DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
Off Broadway
Playwright
John Patrick Shanley
Direction
Jeff Ward
Choreography
Bobbi Jene Smith & Or Schraiber
Starring
Aubrey Plaza & Christopher Abbott
Costume Design
Arianne Phillips
Light Design
John Torres
Scenography
Scott Pask
Premiered September 2023, at the Lucille Lortel Theater, NYC




PRESS
"Choreographed by the husband-and-wife team of Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber, the wordless interlude imagines the book’s unwritten stretch between leaving the bar at each other’s throats and waking up together. Roberta and Danny dance, flirt, poke, prod, claw, open up, yearn; the movement functions as a metaphorical sex scene... It’s a strange, mesmerizing concoction of sweetness, ferocity, awkwardness and aggression that reveals more about the lovers, and the fine line between tender passion and violence, than anything said on stage."
— The Guardian