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m1 Courtesy Photograph The Lord Leebrick Theatre Company‘s Late Night Speakeasy program otters music, monologues and improv, among other things. LLTC hosts speakeasy, plays ■ There may be fewer leaves on the trees in November, but there are more shows on stage By Jen West Oregon Daily Emerald This fall, the Lord Leebrick The atre Company launched a new pro gram called “Late Night Speakeasy.” The program is intend ed to offer a relaxed and casual at mosphere for new and experimen tal pieces that would not necessarily be shown on the main stage. These performances feature a variety of mediums, such as origi nal dance compositions, mimes, music, monologues and improv — all on the same stage. “All of these art forms can exist in the same show,” artistic director Corey Pearlstein said. Pearlstein was quick to clarify that this was not a variety show, but something that compared more to a San Francisco warehouse party. Word of mouth publicity perpetu ates the “underground” feeling the Speakeasy invokes, he said. LLTC plans to continue the Late Night Speakeasy, beginning at 11 p.m., once the theater’s main stage shows have been running for a few weeks. There are no set schedules for the shows and no set ticket prices, though donations will be accepted. “We want our theater to be more immediate and accessible,” Pearl stein said. “Lord Leebrick is about giving more experimental and orig inal works more time on stage, un filtered and unburdened.” Other performances in LLTC’s lineup will include “Deux Femmes: An Evening of One Woman Plays” by Barratt Walton, a former Eugene resident. This event will be comprised of two progres sive plays, “Raw Canvas” and “Price of Admission,” both show ing Nov. 8 through 11 and Nov. 15 through 17. The evening will begin with “Raw Canvas,” a play that follows a Canadian painter in Paris as she de cides it is time to go home with her young son. The painter is at a mo ment in her life when she must make a choice, and she is just be ginning to work her life out. “She is at the crucial point of how to apply the brush strokes to the canvas of life,” actress/director Sparky Roberts said. “It will be very much about an artist’s own progress in life and artwork.” The evening will continue with “Price of Admission,” starring Roberts, who plays a woman with a checkered past in Los Angeles re turning to rural Oregon to open a French restaurant. “A lot of people will laugh at ‘Price,’” Roberts said. “It will make you think and feel. I think it will be a revelation.” On the main stage, LLTC has ex tended performances through Nov. 3 of the Pulitzer Prize finalist and 1999 Tony Award-winning “Side Man,” written by Warren Leight and directed by Mike Fisher. Using flashbacks, this emotionally charged play takes the audience through the family life of the main character, Clifford. The play shows how Clifford deals with his parents. His father has an obsession with jazz music that leaves him oblivi ous to the family around him. Clif ford’s mother struggles with isola tion from her husband, unrealized dreams and alcohol abuse. The family becomes strangers that live in one house and split one rent check. “It’s about where (Clifford) is at, and how he deals with disassocia tion,” Fisher said. “This is a play best felt. At the Lord Leebrick The atre, you can really feel up close and can really see what’s going on.” Adult tickets for “Side Man” are $16 on Friday and Saturday and $12 on Thursday. Adult tickets for “Deux Femmes” on Friday and Sat urday are $12 and $8 on Thursday. Student tickets on Thursday nights are always $8. Doors close at 8 p.m. for both shows. Tickets should be purchased at the door by 7:45 p.m. Jen West is a Pulse reporter for the Oregon Daily Emerald. She can be reached at jenwest@dailyemerald.com. IA/ha*t s ot\ a*t Taylov's? BoomsHdnka funk & jams Thursday October 25th l/Vayne J6rarrtz. 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