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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.
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