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...Besides feedback from dozens of thrilled CAFF participants and artists, Horse Trade was drawn to its main principle: “…to provide all artists, emerging and established, with the opportunity to produce their play no matter the content, form or style and to make the event as affordable and accessible as possible for the members of the community...” |
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| Show Name | Company Name | Author | Website | Description | Type of Show | Price | main City | main State/Province | Main Country |
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| "Live! … at the Cockpit: Will at Work with the Lord Chamberlain's Men" | Loose Moon Productions, Inc. | Kobun Aloka Kaluza and T.D. White | www.loosemoon productions.com |
Back stage fun during a performance of the last act of "Midsummer Night's Dream" at the newly built 1599 Globe Theatre, that " ...most lamentable comedy and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe." Meet the actors responsible for the "First Folio" as they are introduced to Shakespeare's newest plays, "Henry V," "Hamlet." | Comedy | $16.00 | NYC | NY | USA |
| 95/turnpike/95: Chickens in Jersey | International BTC | Jeff Belanger & Amanda Sage Comerford | An absurdly slow day on the Jersey Turnpike takes a sudden turn when two tollbooth attendants face impending doom barreling towards them… in the form of a truck filled with chickens. | Comedy | $8.00 | Brooklyn | NY | USA | |
| Dalton Trambo's Johnny Got His Gun | Ricardo Perez-Gonzalez | Ricardo Perez-gonzalez | www.sleepless. lookoutplayers.org |
Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun tells of Joe Bonham, rendered a blind and deaf quadriplegic in WWI. Through an intimate one-man performance, we explore the mind of a boy cut off from the world as he struggles to come to terms with the life he has lost. | Drama | $15.00 | Astoria | NY | USA |
| End of the Trail | EXIT Theatre | Sean Owens and Kenny Shults | www.theexit.org | Facing a possible Apocalypse, two old friends play a treacherous board game called "The End of the Trail." The object of the game? Don't die alone! This two-man tightrope act keeps its balance by hurling accusations on all sides. A darkly comic examination of friendship and how little it helps. | Other | $15.00 | San Francisco | CA | USA |
| Jet of Blood or the Ball of Glass | No. 11 Productions | Antonin Artaud | www.no11 productions.com |
Jet of Blood or the Ball of Glass is a visceral, violent look at and attack on humanity. Both funny and disturbing, this play is a tossed salad of Surrealism and Theatre of Cruelty, barraging all of the senses with ever-changing stimuli. And scorpions. | Other | $11.00 | Long Island City | NY | USA |
| Melting in Madras | Overcoat Theater | H. R. Britton | www.Overcoat Theater.com |
“Melting in Madras” is a darkly comic look at storyteller H.R. Britton’s quixotic “pilgrimage” to India. Evocative of the Subcontinent’s sights and sounds, by turns gently humorous and increasingly anxious, the tale follows Britton’s slightly misguided adventures into the terrain of sickness and delusion, and back again. | Poetry Storytelling |
$9.00 | Brooklyn | NY | USA |
| Now, And at the Hour | EXIT Theatre | Christian Cagigal | www.theexit.org | Join award winning performer and critically acclaimed magician, Christian Cagigal as he takes you onto a journey through Time and Reflection. Not a mere series of tricks, Christian Cagigal weaves magic, mind reading, story telling and theatre into an intimate, interactive and altogether "slightly creepy" magical experience. | Other | $15.00 | San Francisco | CA | USA |
| Oens | Wilson Loria | Wilson Loria | www.Wilsonloria.com | From the Age of Discovery to the effects of today's globalization, Oens portrays a disquieting ordinary man and his journey to self-realization. Bringing and mixing the past and the present together, Oens shows that "globalization" is not a recently coined word in today's vocabulary. Through music, mime and dance, Oens also enacts the eternal wish for a better world. | Solo Performance |
