Christel Bartelse takes the audience on a very different kind of wedding and honeymoon in Frigid New York show ONEymoon
Kraine Theater, 85 East Fourth St.
Red Room, 85 East Fourth St.
Under St. Marks, 94 St. Marks Pl.
February 23 – March 6, $10-$16
www.frigidnewyork.info
The fifth annual Frigid New York offers lovers of indie experimental theater the chance to come in from the cold on the Lower East Side to experience short bursts of low-budget productions, with all tickets a mere $10-$16. Taking place at the Kraine Theater, the Red Room, and Under St. Marks, the official Fringe Festival presentation features thirty shows all running less than an hour, from emerging and established artists who will garner all the profits. Under St. Marks is home to the most provocatively titled shows, including Kevin J. Thornton’s I Love You (We’re F*#ked), Bricken Sparacino’s I’m Not Sure I Like the Way You Licked Me, Dutch Girl’s ONEymoon (A Honeymoon for One), and Tania Katan’s Saving Tania’s Privates. The Kraine Theater is getting in on the action as well, with Matthew Wells’s femme fatale noir homage Scarlet Woman, Ben Thompson’s bromance Fucking Girls, and Una Aya Osato’s one-woman show JapJAP; even Scott Durwood’s tamer-sounding Hi, How Can I Help You? is about dominatrixes. Not wanting to be left out in the cold, the Red Room is offering Jennifer Lieberman’s one-woman show, Year of the Slut. But not all of the productions deal with sex and sexuality or contain double-entendre titles; there’s also My Pal Izzy — The Early Life and Music of Irving Berlin, John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Wonder Woman: A How to Guide for Little Jewish Girls, Fate, Fury, and Musical Theatre: A Kind of Cabaret, and Yippie! Founded in 2007 by Horse Trade and EXIT Theatre, Frigid New York proclaims, “New York City is an indisputable hotbed of groundbreaking talent. We’re proud to once again provide this opportunity for ingenuity to thrive in a venue that values freedom of expression and artistic determination.”