| A Woman of no Distinction
Claire Fleury
Writer: Claire Fleury
Director: Claire Fleury, Jantien Koenders
A phone rings...she answers. He follows her. Or she's leading? Open the door..come unhinged.
A spine-chilling trip through NYC via her troubled mind, this existential thriller crawls inside your brain and holds you captive until the disturbing end.
International Amsterdam, Netherlands Drama Solo Show
Staycation:Absurdly Surrealist Dream My NYC Story
www.clairefleury.com
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| The Height of the Eiffel Tower
Rambunctious Productions
Writer: Morgana O'Reilly, Co-Creator Abigail Greenwood
Director: Abigail Greenwood
The Hulme Family, West Auckland, New Zealand.
Nathan is thirteen, awkward, fixated with fish.
Anna-Louise is sixteen pregnant and horrible.
Katie's booked her first job as a hand model.
But yea-no-yea Mum's got a life to live too.
International Auckland, New Zealand Solo Show Comedy
Staycation:Absurdly Surrealist Dream In Someone Else's Shoes
www.rambunctious.co.nz
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| Amsterdam Abortion Survivor
Micha Wertheim
Writer: Micha Wertheim
His theatrical and controversial stand-up earned him praise in the Netherlands and at the 2007/8 Edinburgh festival. Wertheim manages to shock and charm his audiences at the same time. His US debut promises hard-hitting cutting edge comedy with an adorable accent.
International Amsterdam, Netherlands Improv/Sketch/Stand-up Solo Show
Staycation:
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Absurdly Surrealist Dream
www.myspace.com/michawertheim
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| And a Wake-up
S&G Productions
Writer: Megan Condit
Director: Bruce Faulk
Johnny was killed in action. So when he returns home, he becomes the hero every town wants - whether he likes it or not. Question is, who’s more damaged? John learns the reason why there’s no place like home.
Local New York, NY Comedy Drama
Staycation:Battleground Tour Absurdly Surrealist Dream
www.andawakeup.com
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| Magical Exploding Boy
Chicago Physical Theater
Writer: Dean Evans
From a child with mind control powers, to an amoeba struggling for life, to a man cast helplessly adrift in outer space, this darkly comical show transforms space to present an original story, reaching beyond the limits of language.
National Chicago, IL Clown/Mask Comedy
Staycation:Outer Space Zombie Adventure Absurdly Surrealist Dream
www.magicalexplodingboy.com
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| Passchendaele
Thesia Arts
Writer: John Rafter Lee
Director: Jonathan Winn and Jessica McVea
World War One. A general, a painter and a Chinese trench digger enter the Western Front. One is cursed, one sees red and one gets blown to fuck. When blood soaks the canvas, how do you paint the portrait?
Local Manhattan, New York Drama Comedy
Staycation:Battleground Tour Absurdly Surrealist Dream
www.passchendaele.org
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| West Lethargy
Page 121 Productions
Writer: Stephen Kaliski
Director: Stephen Kaliski
Old West pioneer lovers hit a roadblock when they collide with two contemporary hedonists searching for a long lost brother. Does the Empire State Building hold the answers? Don't miss this whimsical 2009 Edinburgh Fringe sensation. "A wonderful work." -William Hurt
Local Manhattan, NYC Drama Comedy
Staycation:Absurdly Surrealist Dream Down South & Out West
www.page121productions.org
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| Ruby Wilder
Not Waiting Productions
Writer: Brooke Allen
Director: Eric Hoff
Ruby Wilder believes she has found the man who murdered her sister, Junebug. A mysterious narrator, Ruby's estranged fiance, Junebug, and the killer himself all have their ideas about what Ruby should do with a murderer's fate in her hands.
National Chicago, IL Drama
Staycation:Absurdly Surrealist Dream
www.notwaiting.intuitwebsites.com
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| Two Sizes Too Small
YMMSBILYA Productions
Writer: Jessica Kane
Paul Langley, a powerful stockbroker, is confronted one morning by the unfathomable reality that all his shoes have shrunk two sizes too small. Thus begins this action-packed farce about a seemingly normal guy who becomes impossibly stuck in his life.
