Hoi Polloi's
THREE PIANOS

February 25--March 20

"Hilariously twisted. . . uncommonly entertaining"
--New York Times (on Alec Duffy's The Top Ten People of the Millennium Sing Their Favorite Schubert Lieder (2005)

"After hearing what composer Rick Burkhardt can make from singing wineglasses and a scraping fork, we feel better prepared for the exquisite musicality of his text."
--Time Out New York

Three Pianos is a theatrical explosion of Franz Schubert’s Winterreise song cycle by three major artists of the indie theater community – composer Dave Malloy of Banana Bag & Bodice, playwright/director Alec Duffy of Hoi Polloi and composer/playwright Rick Burkhardt of the Nonsense Company. The piece takes the form of a musical lecture/demo gone astray, with the three creators each at their own piano, leading the audience through their respective passions for Schubert’s famous song cycle on winter heartbreak. 

Hoi Polloi is a New York-based collaborative theater company formed in 2007 by director/playwright Alec Duffy.  The company creates original work that strives to explore how we, as Americans, come together and how we fall apart.  Recent original work includes The less we talk: a meditation on group singing and Dysphoria (Ontological-Hysteric Incubator).  In 2007, the company was selected by The Public Theater to be a part of its 365 Days/365 Plays Festival, presenting seven short plays of Suzan-Lori Parks in community gardens in the West Bronx, Jamaica Queens and East Harlem, as well as at the Public Theater.

Written, performed and composed by Rick Burkhardt, Alec Duffy and Dave Malloy
Directed by Rachel Chavkin

February 25--March 20
8p.m; no performances Mondays or Wednesdays
Tickets: General $17/Student $14
Purchase in advance here or by calling 212-352-3101. Cash only at the door.