EVENT: Radio Star (Fringe 2011)

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HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP 

PRESENTS 

TANYA O’DEBRA’S

RADIO STAR

Pictured: Tanya O’Debra Photo credit: Molly Peck 

WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY TANYA O’DEBRA

DIRECTED BY PETER JAMES COOK 

WITH ORIGINAL MUSIC BY ANDREW MAURIELLO 

AS PART OF THE 2011

MONTREAL FRINGE FESTIVAL

JUNE 11-19 @ CABARET DU MILE END 

New York City’s Horse Trade Theater Group will bring comedian Tanya O’Debra’s New York Innovative Theatre Award nominated solo show, RADIO STAR to the 2011 Montreal Fringe Festival. Performances are Saturday, June 11 at 4pm, Sunday, June 12 at 9:30pm, Tuesday, June 14 at 7:15pm, Thursday, June 16 at 11:15pm, Saturday, June 18 at 2:30pm, and Sunday, June 19 at 9pm at Cabaret du Mile End 5240, Avenue du parc Montreal, QC H2V 4G7, Canada. Tickets ($10) are available online at  HYPERLINK "http://www.montrealfringe.ca" www.montrealfringe.ca or by calling 514-849-3378. 

Watch (but mainly listen) as Tanya O’Debra lends her voice to ten different characters while simultaneously staging silly sound effects in this filthy, filthy, dirty 1940’s radio detective spoof. 

“An absurd cross between John Waters and Raymond Chandler…Radio Star is a raunchy blast” Flavorpill NYC

“Side-splittingly hilarious… the best one-woman show I’ve seen” Three Weeks, Edinburgh

“Clever, original, and unflinchingly funny.” Broadway World

“There can be no doubting O’Debra’s talent: she’s got a vocal arsenal that puts Saturday Night Live’s Kristin Wiig to shame.”  New York Press

“With its innovative concept and visual, descriptive script, Radio Star is a goofy take on the classic detective tale, brimming with vulgar tongue-in-cheek humor and colorful characters.”  

New Theatre Corps

[Tanya O’Debra] “is a whiz with the hard-boiled noir zinger.” Cultural Capital

TANYA O’DEBRA is an art-doer. Her play Radio Star was nominated for three New York Innovative Theatre Awards including Outstanding Full Length Script, Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role and Outstanding Original Music. Radio Star has played at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as well as New York venue’s Ars Nova and The Red Room, and is published by Original Works. Formerly of comedic sister act, The O’Debra Twins, Miss O’Debra was the co-host of the popular open mic SHOW AND TELL at the renowned Bowery Poetry Club in New York City for five years. Miss O’Debra was the co-writer, co-director, and a cast member of Fuck You or Dead Pee-holes; an American Tale in 13 Acts, which won the top award at the New York International Fringe Festival. She plays Patrice O’Debra in Straight Up Vampire, a perennial favorite at Joe’s Pub at The Public, and she will be appearing as the Evil Queen in The New Acting Company’s production of Snow White. Miss O’Debra is also the reigning Miss Fag Hag 2010. 

HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work, it has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater.  Horse Trade’s Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent Theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. It is also the home of FRIGID New York – the first and only festival of its kind in New York City. Horse Trade in association with Beth Marshall Presents, will be bringing The Pumpkin Pie Show: Commencement to Orlando in January 2012

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