Get your first look at THREE BY TENN: The Gnadiges Fraulein; This Property is Condemned; & A Perfect Analysis Given By a Parrot, directed by Katherine Almquist at Sherman Playhouse, running next month.
The scene is a rickety bunkhouse, for "permanent transients" in a place called Cocaloony Key, off the southern tip of Florida. The characters include a kooky society gossip columnist, the coarse landlady, a demented Viennese opera singer, an aggressively territorial Cocaloony bird, and a sweaty, hammer-wielding handyman. Outrageously funny and, at times, heartbreaking, it's a fascinating and deeply affecting study of humanity.
A young girl, abandoned and aching for human connection, shares the story of her sister, the "main attraction" at a condemned boarding house, with a young boy as they wander along the train tracks during the Great Depression.
Two overdressed women "in the autumn of their youth" hit town at the annual convention of the Sons of Mars in Memphis. But in their search for a good time with the men at the convention, they get lost from their party, ending up in a seedy bar where they spend the night tearing each other apart in the cattiest - and funniest - of ways.
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