Liz Eckert (Acting 2008), Laura Heidinger (Acting 2006) and David Skeist (Acting 2006) in KINDERSPIEL, presented by Stolen Chair Theatre Company at the Wings Theater (Feb 3 - March 5)

Two of Stolen Chair’s most acclaimed works, the gender-bent blank verse sex-farce, Stage Kiss, and the debaucherous childs-play cabaret, Kinderspiel, return to NYC for a 6-week repertory run: January 27-March 5.

 Stage Kiss performs: Jan 27-29, Feb 10-11, Feb 24-26 (@8pm), Feb 13 (@2pm) & March 3-5 (@10pm)

Kinderspiel performs: Feb 3-5, 17-19 (@8pm) & Mar 3-5 (@ 7:30pm)

Stolen Chair’s taboo-flaunting Kinderspiel tells the totally fabricated true story of a scandalous Weimar-era club where adults play like children...and customers pay to watch! In Berlin’s seedy and seditious demimonde, five lost souls find each other (and sold-out audiences) when their curious fetish inspires a revolutionary movement. In a 4-star review of the 2007 premiere, Raven Snook (TimeOut NY) praised the "haunting…No Exit decked out in fishnets and art deco decay." More on Kinderspiel

In Stage Kiss, Stolen Chair’s blank verse love letter to Charles Ludlam, two young virgins independently decide to escape the randy Neptune’s annual raping festival by donning drag and taking to the woods where the two newly butched “boys” fall deeply in lust. With a little help from a drunken Venus eager for some boy-on-boy action, the two newly gender- questioning protagonists learn that love is a many gendered thing. In its 2006 premiere, Martin Denton (NYtheatre.com) raved it was "[A] delight from start to finish: it truly puts the 'play' back in play" and offoffonline named it among the year’s best.

Written by Kiran Rikhye
Directed by Jon Stancato
Dramaturgy and Music by Emily Otto
Sets by David Bengali
Costumes by Julie B. Schworm
Lighting Design by Daniel Winters
Tech Direction by Adele Rylands
Props & Graphic Design by Aviva Meyer

Kinderspiel Featuring David Berent*, Liz Eckert, Liza Wade Green, Laura Heidinger*,
David Skeist*

Stage Kiss Featuring Liz Eckert, Liza Wade Green, Andy Phelan*, Noah Schultz

*Appears courtesy of Actors' Equity Association

 for more info or tickets: http://www.stolenchair.org/