Shipyard souls & a compass rose vol. 1
at The Den at mr. dennehy’s
& Fast food strategies at exchange alley
Thursday, August 22, 2013
We are thrilled to be working with Exchange Alley: an exciting new restaurant on the east side that harkens back to the art and music scenes of the 70’s and 80’s (aesthetics that influenced the creation of Dialogue with Three Chords). Over the last few months, Exchange Alley has featured live music brunches, art openings, and performance art “happenings”, and this month D3C will begin a monthly residency there: every fourth Sunday at 6pm.
For our first matinee, we will be performing “Fast Food Strategies” a play about a family welcoming home a monster. “Fast Food” has been read at the Producer’s Club, Bleecker Street Theatre, and staged in The Den. For this event, we will be debuting a new, expanded version of the play.
Cast list:
George: Greg Skura
Joanne: Jennifer Skura
Tom: Charles Everett
Kathy: Susanne Stewart
Words by Stephen Gracia
Actions by Michael LoPorto
Produced by Edie Nugent
D3C returns for its third year with the start of a season long narrative called Shipyard Souls & A Compass Rose.
Like the previous years, each D3C will showcase a small collection of short plays, but unlike previous seasons, Year Three’s short plays will all hang together to form a larger narrative work. If you come to one night, you will see two to three new plays that can be understood and enjoyed with no knowledge of the previous or successive works necessary. If you join us for the entire season, you’ll see characters and story lines reappear. In effect, the first half of year three will be one full-length play, broken up into self-contained nights. This full-length collection is called “Shipyard Souls & A Compass Rose” and its narrative careens from prohibition era Brooklyn to Tennessee in the 1970’s to a dockside bar in Victorian England. It’s a collection of lost causes and lives lost to the sea, things that more than one character feels “are the only things worth fighting for.”
Dialogue with Three Chords Returns for Our Third Year
That Every Sunken Ship May Rise Again
Whit - Mark Von Sternberg
Haxell – Anthony Marino
Neal – Ian Poake
Captain Albert – Gil Ron
Alex - Stephen Fontana
Annetje – Jessica Bathurst
Threats & Psalms & The Delight of War
Alex - Stephen Fontana
Bone Dry but Determined to Drown
Howe – Sean Meehan
Paula - Kendra Leigh Landon
Alex - Stephen Fontana
Words by Stephen Gracia
Actions by Michael LoPorto
Produced by Edie Nugent