$15.00 | Gulfport | Florida | USA |
| Recess | Una Aya Osato | Una Aya Osato | Recess is a one-woman show created from the experience of the author/performer, Una Aya Osato, attending and teaching in NYC public schools. It confronts the state of today's public school system where struggles for power, criminalization of the youth and the effects of a suffocating bureaucracy are a daily reality. | Solo Performance |
$15.00 | Brooklyn | NY | USA | |
| Son of Man | Lara Torgovnick and Anna Umansky | Lara Torgovnik and Anna Umansky | Inspired by Chuck Mee's Time To Burn, Son of Man explores class division, diversity and sexuality. This play delves into the lives of twelve individuals as they wait for a train in a purgatory. | Drama | $15.00 | Brooklyn | NY | USA | |
| The Expatriates | The Beggers Group | Randy Harrison and Harrison Williams | www.thebeggers group.com |
F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, and Ernest Hemingway are placed into a devilish purgatory to face their lives all over again. Flappers, booze, and jazz are the guides to untold wealth and unimaginable excess. Leading this fast paced show barreling toward certain destruction. | Drama | $15.00 | Brooklyn | NY | USA |
| The Giant's Causeways | Nora S. McLaughlin | Nora S. McLaughlin | A story about two boys growing up in Belfast, Ireland between 1969 and 1971 amidst the political struggles of that time and how their friendship is affected. | Other | $12.00 | Montclair | NJ | USA | |
| The Question House | Breadbasket Productions | Tara Dairman | Why does everyone speak only in questions at Question House Research Consulting? Is it true that they'll be struck by the hand of God if they don't? Can Margaret keep the cops at bay when another assistant goes down? Isn't it just a miserable day? Wouldn't you like to know? | Comedy | $10.00 | Weehawken | NJ | USA | |
| The Solitary | Al-Khareef Theatre Troupe | Nawar Bulbul & Ramez Alaswad | It's a story of two men, the frist is the prisoner and the other is the prison guard, eveyone has his own dream, but life is not fair, through the 50 minutes we give a glance on those two men's life which is mostly, not fair, full of broken dreams, do they get to their dreams at the end...??!! | Drama | $13.00 | Damascus | Damascus | SYRIA | |
| Y | Irene Glezos | Irene Glezos | http://ireneglezos.com /Y__a_Monroesity.html |
"Y" travels through the inner landscape of a delusional woman who believes she is Marilyn Monroe. Weaving truth with imagination -- and with the use of free association, alter egos, drug-induced manic episodes, and, especially, an open heart, "Y" follows MM as she works to solve her own death. | Solo Performance |
$16.00 | NYC | NY | USA |
| ??? | John Hefner | ?????? | Cabin John | Maryland | USA | ||||
| BAGS: Obsessions of a Hoardaholic | Lee Michael Buckman | Lee Michael Buckman | http://leebuckman.com/ | Glimpses of an obsessive personality and some of his adventures as he attempts desperately to cling onto objects and things that he thinks will help him navigate through life. While exploring and attempting to understand his OCD related instincts better, he searches for & finds the root of it. | Solo Performance |
$15.00 | New York | NY | U.S.A. |
| Camouflage | Camouflage Productions | Gail Roberts | Camouflage: Who? -We all do it. What? -Disguise reality. Why? -Because it's easier. When? -Often. Where? -Everywhere. This one-woman play explores the dongers of camouflaging the truth, especially from yourself. Humour, pathos, raucous, gut wrenching, you'll laugh, you'll cry, it's better than sex. | Solo Performance |
$12.00 | Etobicoke | Ontario | Canada | |
| Are We Freaks? | Comedy Period | Bricken Sparacino | www.comedy period.com |
4 short stories about 8 abnormal women. Freaks and friends-who really is normal after all? | Comedy | $15.00 | New York | NY | U.S.A. |
