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Horse Trade Theater Group presents
The Pumpkin Pie Show
Thursday, October 16, 2008 through Saturday, November 01, 2008
A literary fist in the face!
Length: 1 hr 5 mins
Intermission: None
Seating: General Admission
You choose your seats when you get to the theater.
'a series of gripping, often unnerving short plays rooted in classic gothic literature...But while the monstrous element in most horror stories inspires terror or disgust, the melancholy characters in Mr. Chapman’s portraits of ordinary people seem to find a salvation in the mysterious horrors of life...Mr. Chapman uses the macabre to explore the humanity of his characters and reveal an almost spiritual side to the horrific...'
- Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 10/20/2008
Fresh off their hugely successful international summer tour, the award winning THE PUMPKIN PIE SHOW returns to New York City to celebrate their 10th anniversary with a hand-selected roster of a decades worth of their favorite stories. 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. Filled with tales of the bizarre, dark, and perverted, THE PUMPKIN PIE SHOW is bedtime stories for adults. Every story is chosen at random each night, so each show is guaranteed to be completely different from the last. This is THE PUMPKIN PIE SHOW like you've never seen it before!
Celebrating ten years of performances, THE PUMPKIN PIE SHOW has established itself has an all-points artistic hodgepodge of theatre and literature - picking and choosing the essentials of each genre and channeling their rocking properties into an entertaining and truly original experience. Horse Trade Theater Group discovered The Pumpkin Pie Show 10 years ago, when the New York International Fringe Festival was using one of their venues. Horse Trade loved the show so much that they been producing with playwright Clay McLeod Chapman ever since. Most recently they collaborated on the critically acclaimed Hostage Song, which Charles Isherwood of the New York Times said: "In this season of unlikely musicals, on Broadway and off, Hostage Song may be the oddest of all... The show takes some risky comic flights of fancy but mostly plays it straight, telling a grim story with journalistic detail and understated compassion." |
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