With his world premiere musical Three Houses, Premiere Resident and Tony nominee Malloy (Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812) theatricalizes pandemic isolation with searching beauty, surrealism and humor. In his music, lyrics and book, Malloy uses poetic imagery and a fanciful touch to explore the vacillating contradictions we have recently lived through: an experience communal yet solitary, familiar yet strange, life-affirming yet heartbreaking.
Director Annie Tippe (Malloy's Octet) returns to Signature Theatre for Three Houses, bringing to life a world where isolation has driven three people to the edges of their sanity; alone in the domestic spaces that cloister them, they search for meaning and connection in the objects that surround them, unlocking memories of their grandparents as they attempt to face their ancestral demons.
Music
Dave Malloy
Lyrics
Dave Malloy
Book
Dave Malloy
Director
Annie Tippe