Horse Trade Productions Show Listings

June 21 - Aug 2
fridays 1030 pm

Special Performance
Tuesday, July 23
8pm

Tickets: $10 Adult general admission

$6 students and seniors

94 St Marks Place
(8th Street) Ground Floor
between 1st Avenue and Avenue A

Map

Question: What do you do when the rest of your sketch group moves to LA?

Answer: Drink, dream and do a one-man show.

KEVIN MAHER, one-third of the acclaimed, currently disbanded sketch troupe TV HEAD, stars in his first one-man show. . . populated by 27 characters living in a country that celebrates the rugged individual yet fears the loner, scorns the drifter and demonizes the hobo. Maher's pride parade of deadbeats, shut-ins and swillbellys includes a paranoid Sam Goody employee, a jogger who sold his soul for prune juice, and an animatronic John Wayne framed for murder.

LONE DRIFTER has been performed at Surf Reality, PSNBC @ HERE and in Horse Trade Theater Group's January 2002 HA! Comedy Fest
(excerpts of which were recently featured on Comedy Central's website).

photograph by Sarah Welt

photograph by Damon Ross

PRESS QUOTES

"You know you're watching good character-based comedy when the laughs outnumber the jokes."
Time Out New York, Critics Comedy Pick, May 2002

"Kevin Maher is a shining example of truly independent humor and spirit. Not only that, but he's actually funny too!"
Lloyd Kaufman, President of Troma & Creator of The Toxic Avenger

photograph by Sarah Welt

KEVIN MAHER: spent the last four years writing & performing with the sketch group TV Head, which produced multiple stage shows and videos while appearing at Carolines, Gotham Comedy Club, and on The Roseanne Show. Kevinâs short film Family Dinner Party was part of Tromadance 2001, with screenings outside of Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals. A film commissioned by MOMA and created by Kevin is in the museumâs archives. Kevin played Laertes and Dunky in Jeff Eyres' "Hamlet: Satanic Sentinel of the Suburbs." LONE DRIFTER is Kevin's first solo effort since the sixth grade, where he lip-synched to Cheap Trick's Surrender.

JEFF EYRES (Director):is a frequent contributor to Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update. His sketch group Mental Furniture had a sold-out run at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre and appeared on HBO's New Performers series. He hosted Surf Reality's "Serious Pratfalls" for four years. Jeff wrote & directed the play "Hamlet: Satanic Sentinel of the Suburbs" and has directed one-man shows by Jay Oakes and Tom Carrozza. Check out http://www.jeffeyres.com for jokes, rants and snarky potshots at politicians and celebrities.