NO STRINGS ATTACHED

Written by MANUEL IGREJAS
Directed by ROBERT TEAGUE

Featuring
CASEY BURDEN, AFRIM GJONBALAJ, & KEVIN PEREZ

Lighting & Sound: ELLEN ROSENBERG
Publicity: PROPAGANDA PR

Stage Left Studio
214 West 30th Street
6th Floor
New York, NY 10011
www.StageLeftStudio.net
July 24 through August 16, 2014

NO STRINGS ATTACHED is a phrase that’s easy to say but hard to endure when it comes to love. Just ask Monty, a sweetheart of a guy who’s been in a romantic partnership with Luis for ten happy years. Monty is the sentimental one, wanting to get married on the beach, wearing a Vera Wang pantsuit. He works in publicity for a Styrofoam company, but dreams of writing a best-seller one day.

Luis is not sentimental. Nor is he employed. He decides to become a stand-up comic. Eye-roll from Monty. But he will be supportive of this goal, not matter how impractical and unachievable he considers it. That’s the power of love.

One evening they attend an art opening in Chelsea and are served drinks by the handsome Stefan. Electricity fills the air. Something about Stefan excites and delights Monty. He feels he knows Stefan from somewhere. Ah, yes. Porn films. Next Stefan encounters Luis, who exhibits the same symptoms as Monty, but for a very different and more destructive reason. Let the bad times roll.

This is a triangle, but hardly romantic in any positive sense. More a sexual triangle, strangely askew in its proportions. Luis dominates Stefan, Stefan dominates Monty, and Monty just tries to cope with his breaking heart. Three men, three different priorities: love, lust, and money. Perhaps another old saying will turn out to be true. Love conquers all?

-Karen D’Onofrio-