Plays / Chronology / Danny and the Deep Blue Sea

Actors Theatre of Louisville
8th Humana Festival of New American Plays

February 22–April 1, 1984
DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
An Apache Dance

by John Patrick Shanley
Directed by Barnet Kellman

The Cast
Roberta
June Stein
Danny John Turturro

The play takes place in the Bronx at the present time.

Set Design
Paul Owen
Costume Design
Marcia Dixcy Jory
Lighting Design
Geoffrey C. Cunningham
Sound Design
James M. Bay
Property Master

Sam Garst

Fight Director

Steve Rankin

Stage Manager

Susanna M. Banks

Assistant Stage Manager Janice Neustedter
Presented by special arrangement with the J. Michael Bloom Agency.

Danny and the Deep Blue Sea was initially presented as a staged reading at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center’s 1983 National Playwrights Conference.

An Apache Dance is a violent dance for two people, orginated by the Parisian Apaches. Parisian Apaches are gangsters or ruffians.