Area Premiere

For Mature Audiences Only

Core Performance Manufactory presents Freakshow by Carson Kreitzer at the Bath House Cultural Center, 521 East Lawther, Dallas 75218, April 30 - May 17. For directions to the Bath House Cultural Center, see http://www.bathhousecultural.com/contactus.html.

The show runs every Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8pm, with opening night on Wednesday, April 30. Tickets are $20, and may be purchased at coreperformancemanufactory.com or by calling 214-893-3009.

The creative team includes Elizabeth Ware, director; Kim Corbet, Sound; and actors Morgana Shaw, Lulu Ward, Kent Williams, Daniel States, Shane Hurst, Sachin Patel and Leslie Patrick.

Director Elizabeth Ware says “Freakshow examines otherness and the idea of being an outsider, something we all can relate to. Rejected by the “normal” world, these people have created their own family. Their home is not always safe. They love each other and betray each other. They can be monsterous. They are like any other family.”

Freakshow is for mature audiences. While there is no graphic violence or sexuality, the language is explicit. Characters tell of past rape, sexual experiences, isolation and emotional torture.

“The play is a unique blend of beauty, poetry, and raw animalism. I am fascinated to explore Kreitzer’s world where the profane and the divine coexist so effortlessly. The raw elements of the play - the sex and the violence - exist only in language. These elements are not acts on stage, they are memories recalled, and told.” says Elizabeth Ware.

Facts

For Mature Audiences Only
Producer: Core Performance Manufactory
Show: Freakshow by Carson Kreitzer
Dates: Show runs April 30 - May 17
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8pm, with opening night on Wednesday, April 30.
Venue: Bath House Cultural Center, 521 East Lawther, Dallas 75218
For directions, see: http://www.bathhousecultural.com/contactus.html
Tickets: $20

Call 214-893-3009 for tickets, or visit coreperformancemanufactory.com.

Director: Elizabeth Ware

Sound: Kim Corbet

Actors:
Morgana Shaw
Lulu Ward
Kent Williams
Daniel States
Shane Hurst
Sachin Patel
Leslie Patrick

Cast, and the playwright’s character descriptions:

Amalia, The Woman With No Arms Or Legs (Morgana Shaw)

Judith, The Dog-Faced Girl - Rather, ex-the dog-faced girl. Older now, she no longer performs, but takes care of Amalia, the new star of the show (Lulu Ward)

Mr Flip, The ringmaster / owner (Kent Williams)

Matthew, Whole. He cleans the animal’s cages (Daniel States)

The Pinhead (Shane Hurst)

Aquaboy, The Human Salamander In a Tank of Water (Sachin Patel)

The Girl (Leslie Patrick)

Carson Kreitzer’s The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer won the Lois and Richard Rosenthal New Play Prize, the American Theatre Critics’ Steinberg New Play Citation, the Barrie Stavis Award, and is published in Smith and Kraus’ New Playwrights: Best Plays of 2004 and by Dramatic Publishing. Self Defense, or death of some salesmen has been produced in Providence, Minneapolis, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Other work includes 1:23, The Slow Drag (New York and London), Valerie Shoots Andy, Heroin/e (Keep Us Quiet), Freakshow, Dead Wait, and Take My Breath Away, featured in BAM’s 1997 Next Wave Festival. Ms. Kreitzer has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, Theatre Communications Group, and the Jerome and McKnight foundations, as well as a BA from Yale University and an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers, U.T. Austin. She is a resident playwright at New Dramatists, an associated artist with Clubbed Thumb and New Georges, and a member of The Playwrights’ Center, the Dramatists Guild, The Fire Department, and the Workhaus Collective. She is currently under commission from The Guthrie Theater, Chicago’s Next Theatre, and the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.