About This Show
Factory Theater has a three-way with Ménage à Trailer, three
one act plays by Laura McKenzie and Mark Sam Rosenthal, directed by Nick Digilio. Featuring live music from The Guzzlerz.
A night of three one-act plays rips the siding off of three different trailers to expose the rednecks, refugees and reprobates that dwell within. “Are You There, Jesus? It’s Us, Trailer Trash” – previously produced at the Upright
Citizens Brigade Theater in New York as a winning selection
in its annual one-act play festival – examines what happens
when you mix an intervention, a hurricane and crystal
methamphetamine. Grenada vets Earl and Leon almost come to
blows over their differing accounts of that bloody hellfire
of a war until a wise old woman and a flying filet-o-fish
sandwich teach them the true meaning of friendship. In “Look
Homeward, Trailer,” a gang of gay friends claims the right to
return to its suburban homeland – just in time for
Thanksgiving dinner. It’s a road trip play, complete with a
hi-jacked Hollywood movie trailer, the requisite cross-
country police chase, and a circuit party in a Texas truck
stop parking lot. “This Trailer’s Rockin’, Don’t Come A
Knockin'” features the Caged Birds – a women’s prison band
that’s forced to rehearse in the conjugal visit trailer –
rocking for their freedom in the “Battle-of-the-Bands-Full-
Release-I’ll-be-Home-for-Christmas-Contest”. A transsexual
corrections officer gets the big snip, and shows a reluctant
lady con that each of us is responsible for his/her/its own
destiny.
Complete with a live band, Greek Chorus, and
Britney Spears life-size cardboard cutout, Ménage à Trailer
will leave you screaming “Hit Me Trailer, One More Time!”
SPECIAL FACTORY BENEFIT GALA PERFORMANCE Saturday November
13th at 8pm