Horse Trade Theater Group & DMTheatrics Present:

THE STRANGER
Adapted & Directed by Frank Cwiklik

From the 1946 motion picture THE STRANGER
Written by Anthony Veillor & John Huston,
adapted & Directed by Orson Welles
Screen Story by Victor Trivas and Decla Dunning
Additional material by Frank Cwiklik
Produced by Michele Schlossberg & Frank Cwiklik.

THURS, FRI, SAT, SUN @ 7:30PM
DEC. 6th To DEC. 22nd (No SUN. DEC 23rd) 2001

THE RED ROOM
85 EAST 4th STREET BETWEEN 2nd & 3rd AVE.

$15/$10 Students/Seniors

Commit A Crime And The Earth is Made of Glass. Gripping and unrelenting, this emotionally charged World War II spy classic created by Orson Welles is presented by DMTheatrics in a form closer to that which Welles originally intended, including restored scenes and original casting conceits. Noir in tone, fatalistic in nature, and full of rage and horror at the loss and waste of war, The Stranger grapples with the moral elements of the most pivotal event of the 20th Century, as the shadow of Hitler's awful plan for the annihilation of an entire people hovers over this nerve-wracking spy thriller.

Pure evil hides itself in a small American town when an escaped Nazi official adopts a new identity and marries into one of America's most prominent families; until an obsessed stranger arrives to flush out his true identity. The only one who can help ..and one of the only people to know his horrifying secret..is the woman who loves him. Peter B. Brown stars as the hunted, desperate Nazi official Franz Kindler..who, having assumed the guise of New England schoolmaster Charles Rankin, has managed to infiltrate his way into one of America's most important political families. Sarah Jane Bunker plays the tormented Mary Longstreet ..who falls in love with Charles, only to find herself having to protect Kindler.

Michele Schlossberg is Wilson, the determined, ruthless spy hunter who will stop at nothing ..not even the destruction of a New England community..to catch this inhuman monster. Also Starring: Dan Maccarone, Tom Reid, Ian W. Hill, Josh Mertz, Gerald Marsini and Moira Stone.

FRANK CWIKLIK (Director/Co-Producer & Artistic Director of DMTheatrics), creator of the acclaimed "Bitch Macbeth" and "The Fugitive Girls," stages "The Stranger" with muscular vigor and unstinting fervor.

Cwiklik has been hailed by The Village Voice as "a tireless theatrical impresario who takes his work beyond moving and into the real."

Danse Macabre Theatrics was founded in 1998 by writer/director Frank Cwiklik, with the purpose of attracting new and younger audiences to live theater, and to revitalize the medium by way of a common sense approach to storytelling..no agenda other than basic, old fashioned entertainment. Its members feel that the most radical move one can make in theater is backwards.. back into the basic genres, back into vaudeville and burlesque, back into the audience-friendly rough and tumble motifs that even Shakespeare and the Greek dramatists embraced and reinvented. Abstract, linear, commercial, experimental, funny, sad, DMTheatrics covers the full range of performance expression. DMTheatrics has directly, or in collaboration with other companies, produced almost 20 shows, with no sponsors, grants, or funding---determined to subsist solely on box office and the support of their audience base.

They are artists in residence with Horse Trade Theater Group.

Since its inception in 1998, DMTheatrics has produced or co-produced a number of shows in various NYC off-off-Broadway theatres. Below is our repertory of past performances. Girlsâ School Vampire, Salome, Amazons in Chains! Twenty, Bitch Macbeth, Quicksand, The Masterworks of Edward D. Wood, Jr., featuring The Fugitive Girls!, Bride of The Monster, The Sinister Urge!, The Violent Years, Orgy of The Dead, Jail Bait

FRANK CWIKLIK, Artistic Director of DMTheatrics, has been hailed by The Village Voice as "a tireless theatrical impresario.. an obvious talent (who) takes his work beyond moving and into the real"; by Time Out New York as "the campiest and most enjoyable of..directors"; and by NYTheatre.com as "a director of budding brilliance. I can't wait to see what he does next." He has been working steadily in Off-Off-Broadway Independent Theater since 1999, when his cult comedy, Girls' School Vampire, premiered at the Greenwich Street Playhouse. The show returned in Halloween of that year at the legendary Todo Con NADA, where he began his long collaboration with downtown theater legend Ian W. Hill, whose guidance helped DMTheatrics rapidly build a huge repertory and a dedicated following.

His massive Ed Wood Festival staged eight of the screen iconoclast's classic works; the apocalyptic S&M mutant Shakespeare, Bitch Macbeth, ran to sellout houses and rave reviews.

MICHELE SCHLOSSBERG-CWIKLIK---has been the Managing Director of DMTheatrics since January, 2000.

After her first year at the prestigious American Academy of Dramatic Arts she was thrown out of the Academy and went to study at Oxford University in the even more prestigious and considerably more fun Midsummer at Oxford Program. After meeting her husband Frank Cwiklik in 1999, she directed and performed in over 11 productions with DMTheatrics, and has worked with Ian W. Hill, creator of Gemini collision works and former Artistic Director of Todo Con Nada. In 2001-2002 season, she will direct a stage adaptation of The Third Man, reprise her role as Cat in The Fugitive Girls!.