![]() ![]() “Like everyone else in the theater, I miss the camaraderie of gathering together in a dark space, having someone tell us a story,” Lecesne says, speaking on the phone from New York. ![]() ![]() Beginning this weekend, Cinnabar Theater presents a two-weekend, online run of “The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey,” with Nathan Cummings directing and Mike Pavone playing the narrator, a detective named Chuck, along with all the people Chuck encounters while investigating the disappearance of the flamboyant and unashamedly original Leonard Pelkey. ![]() Given that theaters remain closed, of course, such performances are necessarily done as virtual, online-only events. The play has since been published by Dramatists, Inc., and now other performers are stepping up and taking on the actorly tour-de-force that Lecesne originated. Lecesne, who uses the pronouns he and they, is the author of “The Absolute Brightness of Leornard Pelkey,” a one-actor play that was adapted from their own 2008 YA novel “Absolute Brightness.” In 20, the play enjoyed a long series of performances featuring Lecesne himself, playing nine different characters in a tale that is part mystery, and part a celebration of the power of being different. For New York playwright-actor-novelist Celeste Lecesne - formerly known as James Lecesne - 2020’s massive shutdown of theaters across the country has been devastating. ![]()
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