Danny and the Deep Blue Sea

“This play is dedicated to everyone in the Bronx who punched me or kissed me, and to everyone whom I punched or kissed.”
— John Patrick Shanley, playwright

Danny and the Deep Blue Sea is set in a rundown bar in the Bronx where two of society’s rejects, Danny and Roberta, strike up a halting conversation over their beer. He is a brooding, self-loathing young man who resorts more to violence than reason; she is a divorced, guilt-ridden young woman whose troubled teenage son is now being cared for by her parents. Danny, whose fellow truck drivers call him “the beast,” seems incapable of tender emotion, while Roberta, who is still haunted by the memory of an ugly sexual incident involving her father, is distrustful of men in general. And yet, as their initial reserve begins to melt, and they decide to spend the night together, the possibility of a genuine and meaningful relationship begins to emerge–the first for both of them.

Starring Joe Geller and Trish Doolan; Directed by Trish Doolan.