Danse Macabre Theatrics & Horse Trade Theater Group Present:

HOUSE OF TRASH

A Cosmically Comic White Trash Musical

Book, Music & Lyrics by TRAV S.D.
Musical Direction by ADAM SWIDERSKI
Designed & Directed by FRANK CWIKLIK
Produced by FRANK CWIKLIK & MICHELE SCHLOSSBERG

JULY 12th Through AUGUST 3rd
FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS
10:30PM

SUNDAYS
8:00PM

Adults $15
$10 Students/Seniors

MEET THE MAGGOT CLAN: Stereotypes? Lowlifes? Lost? Insane? PREACHER BOB MAGGOT: A garbageman by day who moonlights as a Baptist preacher by night, while trying to reconcile the demands of God with the longings of the flesh. TOBY: Sixteen, bitter, angry, confused; lost in a world that doesnât understand him and in love with a married woman at the end of her rope. PUBERT: A glue-sniffing malcontent who sleeps all day and ruts all night with ANGEL, the gothic psychotic alien abductee. MAMA: TV junkie, food glutton; convinced the world is full of ghosts and piss. HAYSEED: A goat-lover and mental deficient more concerned with his obsessions than his family. Plus a cast of supporting characters including CLAUDE, the world's first truck-driving gorilla sidekick.the world's first truck-driving gorilla sidekick.

In Photo: Foreground: Preacher Bob (Josh Mertz), Background, L to R: Angel (Jonatha Bates), Toby Maggot (Dan Maccarone), Pubert (Adam Swiderski), Ray (Joe Popp), Babe (Moira Stone), Ma Maggot (Michele Schlossberg) photograph by FRANK CWIKLIK

Featuring the music of
THE MAGGOT FAMILY RAMBLERS
Peter Herman, Guitar / Bernie Li, Guitar / Greg Solomon, Bass
Jaime Boyaca, Brian Biar: Drums

STARRING: Jonatha Bates, Dan Maccarone, Josh Mertz, Roger Nasser, Joe Popp, Michele Schlossberg, Moira Stone & Adam Swiderski.

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BIOGRAPHIES

TRAV S.D.

FRANK CWIKLIK

MICHELE SCHLOSSBERG-CWIKLIK

BIOGRAPHIES

TRAV S.D. (Playwright) Critic, playwright and performer, Trav S.D. is the author of some 30 plays, 500 songs and 1,500 embarrassing episodes. His plays and solo pieces have been performed at Spa, The Bowery Ballroom, HERE, The Present Company Theatorium, Surf Reality, Collective Unconscious, Todo Con Nada, The St. Marks Theater. He has been M.C. and producer of the American Vaudeville Theatre since 1996; his book on the history of Vaudeville will be published by Faber & Faber in 2004. His freelance writings have been published in American Theatre, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Reason, and Back Stage. His next production, "Sea of Love," will be presented in Soho Think Tank's Ice Factory Festival July 31-August 3, 2002. "House of Trash" was published in "Plays and Playwrights 2001" by The New York Theatre Experience. Four monologues from "House of Trash" have been selected for publication in "The Best Men's Monologues of 2001" by Smith & Krauss.

FRANK CWIKLIK (Director/Co-Producer) 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. 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 (Co-Producer) Michele 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 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 April 2002, she reprised her role as Cat in "The Fugitive Girls!."

Danse Macabre Theatrics, currently a member resident of Horse Trade Theater Group, DMTheatrics 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 - with 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 and sad, DMTheatrics covers the full range of performance expression. DMTheatrics has directly, or in collaboration with other companies, produced almost 20 shows - determined to subsist solely on box office and the support of their audience base. Since its inception, DMTheatrics has produced or co-produced a number of shows in various NYC off-off-Broadway theatres, including Girlsâ School Vampire / Salome / Quicksand / Amazons in Chains / and The Masterworks of Edward D. Wood, Jr. - featuring, among others, Bride of The Monster / The Sinister Urge / Orgy of The Dead and the recently revived hit The Fugitive Girls!.