Local Brant Lake, NY Comedy Performance Art
Staycation:Absurdly Surrealist Dream Through Heaven & Hell
www.twosizestoosmall.com
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| The River Valeo
DOG P!SS Theatre Company
Writer: Trey Tatum
Director: Bridget Leak
Valerie Scarborough is a drained, lost woman, tired of running. When the TVA empties a nearby lake, her haunted past reemerges, leading Valerie back to her childhood home and to answers that lie buried at the bottom of the lake.
Local Queens, NYC Drama Comedy
Staycation:Down South & Out West Absurdly Surrealist Dream
www.therivervaleo.com
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| The Altoona Dada Society Presents The Velvet Gentleman
Playlab NYC
Writer: Jon Steinhagen
Director: Kevin P. Hale
The Altoona Dada Society makes its New York debut by presenting the unusual life of composer Erik Satie in an extravaganza the Blair County Little Nickel Weekly has called "...a description-defying, decidedly absurdist freefall."
Local Astoria, NYC Comedy Drama
Staycation:Backstage Absurdly Surrealist Dream
www.playlabnyc.org
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| I am what I am not
The New Young Choreographers
Choreographer: Gessica Paperini and Marjolayne Auger
Our esthetic is part of theatre dance.Poetry has inspired our dance movements. We question our identity, our life purpose throught our dance. We resolve those questions celebrating and magnifying our everyday life throught the art of performance.
Local Sunnyside, NYC Dance Performance Art
Staycation:Fantasy Island Excursion Absurdly Surrealist Dream
www.imwhatimnot.blogspot.com
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| Terms of Dismemberment: A Musical with Heart...and Other Body Parts
Dr. Dorothy Productions
Writer: Book & Lyrics by Dorothy Marcic, Music by Frank Sanchez, other lyrics and music by Mehr Mansuri
Director: Director: Hinton Battle, Assistant Director: Kenneth Ferrone
Choreographer: Hinton Battle
The former Pocatello Paper-Pulp-Pageant Princess’s dead husband left three mortgages, Mafia debts. Her choice: sell off daughter’s "assets,” body part by body part, or risk their lives. A dark comedy about the cost of love. An equal opportunity offender.
Local NYC, Manhattan Musical Comedy
Staycation:Absurdly Surrealist Dream Through Heaven & Hell
www.termsofdismemberment.com
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| An Idiot
Propinquity Productions, LLC
Writer: Jeff Tabnick's modern retelling of Dostoevsky's The Idiot
Director: Eric Nightengale
Prince Myshkin runs for U.S. Senate to incite a Christian revolution based on infinite pity. As his fame grows, he helps a recovering alcoholic win a porn-star's love. But when she falls for Myshkin instead, can compassion prevent murder?
Local Brooklyn, NYC Comedy Drama
Staycation:Absurdly Surrealist Dream Literary Lane
www.propinquityproductions.com
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| THE GREAT GALVANI
The Magpies
Writer: Shawn Reddy
Director: Shawn Reddy
"Top Shows of the Year" (Chicago Tribune), Orgie Playwriting Award Winner. A tinkerer of dead frogs dissects everything from the famed Fiji Mermaid to catastrophic loss and the need for bewildering beauty. Inspired by P.T. Barnum and Michel Foucault.
National Chicago, IL Vaudeville/Sideshow/Magic/Burlesque Comedy
Staycation:Through Heaven & Hell Absurdly Surrealist Dream
www.themagpiesproject.com
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| LENNY'S DEAD
Goshen Players
Writer: Alex Giacin
Director: John Long
"My name is Hank. That guy over there, that's Lenny. LENNY'S DEAD. He was killed in Vietnam 1971." Hell of a way to start a show. Wait till you see the end. A poignant,witty drama.
Produced by Goshen Players
Local Goshen, CT Drama FringeHIGH
Staycation:Battleground Tour Absurdly Surrealist Dream
www.goshenplayers.org
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| Playing By Air
Playing By Air Productions
Director: Jacob Weiss
Do..re..mi..fa..getaboutit! A struggling violinist seeks inspiration in the most unlikely of places as he enters a world filled with flying objects, bumbling musicians, and a motif that is just out of reach. Can he learn to play by air?
