THAT PRETTY PRETTY; OR THE RAPE PLAY
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Our first in-house production!!!!!
Opens Thursday, September 2nd at 8pm, through October 3, 2010
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 7pm
$15-$20
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This hyper-kinetic dark comedy explodes across the stage as 2 ex-strippers on a killing spree of Pro-Lifers fuel the imagination of a Hollywood Dream- Machine wannabe. When the lines between realities blur, only a swift kick to the aesthetic cul-de-sac by icon Jane Fonda can keep worlds from blowing apart! Savaging contemporary mores of truth, art, reality, entertainment, Feminism, beauty, sex, violence and rape.....this high-octane satire bombards the audience with:
"mindlbowing images and soul-crushing language flowing wildly." -Backstage
The New York Times says: "Raunchy, savvy--the twisted, collective subconscious of a culture where girls never stop going wild--an aggressive treatment of the darker corners of the human psyche."
And John Lahr of The New Yorker says: "A submersion in the anarchy of ambivalence: a rant, a riff, a rumble--about our notions of naturalism, objectification, perversity and beauty--high energy punk writing!"
The theatrical smorgasbord includes: death by machete (a Pollackesque splattering of blood!), unauthorized use of the mini-bar, gun-play, corpse-play, pee-play, a soft- shoe number, a soft-core sponge-bath, demonstrations of improvised torture techniques, babes in lingerie Jello-wrestling, the only-ever male fomented incident of child-birth live on stage, and a special guest appearance by feminist Icon Jane Fonda all set to a kick-ass '80's Hair-Metal soundtrack!
Sheila Callaghan's plays have been produced by Soho Rep, Playwrights Horizons, South Coast Repertory, Clubbed Thumb, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre and numerous others. Her many awards include: The Princess Grace Award for emerging playwrights, Jerome Fellowship, Susan Smith Blackburn Award and the prestigious Whiting Award to name a few. Sheila is currently on the faculty of Spaulding University, a resident artist at HERE Art Center and writes for the Showtime series The United States of Tara.
K.D. O'Hair, John Wilson, Kasey O'Brien and Jesse Manson star in The Charnel House's production of THAT PRETTY PRETTY; OR THE RAPE PLAY
Directed by Billy Bermingham (founder of Chicago's notorious and now defunct TORSO Theatre ; writer/director of CANNIBAL CHEERLEADERS ON CRACK and SHANNEN DOHERTY SHOOTS A PORNO : A SHOCKUMENTARY), this hysterical assault on the senses promises to be the FEEL-GOOD RAPE-COMEDY OF THE SEASON!!! ONLY 20 PERFORMANCES, DON'T MISS OUT!
K.D. O'Hair, Victoria Szilagyi and Kasey O'Brien
K.D. O'Hair, John Wilson and Jesse Manson