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This summer at the Edmonton Fringe Festival “Think Edward Gorey. Think Charles Adams. Think Stephen King. But think beyond any of those practitioners of the dark arts. Chapman’s pieces go past the macabre, the offbeat, the unexpected, to make strong statements about the human condition.” – Backstage (04)	We loved Canada very much last summer and we are very happy to be coming back. This summer Hanna Cheek is bringing with her an entirely new show.     Photos by Ceder "Ms. Cheek, the spunky dynamo from The Pumpkin Pie Show, packs an emotional wallop"  Jason Zinoman NYTimes  “Cheek plays the audience like a familiar violin -- she emanates seductive and destructive vibes, confronting spectators with an enthralling, dangerous gaze.” -Greenwich Village Gazette A literary fist in the face. Part monologue, part boxing match -- THE PUMPKIN PIE SHOW is a rigorous storytelling session packed with enough intensity to feel like a rock concert rather than a bedtime tale. We hope you are all ready for this one................

"Mr. Chapman uses the macabre to explore the humanity of his characters and reveal an almost spiritual side to the horrific... in these stories, set in a banal, melancholy, lonely landscape, the unknown can also seem sublime."
– The New York Times (2008)

“Like a collection of David Sedaris short stories, these are imaginative, slightly surreal tales that will stay with you for years.”
– Canadian Broadcasting Center (FOUR STARS) (2008)

“Chapman... has crafted his language with care and wit, and it's an uncomfortable pleasure to witness his characters come to life.”
– Edmonton Journal (FOUR STARS) (2008)

“Clay McLeod Chapman and Hanna Cheek make kicking your theatrical ass seem easy...”
– Fringe Famous (2008)

“The energy in this show is so intense, I wasn’t sure whether to laugh or worry that Chapman would leap into the crowd and start throwing chairs.”
– See Magazine (FOUR STARS) (2008)

“Think Edward Gorey. Think Charles Adams. Think Stephen King. But think beyond any of those practitioners of the dark arts. Chapman’s pieces go past the macabre, the offbeat, the unexpected, to make strong statements about the human condition.”
– Backstage (04)

“Cheek plays the audience like a familiar violin -- she emanates seductive and destructive vibes, confronting spectators with an enthralling, dangerous gaze.”
-Greenwich Village Gazette (2003)

“Clay McLeod Chapman is like Stephen King transmogrified into a post-punk preacher poet.”
– The Scotsman (1998)

“Chapman [is] the literary descendent of Edgar Allen Poe...”
– Time Out New York (2003)

The Cast
	HANNA CHEEK* has been a part of The Pumpkin Pie Show since 2002, performing in: Junta High (PS122), Cardiac Shadow (PS122),  Saint Hanna...the patron saint of the PPS (The Kraine Theatre),  Ringside Seats (Belt Theatre),  Rise Perverts Rise, Big Top, and The Birds and the Bees (Red Room, respectively).   She and playwright Chapman also teamed up in 2008 in the wildly acclaimed Hostage Song at the Kraine theatre in NY.  Hanna is a member of the drama desk nominated Waterwell theatre company with whom she has devised and performed in #9 (59e59 theatres), The/King/Operetta (Barrow St. Theatre), Marco Millions…based on lies (Theatre Row), The Persians…a comedy about war with five songs (Perry Street Theatre), Sweetness & Light (Alternate Stages), & Chill & Serve (Ground Floor Theatre). Other NYC Credits: The Amulet (78th Street Lab), First You're Born  (Playwrights Horizons), & Broken Boughs (Blue Heron Arts Center).  TV credits include: Titus, MTV's Undressed, & The West Wing
Clay McLeod Chapman is part of the downtown super group that created the critically acclaimed Hostage Song and the creator of the rigorous storytelling session THE PUMPKIN PIE SHOW. He is the author of rest area, a collection of short stories, and miss corpus, a novel, both published by Hyperion books. He teaches writing at The Actors Studio MFA Program at Pace University.

* Appearing Courtesy of Actors Equity Association

Here are a few more shots I could imagine from the show