Episode # 273 - FRIGID New York Festival Preview
Bricken Sparacino and Uma Incrocci
Host Trav S. D. moderates this episode of Indie Theater Now! as he spotlights six shows that will be part of the third annual Frigid Festival playing at three Horse Trade Theatres; the Kraine, The Red Room, and Under St. Marks. His first guests are writer/actor Bricken Sparacino and actor Uma Incrocci of Are We Freaks who perform a short scene from the play.
Randy Anderson and Harrison Williams, co-artistic directors of the Beggars Group, tell Trav about their play The Expatriates, which has gone through several incarnations over the past few years. Their Frigid Festival showing is one part of a longer proposed version. This one deals with F. Scott Fitzgerald and they tell the listeners much about their process.
Writer/performer Irene Glezos gives a short excerpt from her show Y, marilyn unstitched and then discusses this show with Trav. Her work, of course, is about Marilyn Monroe and is made up of much research, some factual, some hypothesized, accounts about the death and life of this screen icon.
Kelly 'Killy' Dwyer talks about her solo show, Hysteri-Killy! A one-Freak Show. She explains how it is a show about herself, and about the audience and it is told with music. The music and songs tell the story.
Writer/performer Martin Dockery performs the first five minutes of his one man show, The Surprise. It tells the story of a father and son at dinner and a later meeting between the son and his brother to learn just what the surprise will be.
The evening ends with an excerpt from habeas corpus performed by Kim Harmon and Denzil Myers. They discuss with Trav their method of creating the piece. They reach out through their website to learn 'what people want to get rid of'.
Episode Links:
- Frigid Festival listing on nytheatre.com
- Are We Freaks website
- The Expatriates website
- Y, marilyn unstitched website
- Hysteri-Killy! website
- The Surprise website
- habeas corpus website