Thursday, March 12, 2015

MOONLIGHT AFTER MIDNIGHT FROM FRIGID NEW YORK @ HORSE TRADE


FRIGID NEW YORK @ HORSE TRADE
PRESENTS 

CONCRETE DROPS
PRODUCTION OF

MOONLIGHT AFTER MIDNIGHT

WRITTEN BY MARTIN DOCKERY
DRAMATURGY BY VANESSA QUESNELLE
PERFORMED BY
MARTIN DOCKERY & VANESSA QUESNELLE

NYC PREMIER
APRIL 10 - 30 @ THE KRAINE THEATER


FRIGID New York @ Horse Trade will present Concrete Drops’ production of Moonlight After Midnight written by Martin Dockery and performed by Dockery and Vanessa Quesnelle, April 10-30 at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery) with performances 
Friday, April 10, 17, & 24 and 
Thursday, April 30 at 8pm. 

Tickets ($18) may be purchased in advance at 



The performance runs 60 minutes, with no intermission. 


A mysterious man and a beautiful woman meet in a midnight hotel room to play out scenes from a relationship. Love and loss, memory and intrigue intertwine in the luminal space of a magical hotel room bathed in moonlight.


Moonlight After Midnight debuted at the Ottawa Fringe Festival in 2014, where it received *Best Original Show”, it went on to tour to festivals in Winnipeg, Edmonton, Vancouver, and London. Following its run at The Kraine, it is scheduled to perform at the Orlando and Cincinnati Fringe Festivals in May and June. 

  
Some critical notes:

“This play is everything I’ve ever wanted out of theatre. To say that Martin Dockery and Vanessa Quesnelle’s chemistry is riveting would be an understatement. Don’t miss this play.” Capital Critics Circle, Ottawa, ON

“This mystery about relationships tickled my brain and captivated me from start to finish. The vivid performances by Dockery and Quesnelle, and the chemistry between them, cannot be denied.” Plank Magazine, Vancouver, BC

“The complexity of the story combined with the excellent character work allows this performance to engage both the mind and the soul… These two actors really bring something beautiful to the stage, a natural chemistry.” New Ottawa Critics, ON


MARTIN DOCKERY (Writer/Performer) is a frequent performer in New York’s storytelling scene. Over the past several years, he’s created six monologues, performing them across North America, the UK, and Australia. His four autobiographical, theatrical monologues Wanderlust, The Surprise, (both directed by Jean-Michele Gregory), The Bike Trip, The Holy Land Experience, and his two fictional monologues, Bursting Into Flames and The Dark Fantastic have enjoyed successful runs in New York City, San Francisco, Orlando, London, Toronto, Winnipeg, Fresno, Charleston, Minneapolis, Boulder, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Calgary, Victoria, Vancouver, Bellingham, Seattle, New Orleans, Phoenix, & Adelaide (where he won the 2011 Critics Circle Award), and The Melbourne Comedy Festival. He also headlined The London Storytelling Festival. He has an MFA in playwriting from Colombia University.

VANESSA QUESNELLE (Dramaturg/Performer) has toured with Concrete Drops for the last four years. Bringing Oh, That Wily Snake!, The Abyss Burrow, The Pit and Moonlight After Midnight to theatres in Ottawa, Fresno, Orlando, London, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Victoria, Vancouver, Bellingham, and New York City. Some of her ‬ ‪previous acting credits include Amy in Company (Fountainhead Productions), Nurse Wilson in 7 Stories, Pierrette in Les Belles Soeurs, Helena in Midsummer Night’s Dream (Passionfool Theatre), Suzanne in Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Margot Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank (Theatre Woodstock), for which she was awarded Best Supporting Actress at WODL Festival, Bottom in Midsummer Night’s Dream (CAST Theatre Company) and Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie (QP Productions).  

CONCRETE DROPS Martin Dockery and Vanessa Quesnelle founded Concrete Drops Theatre Company in 2011. It is their mission to engage, entertain and challenge audiences with theatrical productions that range from the comically absurd to the dramatic, to take audiences on a journey that is both fanciful and thought provoking. Since it’s inception, Concrete Drops has created, performed and toured four shows across Canada and the US. Three of them being two person plays starring the company’s founders Martin Dockery and Vanessa Quesnelle ( Oh, That Wily Snake!, The Pit, Moonlight After Midnight) and the fourth is a solo show starring Vanessa Quesnelle ( The Abyss Burrow). 


FRIGID New York is a theater development group with a focus on new work that produces a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater every season. FRIGID’s Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. FRIGID New York grew out of the annual FRIGID Festival, the first and only festival of its kind in New York City to offer artists 100% of their box office proceeds, and Horse Trade Theater Group, a self-sustaining theater development and management group.




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