Hell in a Handbag Productionsis pleased to continue its 2024/25 Season with the world premiere of Scary Town, a semi-autobiographical tale of a little brown bunny that uncovers a secret that rocks his world, by Artistic Director David Cerda and directed by Cheryl Snodgrass.
Merry Town is the happiest town where all the animals live in harmony and wear cute outfits. Deven Bunny has always believed this because that’s what he was told- but the discovery of a family secret changes Deven’s world. Scary Town combines beloved illustrated story books, melodrama, and a touch of David Lynch resulting in a tale filled with Cerda's signature dark humor and poignancy.
Scary Town is an adult children’s play about growing up in a lie and living not so happily ever after.
Scary Town is our first production to be performed in Handbag's own space, THE CLUTCH, at 4335 N.Western Avenue (close to Montrose) It's an intimate space with 44 seats.
Handbag’s 23rd Season concludes this summer with ANNIE COKELEY, a rootin'-tootin', brand-spankin' new dark comedy by Ensemble Member Tyler Anthony Smith, the undomesticated homosexual responsible for POOR PEOPLE! The Parody Musicaland FRANKENSTREISAND.
Directed by Stephanie Shaw,this one-act play (you're welcome) stars Smith as famous American sharpshooter Annie Oakley, who is spending her summer of 1903 on sabbatical from show business, sunbathing her days away in the Wild Wild West. That is until newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst publishes a rumor that Annie is in prison for robbing a bank to support her cocaine addiction. Here's the thing: Annie sleepshoots instead of sleepwalks, refuses to cater to her husband Frank's foot fetish and has a tendency to drink badger urine – but she doesn't do nose candy! Or does she? Unwilling to back down, pandemonium ensues as Annie, Frank, their one-eyed maid Ethel, Annie's stillborn brother Aardvark, and Belladonna, an Italian psychic, lose their minds in an attempt to clear the Oakley name.
ANNIE COKELEY is our first production to be performed at the Bramble Arts Loftin Andersonville. It's a beautiful new space with 99 seats.
