In the Lounge 3 Lies About Brooklyn, pt. 3: A Death in the City John Farrell

About This Show

Described as “an unforgettable evening with a master storyteller, actor and writer,”  John Beshaw-Farrell’s “3 Lies About Brooklyn” is a performed memoir whose first two instalments “A Bastard’s Childhood” and “A Thief of Love” (each Dixon Place premieres) took us up through the end of Farrell’s adolescence in the mid 1970s.   The central event of the third and final part, “A Death in the City”, is the murder of his 21 year old BF in 1979 and the consequences it was to have for him. Farrell calls it, “The final frontier of a bad boy’s innocence”.

About the Artist

John Farrell began as a member of Brooklyn’s legendary Everyman Company over 45 years ago.  Before re-locating to Ireland in 1981 Farrell had appeared in venues as diverse as BAM, Lincoln Centre, LaMama etc., Circle in the Square (downtown), Hudson Memorial and everywhere else he could push his way into.  When his adoptive mother died three years ago Farrell discovered that he had actually been born in Ireland, a discovery that led to the 3 Lies About Brooklyn – an attempt to give voice and shape to the aggregates of necessary silence that had shaped so much of his life.  The ambition here is to tell the stories that could never be told.

Thursday, Jul. 30 at 7:30pm

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