The Cheaters Club – Location, Tickets, Reviews
Photos by Russ Rowland
The Cheaters Club refers to three siblings who go on an annual vacation for the purpose of cheating on their spouses. This year, with a new recruit, they travel to Savannah, Georgia, also known as “the most haunted city in America.” Although they are eager to add some supernatural spice to their weekend of indulgence, the group is utterly overwhelmed by the ghost-haunted saga of the family who runs the inn.
While the formal theater critics weren’t kind to this production, it was very well received by reviewers and bloggers from the indie theater scene. All of those reviews, the good and the bad, are linked to below. From our perspective, The Cheaters Club is goofy, scary entertainment with lots of popular appeal. It is quite a rarity to see a successfully-suspenseful ghost story on stage. We heard genuine shrieks of shock and fright from the audience at the performance we saw.
Maxamoo hosted its third Indie Theater in NYC Maxamoo Meetup at The Cheaters Club. The producing company, The Amoralists, extended to Maxamoo and all of our guests discounted tickets.
LOCATION
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street
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RUNNING TIME
2 hours 30 minutes, 1 intermission
TICKETS
$50 (click here for tickets)
From September 3 – 22, 2013, $20 tickets are available 20 minutes before show time. Availability is limited. For more information visit 20at20.
DATES
Performances through September 21
REVIEWS
The L Magazine
What is The Cheaters Club about? It’s about a playwright feeling his oats and cooking up a spicy entertainment for his actor friends, maybe after binge-watching a season or two of American Horror Story.
New York Theatre Review
A lot of this production is about shrieks, thrills, and laughs, but like so much of The Amoralists’ work, it also asks questions that dig deeper. Get ready.
New York Post
Southern-fried Gothic comedy ‘The Amoralist’ DOA
New York Times
Digging up a family tale in graveyards
Theatermania
For all its buffoonery, The Cheaters Club offers some surprisingly wise lessons about the consequences of obsessing over human error.
Theater Pizzazz
The real standouts were Derek Ahonen’s terrific script and adept hand at direction; and Alfred Schatz’s magnificent set
Time Out
After intermission the plot bogs down in too many threads and schlocky detours, dissipating any goodwill you might feel for the troupe’s grungy maximalism.
Village Voice
An Italian guy, a gay guy, a black guy, and a girl show up in Savannah looking for action. If that sounds like the setup for a bad joke, it is—or rather, it’s the setup for two and a half hours of bad jokes. . .
NYTheater
Ahonen goes beyond by not only giving us a good time but also a theme to think on.
CAST & CREW
(partial list)
Written and directed by Derek Ahonen
Featuring Byron Anthony, Wade Dunham, Edgar Eguia, James Kautz, David Lanson, Sarah Lemp, Judy Merrick, David Nash, Cassandra Paras, Matthew Pilieci, James Rees, Dan Stern, Kelley Swindall, Anna Stromberg, Jordan Tisdale, Vanessa Vaché, Charlie Chase, Eloise Edwards, Janette Johnston, Mackenzie Knapp, Zen Mansley, Serena Miller, Kat Murphy, Penny O’Brien, Ben Reno, Haley Sullivan