National Nashville, Tennessee Vaudeville/Sideshow/Magic/Burlesque FringeHIGH
Staycation:Absurdly Surrealist Dream Action Adventure Flick
www.playingbyair.com/fringe
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| The Boogyman Thumbs A-1-A
Glass Bandits
Writer: Carl Holder, Carter Hudson and Eddie Prunoske
Director: Eddie Prunoske
A Floridian love saga that cuts to the heart of the sunshine state. A haunted obituary writer takes you through a surreal lecture-journey documenting his relationship with a serial killer on death row.
Local Brooklyn, NYC Comedy Drama
Staycation:Absurdly Surrealist Dream Down South & Out West
www.gbtheater.com
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| The Pig, The Farmer, and The Artist
Writer: David Chesky
Director: A. Scott Parry, Conductor: Anthony Aibel
To avoid being slaughtered by a lunatic farmer, a flambouyant couple of cows escape and become the rage of the East Village art scene. A well-endowed Pig wants a piece of the action. Will swine become the new black?
Local New York, New York Musical Comedy
Staycation:Absurdly Surrealist Dream To the Zoo
www.davidchesky.com/the_pig_the_farmer_and_the_artist.html
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| the tim&micah project: SELECTION
the tim&micah project
Writer: tim&micah
Director: tim&micah
Choreographer: tim&micah, with additional choreography by joe
dear chris, i just saw this show. i think it was sketch comedy? all i know is it was "physical and fast-paced...bizarre and brainy"(TimeOut), definitely a hilarious manipulation of my emotions. go see it! your friend, steve
National Chicago, IL Comedy Performance Art
Staycation:Absurdly Surrealist Dream Fantasy Island Excursion
www.timandmicahproject.com
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| Ground To Cloud
Christine Marie and Ensemble
Writer: Christine Marie
Director: Christine Marie
Experience a live expressionist film filled with madness, science, and love. Giant cinematic shadow theater, 3D and live performance combine to tell a love story based on lightning. A truly unique theater experience! Set to a live musical score.
National San Fransico/ Los Angeles, CA Puppetry Performance Art
Staycation:Time Traveler Absurdly Surrealist Dream
www.CimiMarie.com
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| Energy Man
hope theatre, inc.
Writer: Ramon Sanchez
Director: Heather McAllister
Super Hero, or just Super Deluded?
Making his way through a maze of memories,
Crushing criminals and recriminations alike,
will Daniel wise up and make it to the other side?
A dramedy about wanting to rise up,
Super Hero style.
Local Manhattan, NYC Comedy Drama
Staycation:Absurdly Surrealist Dream Through Heaven & Hell
www.myspace.com/hopetheatre
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| Have a Nice Life
Nice People Theatre Company
Writer: Music and Lyrics by Conor Mitchell, Book by Matthew Hurt
Director: Bill Felty, Musical Director: Tom Brady
Choreographer: Nancy Berman Kantra
Direct from a sold-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Have a Nice Life was hailed by Fringe Review as "a work of true brilliance." This sharp-witted, therapeutic musical from Philadelphia follows seven eccentric characters during their weekly group therapy session.
National Philadelphia, PA Musical Comedy
Staycation:In Someone Else's Shoes Absurdly Surrealist Dream
www.nicepeopletheatre.org
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| The Conveniences of Modern Living
Writer: Conceived, Developed and Created by Daniel John Kelley and Emily Plumb
Director: Emily Plumb
In the wake of losing a child, a married couple questions their future: Does it lie with a talking dryer? A wise 12-year old boy? Or with leaving behind the memories that still haunt their home?
Local Brooklyn, NYC Comedy Drama
Staycation:Absurdly Surrealist Dream Through Heaven & Hell
www.conveniencesofmodernliving.weebly.com
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| Evan O'Television in Double Negatives
O'Television Productions
Writer: Evan O'Sullivan
Can Evan and Evan’s video-ventriloquism act survive another performance? When two halves of a 15-year-old comedy team are the same person, things can get pretty intense. With every new absurdity it becomes harder for Evan not to blame… himself.
National Boston, MA Comedy Multi-Media
Staycation:Celeb-reality TV in Hollywood Absurdly Surrealist Dream
www.evanotv.com/double_negatives_live
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| FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF WHITE
BROWNSTAR
Writer: Pushkar Sharma and Sathya Sridharan with Music by Chuck Kim
A sci-fi memoir fueled by high-energy comedy! Follow BROWNSTAR as these South Asian poet-performers navigate race and time. Do you dare face the universe's most daunting questions? Prepare to travel FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF WHITE.
