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David Crabb Bad Kid

Written and performed by David Crabb
Directed and co-written by Josh Matthews
October 28 - November 12, 2011
Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00PM
Adults $15; Seniors/Students $10



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Bad Kid is the story of a Goth boy who dreamed of being anywhere but the middle of Texas in 1991. Preferably somewhere in London wearing fishnet gloves and a cape while standing alone in the rain. In this funny and moving examination of rebellion, sexuality and friendship, David Crabb reflects on what it means to grow up different and alone, just like everyone else. Bad Kid is based on the true story of a Texas teen who navigates his outcast adolescence in a goth-obsessed, drug-fueled haze.

Bad Kid is a candid and hysterically honest examination of what it means to grow up different and alone. "As Goth kids, we thought that everything honest was rooted in death, even our sexual urges and our concept of 'fun,'" said Crabb. "But as I grew up I could sense there was another 'freak' beneath the one I contrived as a 15 year-old who wore dog collars and black nail polish; the lifelong freak, not the temporary one. I wanted to find out who he was."

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For more information about BAD KID visit the official website at www.badkidtheshow.com.

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David Crabb is an actor, writer, two-time Moth Slam Champion, producer/co-host of the storytelling series, "Ask Me Stories," and co-producer of the popular storytelling podcast and live show, "Risk!" A proud member of the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway Axis Company since 2001, David has starred in and developed plays at Axis Theatre in NYC and abroad with the company in Paris and Edinburgh, Scotland. Productions include: Not Yet Diagnosed (Nervous) 1918 (Theatermania Top 10 of 2005); A Glance at New York (Axis Company NYC and Assembly Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival); and the long-running, downtown cult sensation, Hospital. Other NYC theater credits include: And I Love You at HERE; National Prayer Breakfast at Actors' Playhouse; Field of Schemes with Under the Table Company; Winnebago Del Fuego Live at the UCB and Rififi/Cinema Classics; and Fresh Meat with Catie Lazarus at Ars Nova.

Bad Kid is produced by Axis Company with Lighting Design by David Zeffren & Amy Harper and Sound Design by Steve Fontaine.

You can find more information about this production at www.badkidtheshow.com.


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