8pm start time.
Four short plays by Stephen Gracia, live music by Tommy Lombardozzi, and a talk back with the playwright, director, and actors.
FREE!
($3 Suggested Donation)
Thursday, July 28, 2011
TONIGHT!
The first Dialogue with Three Chords at Mr. Dennehy's Irish Pub, 63 Carmine Street, NYC.
8pm start time.
Four short plays by Stephen Gracia, live music by Tommy Lombardozzi, and a talk back with the playwright, director, and actors.
FREE!
($3 Suggested Donation)
8pm start time.
Four short plays by Stephen Gracia, live music by Tommy Lombardozzi, and a talk back with the playwright, director, and actors.
FREE!
($3 Suggested Donation)
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Tiny Hooks - Notes on the First Piece
The piece that opens this Thursday's D3C, "Tiny Hooks", was written to solve a problem.
The four plays that comprise the inaugural night of D3C are part of a slightly larger collection, currently titled "We Lose Our Place & Begin Again", and the first play in this collection ends with the stage covered in thick, gray dust. This, of course. makes staging these plays difficult. "Tiny Hooks" was one the first plays I've ever written with a specific goal in mind: to get the stage cleaned up. It begins:
Simple enough, really, the actors in the previous piece leave their set behind: a table and two chairs, an ungodly amount of dust, and it's up to the next actor to set things right (or as close as possible) as she delivers a monologue on the nature and limits of mature love.
Thematically, it follows the piece before it, "We Find Our Own Level" (previously known as "Assfuck Brooklyn" for reasons of rebellious youth), in that it is tied to a very specific New York tragedy without directly addressing it. It's a part of the landscape. And in most plays, landscape and environment are characters themselves, but I like to think of them as characters the way Pinter-esque dread is its own character -- lingering just off-stage, psychologically weighing everyone down.
Now, the follow-up, the afterthought, the what-the-hell-are-we-going-to-do-about-all-that-dust fix, has become the starting point, and I get to see it stand on its own.
Dust or no, the dread's still there, I think.
- Stephen
The four plays that comprise the inaugural night of D3C are part of a slightly larger collection, currently titled "We Lose Our Place & Begin Again", and the first play in this collection ends with the stage covered in thick, gray dust. This, of course. makes staging these plays difficult. "Tiny Hooks" was one the first plays I've ever written with a specific goal in mind: to get the stage cleaned up. It begins:
Setting: A stage covered with dust.
Two chairs tipped over and laying on the floor.
Emily enters
She has a blue-tooth headset in.
She begins sweeping up the dust and speaking into the headset. Simple enough, really, the actors in the previous piece leave their set behind: a table and two chairs, an ungodly amount of dust, and it's up to the next actor to set things right (or as close as possible) as she delivers a monologue on the nature and limits of mature love.
Thematically, it follows the piece before it, "We Find Our Own Level" (previously known as "Assfuck Brooklyn" for reasons of rebellious youth), in that it is tied to a very specific New York tragedy without directly addressing it. It's a part of the landscape. And in most plays, landscape and environment are characters themselves, but I like to think of them as characters the way Pinter-esque dread is its own character -- lingering just off-stage, psychologically weighing everyone down.
Now, the follow-up, the afterthought, the what-the-hell-are-we-going-to-do-about-all-that-dust fix, has become the starting point, and I get to see it stand on its own.
Dust or no, the dread's still there, I think.
- Stephen
Sunday, July 17, 2011
D3C - Cast List and Featured Musician
The first D3C will feature the acting talents of
Matthew Ferretti, Dan Graff, Kendra Leigh Landon, TJ Lombardo, Sean Meehan, Ridley Parson, and Susanne Stewart.
Live music, before and after the performance will be provided by Tommy Lombardozzi.
Matthew Ferretti, Dan Graff, Kendra Leigh Landon, TJ Lombardo, Sean Meehan, Ridley Parson, and Susanne Stewart.
Live music, before and after the performance will be provided by Tommy Lombardozzi.
Saturday, July 16, 2011
D3C Youtube Channel
Dialogue with Three Chords
A place for the words and music that influence the series, and eventually, some live clips.
A place for the words and music that influence the series, and eventually, some live clips.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
The first Dialogue with Three Chords
The play line-up for our first night has been set!
We will be performing, on our feet with scripts in hand:
Tiny Hooks
The Rebel Sound of Fuckin' Around
Instructions for Dancing
Fast Food Strategies
The first three are premiering at D3C. Fast Food Strategies has been work-shopped in front of an audience twice by Barefoot Theatre Company.
Cast list and Musical performer to be announced.
Dialogue with Three Chords
July 28th, 2011, 8pm - 10pm
$3 Suggested Donation
Downstairs at Mr. Dennehy's Pub
63, Carmine Street,
Between 6th and 7th Avenue
NYC
We will be performing, on our feet with scripts in hand:
Tiny Hooks
The Rebel Sound of Fuckin' Around
Instructions for Dancing
Fast Food Strategies
The first three are premiering at D3C. Fast Food Strategies has been work-shopped in front of an audience twice by Barefoot Theatre Company.
Cast list and Musical performer to be announced.
Dialogue with Three Chords
July 28th, 2011, 8pm - 10pm
$3 Suggested Donation
Downstairs at Mr. Dennehy's Pub
63, Carmine Street,
Between 6th and 7th Avenue
NYC
Monday, June 20, 2011
Announcing a Monthly Event
The fourth Thursday of every month, Downstairs at Dennehy’s will host
DIALOGUE WITH THREE CHORDS
A monthly collaboration between
playwright Stephen Gracia and director Michael LoPorto.
D3C will feature new plays by Stephen, plus live music, poetry,
and short plays by emerging playwrights.
Start Date: Thursday, July 28th, 2011 8pm-10pm
Mr. Dennehy's Irish Pub
Mr. Dennehys
63, Carmine Street,
New York, NY 10014
(212) 414 1223
DIALOGUE WITH THREE CHORDS
A monthly collaboration between
playwright Stephen Gracia and director Michael LoPorto.
D3C will feature new plays by Stephen, plus live music, poetry,
and short plays by emerging playwrights.
Start Date: Thursday, July 28th, 2011 8pm-10pm
Mr. Dennehy's Irish Pub
Mr. Dennehys
63, Carmine Street,
New York, NY 10014
(212) 414 1223
Monday, May 16, 2011
Manifestos on Bathroom Walls.
Theatre can be many things. It can be spectacle: puppets and costumes and sets and huge casts. It can sprawl across three acts.
It can also be two people talking.
It can be street clothes and bare stages. It can be done in ten minutes. It just needs to be effective; it needs to communicate; it needs to transform.
Spectacle is good; it envelops you and thunders across you; it's arena rock. It's main stage magic.
This isn't that. This is basement theatre. This is dialogue with three chords.
Punks don't do fake Magik.
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