National Boston, MA Comedy Spoken Word/Poetry
Staycation:Absurdly Surrealist Dream
www.brownstarrevolution.com
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| The Hyperbolist
bang-bang-fou!
Writer: Joe Mazza
Director: Dan Kerr-Hobert, Joe Mazza, Susan Ask
A grandiloquent farce of tiny proportion-- or-- desperate human probes love with puppets. New York premier of Joe Mazza's phantasmagorically raucous world. _______"Mazza works his puppets with sublime subtlety." --Chicago Reader _______"An archly conceived puppet show." --Chicago Tribune
National Chicago, IL Puppetry Multi-Media
Staycation:Absurdly Surrealist Dream Through Heaven & Hell
www.joemazza.org
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| the means
Plaid Wall
Writer: Kirk White
Director: Jim Wren
"Selling suicide to the sick is easy; pain closes! If I could get a church to go along...we're talking a literal DEATH BOOM!"--Unidentified Executive, Peach Grove Insurance Company. A (not so) sardonic look at the future of healthcare.
Local Jersey City, NJ Comedy Drama
Staycation:Absurdly Surrealist Dream Down South & Out West
www.letuskillyou.com
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| LEMONADE: A Play of World Domination
Writer: Jais Brohinsky
Director: David Denson
When the world’s 2nd and 3rd richest corporate tycoons conspire to commodify the sun, their scheming has unexpected consequences: espionage, mass assassination, global communism… economic armageddon. Where most people see disaster, one sees a world ripe for conquering.
Local Manhattan, NYC Comedy FringeHIGH
Staycation:Wall Street Walking Tour Absurdly Surrealist Dream
www.lemonadetheplay.com
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| Jurassic Parq: The Broadway Musical
Writer: Emma Barash, Marshall Pailet, Bryce Norbitz and Steve Wargo
Director: Marshall Pailet
Choreographer: Hayley Podschun
Boldly re-imagined and retold from the perspective of the dinosaurs, Jurassic Parq is an unflinching meditation on gender, sexual, and racial identity in an evolving landscape destined to stun you with its importance. And you should probably see it drunk.
Local Manhattan, NYC Musical Performance Art
Staycation:Fantasy Island Excursion Absurdly Surrealist Dream
www.JurassicParq.blogspot.com
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| Butterfly, Butterfly, Kill Kill Kill!
Depth Charge
Writer: Patrick Harrison, Music by Dave Harrington
Director: Patrick Harrison
Choreographer: Adam Scott Mazer & Ian Picco
A yakuza noir inspired by Seijun Suzuki’s "incomprehensible" masterpiece, Branded to Kill, featuring monstrous puppets, mystic sex rituals, yellowface assassins, wildly stylized violence, and a live electro-jazz-exotica score. Enter the mad odyssey of the No. 1 Killer.
Local Brooklyn, NYC Performance Art Clown/Mask
Staycation:Action Adventure Flick Absurdly Surrealist Dream
www.myspace.com/depthchargenyc
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| Spellbound- A Musical Adventure
Mind The Art Entertainment
Writer: Paul Deakin & Christian De Gré; Music, Lyrics & Orchestrations by Paul Deakin & Christian De Gré
Set in a fantasy world of magic, wizards, and warlocks, Spellbound is a musical for all ages. Join young Herianne on her adventure through mystical lands to rescue her family and fulfill her life-long ambition to become a Grand Wizard.
Local Manhattan, NYC Musical Drama
Staycation:Absurdly Surrealist Dream Time Traveler
www.SpellboundTheMusical.com
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| Good Good Trouble On Bad Bad Island
Endstation Theatre Company
Writer: Joshua Mikel
Director: Chad Larabee
A bad, bad, Idol challenges good, good Rosa with a series of impossible tasks -- but what happens when she starts doing the impossible?! This wildly inventive adventure finds that sometimes family and good goodness can be found in the most unlikely of places.