| Brainstorming | Rory Raven | Rory Raven | www.roryraven.com | Rory Raven Will Read Your Mind. Neither a psychic nor a magician, his knowledge of the inner workings of the human psyche allows him to read minds, bend spoons, and perform other remarkable feats. Rory leads a fun, fast-paced tour through the mind and its powers, both real and imagined. | Solo Performance |
$10.00 | Providence | RI | U.S.A. |
| Coffee Dad, Chicken Mom and the Fabulous Buddha Boy | Mischief and Mayhem Theatre | Nick Green | Clucking, chanting, and a lot of caffeine! Meet a family who are trying to figure out what it's all about, in very different ways. If they're lucky they may actually be able to live together, or better yet, with themselves. Who says home is where the heart is? | Solo Performance |
$15.00 | Edmonton | AB | Canada | |
| Freedom 85! | Hi-D Theatre | Debra Hale | hi-dtheatre. blogspot.com |
When a clumsy waitress breaks a feisty 85 year old out of her retirement home, past and present collide. This two- woman multi-character comedy has it all: colorful townies, euchre, war stories, a Jamaican diner and loves lost and found. | Comedy | $10.00 | Toronto | Ontario | CA |
| How Does A Drug Deal Become A Decent 3rd Date? | Green with Envy Productions | Kelly Aija Zemnickis | 'How Does…' is the story of a girl who is coming to grips with a dating life that is unraveling. Why is she attracting these guys? Could it be her? Or maybe dating isn't about perfecting the art of what doesn't work… | Comedy | $12.00 | Toronto | Ontario | Canada | |
| Hysteri-Killy! A One Frrooklyneak show | Kelly B. Dwyer | Kelly B. Dwyer | www.KELLYBDWYER.com | A freaky, fantastic voyage through the mind of a manic depressive/cockeyed optimist, Hysteri-Killy! is a multi media, comedic performance art piece that uses original music, dance and film to create concept comedy with a strangetastic yet serious message. | Solo Performance |
$8.00 | Brooklyn | NY | USA |
| Jihad for Vent and Dummy | Coulter and Star Ventriloquists | Ronald E. Coulter | www.Coulterand Star.com |
A deadly puppet skirmish that pulls your strings. Theatre, frivolity and horror collide. Welcome to the Ruby Lounge for a shocking confession. Actor/ventriloquists Ron Coulter and Sid Star say, “You may never again believe in belief or other weapons of mass distraction.” | Puppetry | $15.00 | San Francisco | CA | USA |
| My Mother's Monologues | Department of -E- Productions | Mike Evans | http://mikeevansnow. googlepages.com/ |
This is a gripping reading of some of the most personal stuff ever put on paper by a human being. | Drama | $16.00 | NYC | NY | USA |
| On Second Thought | Wog Productions | Paul Hutcheson | www.wog productions.com |
"On Second Thought" is based on those times in life we get ourselves into and then question how we got there. | Comedy | $10.00 | Toronto | Ontario | Canada |
| The Black Jew Dialogues | The Black Jew Dialogues | Larry Jay Tish and Ron Jones | http://www.theblack jewdialogues.com |
What’s so funny about two American minorities that have slavery, the KKK, and chicken livers in common? You’ll find out in this extraordinary two-actor play on the history and absurdity of prejudice and racism. Multi-media production, combining aspects of theatre, sketch-comedy, improv, video, and spoken-word. | Comedy | $16.00 | Cmabridge | MA | USA |
| The Dysfuntional Guide to Home Perfection, Marital Bliss, and Passionate Hot Rom | Dysfunctional Theatre Company | www.dysfunctional theatre.org |
As a companion piece to Dysfunctional’s 2001 hit, “How to Have the Ultimate Orgasm Each and Every Time”, this “How To” piece will use a blend of vintage and original writings to teach you how to be the perfect housewife (or househusband) - Dysfunctional style. | Comedy | $15.00 | New York | NY | U.S.A. | |
| The Surprise | Martin Dockery | Martin Dockery | The Surpise is a comic monologue about a trip to Saigon to rescue a relationship with both my girlfriend, who can't decide if she wants children, and my father, who reveals he's got brand new twin Vietnamese children of his own. | Solo Performance |
$16.00 | Brooklyn | NY | U.S.A. |
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