BITE
** by acclaimed Circle playwright Suzanne Bachner **
Extended through December 29th!

Dysfunctional Theatre, The John Montgomery Theatre Company and Horse Trade have announced another extension of the wildly popular sex farce BITE. This new comedy of dentistry and domination is written and directed by Suzanne Bachner, author of the Off-Broadway hit Circle. Performances, which began June 16th at The Red Room, have been extened through December 29th. The company will celebrate its 6 month anniversary following its December 15th performance.

In BITE, comic sex farce meets choose-your-own-adventure. It intertwines the tales of two competing dentists, two dominatrixes, and a Southern belle. The action begins in a sterile 5th Avenue dentist's chair and ends down in the cavities of a secret dominatrix-run dungeon with the audience in control all the way. Unlike most "interactive" theater experiences, BITE is intricately scripted and meticulously plotted with multiple outcomes at every turn. Never the same show twice, you’ll want to keep coming back to get a different taste with every BITE.

The production stars Bob Brader, Robert Brown, Jennifer Gill, Theresa Goehring, Amy Overman, Justin Plowman with Naomi Warner and Peter Schuyler. BITE features dramaturgy by Rick Vomdran and Margaret Stockton, with sound design by Alexander R. Warner and costume, prop & mask design by Deborah Alves, and set by Charles Townsend Wittreich, Jr.

Suzanne Bachner’s award-winning play Circle ran for five months Off-Broadway. Her plays include Icons & Outcasts, Don’t Let Destiny Push You Around, Alexandra Triptych, Jump Start, Alice Through the Looking Glass and Flirting with Reality. She studied playwriting with Romulus Linney and received her MFA from The Actors Studio Drama School at The New School. She has received four OOBR Awards and is a member of The Dramatists Guild.

Dysfunctional Theatre was founded in 1997 as a collective committed to producing fast-paced, pop culture-based shows that experiment with the structure of theater. Among its past 21 productions are The Eight: Reindeer Monologues; Hoover: A Love Story; Real Live Sex Onstage ; Dario Fo's We Won't Pay, We Won't Pay; I Am Star Trek; Sir John Wilmot's Sodom or the Quintessence of Debauchery; and a workshop production of BITE in April 2005 at The Red Room. Dysfunctional Theatre has been a Horse Trade resident company since 2001.

The John Montgomery Theatre Company was founded in 1994 by Patrick Hillan. JMTC has produced over 40 productions in New York and is currently a resident company at Horse Trade. Past productions include the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway production of Circle; Shakespeare’s Othello starring Geoffrey Owens; a six month run of Icons & Outcasts and the New York premiere of When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout directed by Trish Minskoff and starring Roberta Maxwell.

Looking forward to opening its 9th season this fall, Horse Trade has become a vital part of the downtown scene through its commitment to producing a varied performance series, readings, workshops and fully realized productions. In addition to managing three performance venues, Horse Trade is represented by a collective of artists, each with their own unique voice.

BITE runs through October 20th, Fridays at 10:30pm. The Red Room is located at 85 East 4th Street (between 2nd & 3rd Aves). Tickets are $20 available at 212-868-4444 or HorseTRADE.info.