The first Pumpkin Pie Show to feature members of One Ring Zero was performed in the Spring of 2000.
"johnny
pumpkinseed" tells the tale of a self-proclaimed pumpkin-humper,
spreading the faith of pumpkin-love to his fellow farmboys...
"correspondence
of corpses" introduces us to Mary Beth Brown, a woman left to wait
for her fisherman husband, lost at sea for years. After spending a countless
number of nights praying for his return, what comes knocking at her
door could be the answer to her dreams... or the beginning of an eternity
of nightmares.
"rodeo
inferno" brings us into the drunken mind of a poor rodeo clown,
so deeply intebriated, he begins to question whether or not he's about
to step out into the stadium... or into the gaping maw of Satan, himself.
"rest
area" details one man's desparate search for his lost daughter,
spending his days stranded at any one of the numerous pit-stops along
the highways of America.
Fox trot is the true story of an 80-year-old woman who fought off a rabid fox by gripping the animal’s neck and holding it at arms length for twelve hours until help arrived; Bladder companion is the story of a chronic bed-wetter who falls through his own urine-soaked floorboards; Chatterbox is a dialogue between a ventriloquist and his dummy, who becomes violently jealous upon discovering a wedding ring on his master’s hand; and Second helping finishes the evening with a tale of a Boy Scout troupes’ metamorphosis into a cannibalistic cult of Bear Scouts.
Kiddie korner features four stories about children at their most hilariously perverse and endearingly disturbed: In RiverTrip, a father drives his children to the spot where their mother recently drowned. In Shoes to Fill, a fuzzy-suited performer uses children's birthday parties as an outlet for his mounting bitterness. Spoonfed (performed by Zach Knighton) is the story of a teenage boy whose sole human contact is with his comatose sister, whose every meal he hand-delivers. And finally, The Pool Witch (originally presented at the 1998 Edinburgh Fringe Festival) is a tale of three adolescent boys navigating the seas of erotic discovery through the deification and vilification of a bleached-blonde water park lifeguard.
