Le Misanthrope, by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere. Le Lycanthrope begins on Halloween, 1673, with Alceste having returned from six years in the wilderness. He claims to be a "Lycanthrope", a WEREWOLF, and has come to exact Revenge upon the "Wolves Society" of his enemies. So he decides to throw a little Halloween Party...

The epic battle between vampire and slayer rages on, in the newest action-packed installment from Edge of Insanity. The Slayers take turns chasing and being chased all over the city and across the country, with gruesome casualties along the way.

Wasabassco, the infamous purveyor of hot sauce and hot women, brings its diabolical brand of burlesque to Manhattan for the first time ever, where everything will go to hell... literally. When seven gorgeous women and one charming trickster dally with the devil, beauty gets sinister and the performances pernicious in WASABASSCO'S EVIL NIGHT at the Kraine. So trade your eternal soul for the chance to see nefarious numbers by Delirium Tremens, Gigi LaFemme, Little Brooklyn, Nasty Canasta, Nelson Lugo, Peekaboo Pointe, Ruby Valentine, Scarlet Sinclair, hosted by Jonny Porkpie as Mephistopheles.

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85 East 4th Street is a location familiar to ghosthunters and scientists of the paranormal . Its history is riddled with murders and horrible deaths which began even before the present building was erected a hundred years ago. Join us as we plan to uncover its gruesome past and maybe even speak to some of the troubled spirits who still reside there.

The jolly old elf himself is at the top of the naughty list this year and you won't believe what his 8 most trusted reindeer have to say. See 8 takes on the same tragic tale of sex, alcohol, pedophilia and rampant bestiality gone so wrong that Christmas itself is in danger of being cancelled.
A town held tightly in the clammy grip of terror!  A knife-wielding maniac on the loose!  Beautiful young girls held hostage by nefarious smut peddlers!  A multi-million dollar porn racket!  And two hard-bitten, hard-luck cops trying to save us from it all… and largely failing, to be brutally honest.  It's all true!  It's all real!  It's the Sinister Urge!  GIRLS, DON'T LET IT HAPPEN TO YOU!

Winter/Spring 07

Meet Dori Richter, a nice Jewish girl from Long Island whose life changes when she answers an ad in the newspaper seeking a "writer/editor who must be comfortable with male nudity." DIRTY GIRL takes audiences on a wild, comedic ride from the offices of the fictional Loverboy magazine to steamy photo shoot locales as it tells the story of Dori's quest to find a woman who is actually turned on by the images in her  magazine.
A leggy redhead is shot dead in the middle of her nightclub act and Ben Farrell PI, is on the case. The list of suspects grows to include a fatalistic femme fatale, an avaricious publisher, and a millionaire playboy who pens a serialized crime novel called… Kill Me Like You Mean It . Turns out that art imitates life and Ben Farrell finds his own life in the pages of the playboy's pulp fiction while the redhead's simple murder mystery quickly degenerates into a sick game for which Farrell never learned the rules.
. Maggie is confronted with her past, present and future as she moves from reality to reality in her exploration of philosophy, nature, love and the lines that bleed between. Axel and Maggie have been having an affair for so long it seems like a marriage, and all the motel rooms are beginning to look alike. Today, however, Maggie has to decide whether to reveal a serious truth, as Axel, in his self-obsessed way, ponders the "Many Worlds" theory of quantum physics. He considers the idea that in each moment, with each decision we make, Another World begins and continues simultaneously with the one we inhabit. As the conversation continues several possible "other worlds" open up, some even involving Maggie's husband, Skip. As they are sucked in and out of these different worlds, it becomes harder and harder for the couple to re-connect, and harder for Maggie to reveal the truth about herself, a truth that will drastically alter their routine of an affair, and change their lives forever.

Three Neo-Futuristic Views of the Apocalypse.

Monkeyland II
(anatk 21.10)
Written by Rob Neill
Directed by Jacquelyn Landgraf

In which the end of the world...
Written by Justin Tolley
Directed by Mark Armstrong

Revelations Of a City Of Us
Written by Crystal Skillman
Directed by Chris Dippel

FRIGID New York represents the first ever CAFF -sanctioned festival in New York City. As a celebration of downtown indie theater tailored to support the artist, the artistic freedom of the FRIGID New York participating artists is entirely uncensored.

Three Theaters, Twelve Days, 30 participating companies, over 150 performances ...see you at FRIGID New York!

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