Horse Trade Theater Group & DANSE MACABRE THEATRICS Present: "KOOKAMONGA FALLS"

The World Premiere of a new comedy
written by TODD MILLER
Directed by MICHELE SCHLOSSBERG
Produced by FRANK CWIKLIK & MICHELE SCHLOSSBERG

With opening attraction "AMERICA 2.0"
Written by Todd Miller
Designed/Directed by Ian W. Hill
Puppet construction by Berit Johnson
Sound Design by Ian W. Hill and YOUTHQUAKE!

Begins FRIDAY, MAY 10th
THURS, FRI, SAT
May 10 to June 1st
8:00PM

ONE MATINEE ONLY
5:00PM . . SUN, JUNE 2nd

$15/$10 Students/Seniors

From the folks who brought you "The Fugitive Girls!" and "The Stranger"

Kookamonga Falls : It's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to Kookamonga Falls. Upstate. Tucked away in the forests. Some folks around here say the woods are haunted. It's said that at night, you can see the spirits of our gorilla ancestors, drifting through the woods. . . Evil villain Rudolph Von Hackemore. . . cunningly disguised as a woman with an Adam's apple and an eye patch . . is out to destroy his hated twin brother Peter Von Hackemore, a brilliant and terribly repressed surgeon hounded by his least favorite patient. Then there's the quite frigid Dr. Ilsa Gruenwald, Peter's paramour, who is in love with Rudolph . . .and the woman Rudolph has become! And just who is the Mysterious Woman? Oh, and did we mention the chain-smoking narrator with the bad attitude? Or the popcorn-eating Gorilla? Or the movie theater that shows only intermission loops? It's all business as usual for Kookamonga Falls, the looniest long-running soap opera youâve never seen. Presented as a live television production, complete with warm-up acts and studio audience, this madcap romp is exactly the kind of material audiences have come to expect from DMTheatrics: unhinged, unpredictable, and highly unusual. SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION . . "America 2.0" . . a puppet show extravaganza about the adventures of Brad, former actor, now salesman, and his determined efforts to return home from a wrong turn in Mexico. See him befriend South American supervillains, Tyrannosaurus Rexes, and many others! Longtime DMTheatrics collaborator Ian W. Hill designs and directs this slice of sublime ridiculousness.

In Photo: photograph by FRANK CWIKLIK

Starring: PETER B. BROWN . . BRYAN ENK . . IAN W. HILL . . MICHELE SCHLOSSBERG. . MOIRA STONE

BIOGRAPHIES

TODD MILLER

MICHELE SCHLOSSBERG-CWIKLIK

FRANK CWIKLIK

BIOGRAPHIES

TODD MILLER (Playwright) plays include "The Teeth of God," "Hurricane Soup," "Das Presley," "Mose the Fireman" and the Christmas mini-musical "Revenge of the Magi" (with composer Joel Derfner). He also wrote a teleplay for Rock the Vote, which aired on MTV. In his spare time, Todd designs games and writes ad copy for his friends.

MICHELE SCHLOSSBERG-CWIKLIK (Director/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!.

FRANK CWIKLIK (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, whose guidance helped DMTheatrics rapidly build a huge repertory and a dedicated following. 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. Danse Macabre Theatrics, currently resident artists with Horse Trade Theater Group, 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 by way of a common sense approach to storytelling . . 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, 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 "Girls 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."