Horse Trade Theater Group Presents:
The Pumpkin Pie Show

in "BIG TOP"
All-New Carnival-Themed Stories

Written by Clay McLeod Chapman

Music Written & Performed by
Michael Hearst & Joshua Camp
of One Ring Zero

Performances by
Clay McLeod Chapman,
Hanna Cheek,
Max Moore,

Niabi Caldwell and the Great Throwdini

85 East 4th Street
(between 2nd and 3rd Ave)
MAP

MAY 24 thru JUNE 29
FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS, 10:30PM

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Enter the realm of The Pumpkin Pie Show. . .


. . . a storytelling session delivered with the punk rock Kamikaze intensity of an artistic three-way between literature, theatre and music.
Backed by a live soundtrack from One Ring Zero, Clay McLeod Chapman and company shatter the dividing line between spectator and actor
to create a rock concert/theatrical side show that has earned a worldwide cult following that grows with each new performance.

Don't miss two special performances :


THURSDAY, May 16th, 2002
10:30 pm
Kraine Theater
The Pumpkin Pie Show
unplugged

10:30 pm
Kraine Theater

Thursday June 13, 2002
The Pumpkin Pie Show
Classics

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"Pin Cushion"

Featuring renowned knife-throwing act
THE GREAT THROWDINI & NIABI

Married for ten years, Walt and his wife have been performing their knife-throwing routine in front of audiences all across the country.

Impotent off-stage, Walt has to use his cutlery as a means in which to get himself excited, as the two exercise their sexual fantasies on-stage, in front of hundreds.. . .

 

"Overbite"

The Iron Jaw, a beautiful young acrobat who suspends herself from the trapeze solely by the strength of her bite, has fallen prey to the occupational hazards of her profession. Courted by dozens of male admirers, her own teeth stand in the way of her finding true love. With a jaw as powerful as hers, one kiss can prove deadly for anyone who dares to try. . .

 

"Tummy Tamer"

Tartooth and Sandleman, the lion and the lion tamer, have been bound to one another for years, running through their routine of Sandleman slipping his head inside Tartooth's gaping mouth time and time again.

But when Tartooth decides to disrupt the balance between them and actually bite down, Sandleman is left to fight his way back into the spotlight--from within the belly of the beast, itself . . .

 

 

"Dunking Booth"

The most reviled man of the carnival develops a strong dependency on his position as the dunking booth taunter. . .

 

 

"A Hand To Pitch Tent"

A meditation on the lure of the traveling circus as the last American remnant of the old Gypsy-urge. As a nomadic freak show tours the deep south, young corn farmers-to-be are inexplicably drawn under its tent, pulled by the sirens call of an ethereal trapeze artist who soars, twists, and turns supported only by her hair.. . .

 

 

 

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

Playwright and storyteller Clay McLeod Chapman has been transposing his fiction to the stage for over ten years producing in Romania, Scotland, Ireland and the United States.

In February 2002, Hyperion released

Rest Area,
a collection of short stories.

Chapman's novel, Miss Corpus , will be released in February 2003.
 

"Like a younger, weirder, hornier, and, well, alive Eudora Welty, Chapman dishes out a fresh plate of his Southern-fried Gothic tales." The Village Voice

"Chapman's gift is to turn the silly and the grotesque into the beautiful and the real." TheaterMania.com

"Simultaneously funny, intense and oddly poetic." CitySearch

 

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