THE GORGES MOTEL (FringeNYC) NYC Reviews and Tickets

Categories: Comedy, Drama, Local. From Schondeikkan Productions and Miracle or Two Productions in association with The Journey Company. Written by Gretchen Cryer, Lynne Halliday, Isaac Himmelman, James Hindman, Arlene Hutton, Craig Pospisil. Directed by Chris Goutman.

FROM THE ARTIST:
AWARD WINNING WRITERS PRESENT NEW SHORT PLAYS

THE GORGES MOTEL, new short plays set in a run-down motel in upstate New York, will premiere at the 20th Annual New York International Fringe Festival.

Writers include:

• Gretchen Cryer (I'm Getting My Act Together…, Last Sweet Days of Isaac: Obie, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Awards)

• Lynne Halliday (All of the Above; The Barrow Group 24-hour plays)

• Isaac Himmelman (Play With Your Dinner; The Barrow Group 24-hour plays)

• James Hindman (Pete 'n’ Keely: Outer Critics nom. Drama Desk nom.)

• Arlene Hutton (Samuel French Short Play Festival: three-time winner; Last Train To Nibroc: Drama League nom. The first FringeNYC to Off-Broadway transfer)

• Craig Pospisil (Months on End; The Atrain Plays)

Lives intersect in comic and dramatic fashion in a motel that has seen better days in Watkins Glen, New York. Breakups, make-ups, dinosaurs and a drone attack: the ridiculous and the sublime all come together in one unlikely place.

Chris Goutman, a five-time Emmy Award winning producer/director, leads a cast of six playing multiple roles, including daytime TV star Ilene Kristen (One Life to Live, Ryan’s Hope, General Hospital), Jody Flader (Gossip Girl, Law&Order), Cynthia Mace, Dustin Charles, Ryan Wesley Gilreath, Jordan Skinner and Amanda Sykes.

This will be the sixth Fringe appearance for The Journey Company, which holds the distinction of having developed and produced Arlene Hutton’s Last Train to Nibroc, the very first Fringe NYC production to move Off-Broadway. Hutton was also represented in the first New York Fringe Festival twenty years ago with an evening of one acts, I Dream Before I Take the Stand and other plays by Arlene Hutton.