Three Dollar Bill


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Three short plays on being queer and conservative

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Three Dollar Bill is...

Written by Kirk Wood Bromley
Directed by Howard Thoresen
Stage Management by Brendan Turk
Production Management by Ruthie Conde

Sets by Jane Stein
Lights by Jeff Nash
Costumes by Karen Flood
Music supervision by John Gideon

Featuring Gillian Chadsey, Elisa Blynn, John McConnel, Bob Laine, Timothy McCown Reynolds, Sonja O'Hara, David Nash

Thur - Sun, December 1 - 18, 2005
Tue - Fri, December 20 - 23, 2005

8 pm - $15

Center Stage / 48 West 21st Street, 4th floor

 


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In Sept 2005, Gay City News said, “Inverse brings utter and unmistakable excitement back to the theater. It’s exciting, energizing, and an incredible relief to find that there are still such passionate and thoughtful artists working in the theater.” Winner of “Best Downtown Theater Company” (New York Press 2001), Excellence in Music/Lyrics and Excellence in Playwriting (NY Fringe 2002/2003), and co-winners (with Ellen Stewart and Basil Twist) of the NY Innovative Theater Awards (2005), Inverse Theater once again “pushes the envelope, lights it on fire, and then throws gasoline on it” (offoffonline.com 2005) with these compelling, hilarious plays on the curious cultural convergence known as queer conservatism.

On the bill...

What Are You Thinking, Mary Cheney?

Alone in her alpine lodge, surrounded by her secure electric perimeter, the lesbian daughter of “the evil puppet master” is finally pushed to come out of the closet and into the sound bite. In a smooth tirade of self-justification, she explains her controversial “lifestyle choice” to the captive liberal activists in her mind. But will her empowered paranoia inevitably prove that you can either sleep with the enemy or sleep with your lover, but never both?

Civilization and its Disco Tents

A real-time "gay conversion therapy" session between an ex-gay therapist and a supposedly gay, but wanting to be straight, patient “turns queer” when the therapist discovers that the patient is actually straight and wants to be gay. Yet this revelation only arouses deeper mysteries: Who is the patient and who is the therapist? Who is gay, ex-gay, and straight? And what is the difference between sexual conversion and sexual perversion? The gay conversion industry is in for a serious “lapse dance.”

The Welcome Mask

Here it is – your standard “coming out” family drama. Son comes home with a vagina on his face. Father gets angry because this proves that Son is an Eskimo. Daughter, jumping to her brother's defense, puts a penis on her face. Father grows angrier because this proves she's a movie producer or a crooked travel agent or even worse. Feeling left out, Mother puts a botched sex-change operation on her face, though no one quite knows what this makes her. As Son, Daughter, and Mother shoot down "the slippery slope" right there in the living room, Father finally restores order to the family by putting something on his face. The question is, what is it?