Three Hotels

Four Monologues

By Jon Robin Baitz

Three Hotels directed by Charles E. Polly
Assisted by Simon Kaplan

Four Monologues directed by Robert A. Zick, Jr.
Assisted by Simon Kaplan

at the Thick House
1695 18th Street, San Francisco

Runs March 18-April 11, 2004

A searing indictment of corporate corruption, Three Hotels examines the issues of personal and global responsibility during our current era of American economic colonialism. Three Hotels is presented as a series of three monologues set in three hotel rooms in Morocco, the Virgin Islands and Mexico. In the first segment, "The Halt & The Lame," we meet Kenneth Hoyle, an international businessman selling defective baby formula to third-world markets. "Be Careful," Part Two of the evening, introduces us to Hoyle's wife Barbara, the not-so-perfect corporate soul mate. At a corporate summit she gives a speech to "the Girls" -- young wives assigned to the Third World -- and reaches her breaking point. The third monologue, Hoyle's confessional after the fall, finds him alone in yet another hotel room, amidst the Day of the Dead celebrations in Oaxaca.

Four Monologues is a short piece that spotlights pressures brought to bear on the National Endowment of the Arts.

“Director Charles E. Polly gets strong, focused performances from Greeley and Souza...who together ensure that the play’s ultimate emphasis on corruption comes over in compellingly intimate terms.”
- Rob Avila, San Francisco Bay Guardian

“...Michaela Greeley is pitch-perfect in the role of a chafing, liberal spouse ...These three monologues feel spare and sometimes static, but they travel a surprising distance in a short amount of time. Baitz has written an unexpectedly moving show.”
- Michael Scott Moore, SF Weekly