![]() The show’s LGBT theme is important and resonant, and it’s suitable for adults and teenagers. Lecesne is a fine writer and a virtuoso performer, almost miraculously adroit playing multiple characters, including some of the best cross-gender acting I’ve ever seen. ![]() ![]() Brightness is part film noir, part droll comedy, and entirely engrossing. You might be expecting Brightness to be a downer, or a call to action, or both, but it’s far more complex and even lighthearted than that. It’s an odd hybrid, for sure, this fictional story of the murder of a flamboyant young gay man in a New Jersey community. ![]() The show has a big heart, and Lecesne-who is both writer and solo performer-is a big talent. It sounded like the knell of financial gloom… and a one-actor, 80-minute show where PTC functions as mostly as a presenter seemed a let-down.īut Brightness is bold, daring, and large format. The late-hour reshuffling that brought this substitution worried me. Sara Garonzik’s final season as Executive Producing Artistic Director of the Philadelphia Theatre Company-after an extraordinary run of 35 years-had been set to end with a new play about Thomas Eakins that she helped to develop. There’s nothing small about James Lecesne’s, The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey (including the somewhat unwieldy title, hereafter shortened to Brightness), but its wonderfulness comes, frankly, with surprise and relief. ![]() THEATER REVIEW: Absolute Brightness Is Absolutely Terrific ![]()
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