National Sweet Briar, VA Comedy FringeJR
Staycation:Fantasy Island Excursion Absurdly Surrealist Dream
www.endstationtheatre.org
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| Return to the Onion Cellar
A Sammie-Lo Production
Writer: Samantha Boyd
Director: Samantha Boyd
In a world made callous by its own invention, patrons flock to an underground speakeasy to cut onions forcing themselves to cry. But in this Dark Rock Musical, some things are better left uncut. Inspired by Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum
Local Chappaqua, NY Musical Drama
Staycation:Absurdly Surrealist Dream Rock and Roll Rebellion
www.ReturnToTheOnionCellar.com
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| Cookie
61 Academy in Association with Partial Comfort Productions
Writer: Chad Beckim
Director: Janet Bobcean
A down-on-his-luck-writer’s notions of race and identity are turned upside down in this darkly comic examination of marriage for hire.
New York, NY Drama Comedy
Staycation:In Someone Else's Shoes Absurdly Surrealist Dream
www.cookietheplay.com
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| Marilyn Monroe: wouldn't it be fascinating
Zambrano Tomorrow
Writer: Erik Zambrano
Director: Erik Zambrano
Using sound, video, and live performance, explore the dream world within relationships and follow baseball great, Joe DiMaggio and glamorous Marilyn Monroe as they fall out of love and pursue their own long lost dream-lovers while on honeymoon in Tokyo.
Local Brooklyn, NYC Performance Art Drama
Staycation:Absurdly Surrealist Dream Backstage
www.erikzambrano.com/upcoming.html
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| Insurmountable Simplicities
All Gone Theatre Company
Writer: Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi, Adapted by Natalie Glick
Director: Natalie Glick
Sometimes it's the simplest things in life that make your head spin. This metaphysical adventure throws an assortment of delightfully quirky characters face to face with philosophical conundrums. And when rationality fails, outrageous possibilities flourish.
Local Brooklyn, NYC Multi-Media Comedy
Staycation:Absurdly Surrealist Dream Time Traveler
www.insimplicitiesplay.com
Tue 18 @ 9:30
Wed 19 @ 4
Sat 22 @ 12
Sun 23 @ 3:45
Thu 27 @ 4
Sat 29 @ 7:15
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| Tangled Yarn
Tangled Lines Productions
Writer: Anais Tekerian, Kevork Mourad
Director: Kevork Mourad
Spurned by fate, Ismene knows no future. Her mother dies, her sister Antigone kills herself, and Ismene must untangle her eccentric grandmothers' stories to discover her destiny. In this multi-media performance, real-time painting propels the story toward its ultimate unraveling.
Local New York, NY Multi-Media Drama
Staycation:Absurdly Surrealist Dream Family Vacation
Sat 15 @ 5:45
Sun 16 @ 9:15
Tue 18 @ 4:45
Thu 20 @ 6:15
Fri 21 @ 7
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| BAGABONES
Jonathan Nosan
Writer: Jonathan Nosan
A contortionist's charming nightmare sets the trip from primal spaces to final spaces and spaces in between. Changing perspectives on the same form brings states of confinement, release, heaven and hell with an ultimately smashing end.
Local Manhattan, NYC Solo Show Performance Art
Staycation:Through Heaven & Hell Absurdly Surrealist Dream
www.bagabones.org
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| Perspectives
Deliquescent Designs
Choreographer: Stephanie Dixon, Mary Beth Leigh, Tamora Petitt, Karen Voyles
Experience a world of unpredictable consequences, chance encounters, and undeniable change. Choreographers from Alaska, Oklahoma, and New York collaborate to create movement inspired by wildfires, divination, and the changing Arctic. Abandon expectations and discover new perspectives.
Local Brooklyn, New York Dance FringeHIGH
Staycation:Absurdly Surrealist Dream Cross Country
www.deliquescentdesigns.com
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| CATS DON'T GRIN
Writer: Francois Carre
Director: Francois Carre, Assistant Director: Ellie Famutimi
A scorching Valentine's Day in New York City. A man in high heels and a woman wearing a man's suit pretend that they just met in the Parisian subway. What if perfect strangers are perfect just because they're strangers?
Local Manhattan, NYC Drama Comedy
Staycation:Absurdly Surrealist Dream Ride the Rollercoaster of Love
www.francoiscarre.com
Sat 15 @ 3:15
Sun 16 @ 12
Wed 19 @ 10:30
Wed 26 @ 5:15
Thu 27 @ 7:30
Fri 28 @ 7
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