![]() It’s funny, but when I finally asked permission of Michael (Chapman) and Rebecca (DeWitt), who renovated the two top houses and live in the one at the top, they said, “You know, we saw that car driving up and down the road a lot in the last few months.” I was sneaking around there a lot, wondering if I had the nerve. Manning: When you started thinking about what you were going to do, did you make a lot of return visits to the location? Or did you just keep it in your memory and work from that? ![]() We didn’t do that, but it still would be fun, even to go to any neighborhood and do these little live dances where the audience stands outside the house, then goes in, and then goes to the next house. My first idea was that I would do some live thing where the people in the houses would be the performers, and the audience would walk from house to house watching each of the porch duets, and maybe even go inside and have coffee and donuts. That gave me the idea of simultaneous stories going on. And the fact that if you’re on the first floor of the highest one, you’re on the level of the second floor of the next one down. Renzi: The hill and the repetition of the three houses, the ones you like to call the Triplets. Manning: What did you see that first day when you made the turn down North Holden Street? And then in August 2005, I started knocking on doors with my father, Ralph Renzi (local newspaper columnist) at my side, in case it helped to have a local connection. I said, “Let’s do that again!” So we looped around a couple of more times, and I scoped it out. It was a gorgeous day, and we came around the corner and went down the hill. We drove by it and it was closed, so we looped left and came down that hairpin turn. Renzi: My sister and my mother and I were looking for Neville’s Donuts (Eagle Street, North Adams, no longer open). Manning: How did you discover the location? Manning: Did you see the location before you had the idea? The conversation took place on September 20, 2006, at the ’62 Center on the Williams College campus. Marta Miller (no relation), a professional dancer who appears in the film and has worked extensively with Renzi. Marta Renzi, the creator and director of Porch Stories, and co-producer Ms. The following is the edited text of a conversation I had with Ms. INTERVIEW WITH MARTA RENZI (September 2006) If you haven’t read my article about “Porch Stories,” please read it first by clicking this link
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