News: FRIGID New York Presents "The Trash Garden" Adelaide Fringe Fundraising Performance Jan. 31st

Luis Feliciano (rear) and Kristen Hoffman (front)
After winning Best Play in the 2024 NYC Fringe (you can read our review here), The Trash Garden, written and directed by Padraig Bond, will be presented by FRIGID New York as a fundraising performance on its way to the Adelaide Fringe Festival. The performance will be presented at UNDER St Marks (94 St Marks Pl, New York NY, 1009) on Saturday, January 31st at 7:00pm. Tickets are $18 on a sliding-scale and are available for advance purchase at www.frigid.nyc. The performance will run approximately 60 minutes.

Padraig Bond (Playwright/Director) is an award-winning playwright, director, actor, and producer from New York City. He is the author of The Climate Fables, rated 5 stars in the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Best Play winner at the 2024 New York City Fringe. He is currently a resident playwright at FRIGID New York and has worked at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the United States Congress, and at Somboon Legacy Foundation in Thailand, caring for old and sick elephants. 

In The Trash Garden, part of the Climate Fables cycle, while living in a wasteland of garbage, Atlas and Evelyn play games and reinvent theater to cope with being the last people on Earth.

The Trash Team is gearing up to perform at Adelaide International Festival Fringe in Australia this March, and you can support them by attending this show, and by donating to their Kickstarter HERE!

The cast will feature Luis Feliciano (Celine Song’s Family at La MaMa, The Climate Fables, If I Did, You Deserved It), Kristen Hoffman (Celine Song’s Family at LaMaMa, Winning is Winning, The Climate Fables, If I Did, You Deserved It), and Padraig Bond (The Climate Fables, Hamlet, The Good-Story Murders at Japan Society, If I Did, You Deserved It, OYL’s Antigone toured across Zagorochoria, Greece).

The creative team includes Padraig Bond (Playwright/Director/Producer), Jess Lauricello (Stage Manager/Production Manager/Dramaturg/Producer), Bailey Bennett (Sound Designer), Luis Feliciano (Producer), and Kristen Hoffman (Producer).

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