Horse Trade Theater Group presents
A Bergin Michaels Production

The Starfish Scream 

Unable to accept his best friend Eric has committed suicide; eighteen year-old Allen begins to replay in his mind scenes from their past year together. Not certain if Eric is alive or dead, Allen searches the past, desperate to uncover the truth about the fate of his best friend Eric.

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Tickets:
Adults $15
Students and Seniors $10

730pm
November
4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13
18, 19, 20, 26 and 27

and

4:00pm
Sundays, November
21st and 28th

Critical praise for Sacrifice to Eros
(a past collaboration between Horse Trade
and Bergin Michaels Productions) include:

“…Fantastic…engaging and realistic…a fine job of directing…Sacrifice to Eros is a polished work by a dedicated team and well worth seeing”
Carlo Fiorletta, Stage Press Weekly

“…a nimble balancing act of conflicting emotions…a lovely, thought-provoking piece…beautifully rendered”
Doug DeVita, OOBR

“The accents come through beautifully…
excellent performances…”
Andrew Henkes, NYtheatre.com

Brent Hartinger (Playwright) is the author of four books, all aimed at teens and adults: Geography Club, The Last Chance Texaco, Grand & Humble, and The Order of the Poison Oak (all Harper-Collins) Awards won: Fort Lauderdale Film Screenwriting Awartd, SCBWI/Judy Blume Grant for Best Young Adult Novel, a grant from the Tacoma Artist Initiative, University of Southwestern Louisiana's Young Adult Fiction Prize, and a Grant for the Development of a New York, award by the Seattle Arts Commission. Mr. Hartinger has also written more than four hundred published essays, articles, cartoons, and stories. His work has appeared in such publications as Omini, Boy's Life, Plays Emmy, The Seattle Weekly, Genre, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Noise, The Advocate, and Playboy.

Bergin Michaels (Producer/Director) is enjoying his second collaboration with Horse Trade, having produced Sacrifice to Eros with them. As an actor he was recently seen in Two Concert Readings of Half-House of Bondage, and Winterset at Prometheus Fire. New York Credits: All God's Chillun Got Wings (Peccadillo), Welcome to Our City (Mint), Damn Yankees(Audelco Winner-Paul Robeson), Meetings with Remarkable People (Theatre Dionysus), Sotaba Komachi, Le Balcon, and Shiku-Hakku (La Mama). Regional Credits: Theater-By-The-Grove, NY Renaissance Festival, and NJ Shakespeare Festival. He is a graduate of The University of Northern Colorado and The New Actors Workshop.

Karen Case Cook (Mrs.Sloan/Mrs. Bleaker) NY credits:The Rivals,Conversations with Socrates,The Dutchess of Malfi(Jean Couteau Repertory),The Curious Savage, The Laundromat(DJM Productions),When I'm 64, The Unexpected Guest,(Theatre By The Blind), The Cherry Orchard,Heartbreak House, The Imaginary Ivalid, Ah Wilderness!(Oasis Theatre), Frankie and Johnnie in the Claire de Lune (Blackstone Productions), and many others.Her regional credits:NJ Shakespeare Festival, Arkansas Repertory,Hartford Stage Old Place.

Jet Thomason (Allan Buckman) is a native of Texas and received his BFA in Musical Theatre from University of Oklahoma.Credits: The World Goes 'Round (Reagle Players)Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, La Cage Aux Folles,Fame,Floyd Collins,Good News!,Guys and Dolls, Eating Raul, and A Chorus Line.He played Sam Lazar in the workshop production of Lily at the Goodspeed Opera House. He is co-founder of The Chocolate Factory.