The Mini-Fridge Elevenses*
11 Questions, 11 Answers … ZERO calories, and 100% YUMMY!
*Elevenses is a snack that is similar to afternoon tea, but eaten in the morning and might consist of some cake or biscuits with a cup of coffee or tea. The name refers to the time of day that it is taken: around 11 am.
Bare.
Produced by: Your Mom Presents
Raw stories paired with raw burlesque. Bare. will rip the heart out of your chest, place it lovingly back in, and proceed to do it all over again.
Show Times:
- Sunday July 1st @ 9PM
Answers by: Peter Aguero
(creator, curator, host )
1. Your tag line is featured above, so we know the PR version of what this play is about. But when you talk to your family and friends, how do you explain the show to them?
Peter: My favorite stories are the hardest to tell. My favorite burlesque acts are usually the most emotionally complicated. With this show, I’ve combined the two. Each story is paired with a burlesque act that comments on the shared theme.
2. Here’s a scenario: After the show some audience members go have a drink. What’s the part of the show you hope they’re discussing?
Peter: I hope that they are too emotionally worn out to discuss anything.
3. What drives your show – character, theme or plot?
Peter: Theme.
4. What’s the one thing someone said about the show so far that made you the most proud?
Peter: I’ve had more than one person tell me that they hated me for making them confront their own demons while watching the show.
5. Let’s fantasize for a moment. Let’s take the “off-off” off. Imagine this show is on Broadway. Would that change the production itself?
Peter: Nope. Simple is best. Though I’d probably blow the cash on fireworks and pyro for no reason.
6. Taking that one step further – after paying everyone what they’re worth of course, what is the most lavish, luxurious, frivolous thing you would spend money on if there was no constraints? (Think of the helicopter in Miss Saigon).
Peter: I’d buy myself a robotic mech suit with rocket launchers and a whiskey dispenser.
7. Is there a scene, a moment, anything that gets a completely different reaction depending on the audience that night?
Peter: Each production has different story/burlesque pairings so every time we do it, there’s a different reaction.
8. What’s your favorite line from the show?
Peter: ”Thank you for coming” – that means that we made it through alive.
9. Is the world of this play sustainable outside a theatre? In other words … do you think people live the way the characters do? Would you want a world where they do?
Peter: I tell the truth (or as close to it as possible) in my stories. I also spend most of my time with burlesque performers. Whether or not my lifestyle is sustainable is still under review.
10. You scan the audience and you see a face that stops you dead in your tracks – who is it? And why are you shocked?
Peter: My dad. I tell a lot of stories about him and he wouldn’t be pleased about any of them.
11. Time for Elevenses! Go to the mini-fridge of your fantasy hotel. What’s your dream 11:00am snack?
Peter: Coconut Macaroons and a cup of coffee.
Thanks, Peter, for having your Elevenses with us here at THM! We can’t wait to see Bare.!
If you’d like to catch Bare. at The Mini-Fridge Festival find out more by clicking this link.
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HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP IN ASSOCIATION WITH FRIGID NEW YORK PRESENT THE 2012 MINI-FRIDGE
JUNE 28 – JULY 4 @ UNDER ST. MARKS The mini-festival will play at UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place between 1st Avenue and Avenue A) June 28-July 4. Tickets ($15/$12 students & seniors) are available online or by calling 212-868-4444.
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