![]() ![]() Lecesne is also a writer of wit and keen observational skills, who here unfolds a dark tale that shimmers with the needling suspense you associate with the best police procedurals, or the likes of “Gone Girl.” ![]() Each is drawn with the precision of a fine engraving and a dollop of a great cartoonist’s comic expressionism. Lecesne has the channel-changing virtuosity to portray a hardened New Jersey detective a withdrawn teenage girl her abrasive but warmhearted hairdresser mom the British proprietor of a dance-and-drama school and at least half a dozen equally distinctive characters. His is not one of those here’s-what-happened-to-me-and-isn’t-it-fascinating feasts of oversharing that proliferate on small stages. Lecesne, a young-looking 60, who has been “telling stories for over 25 years,” as his bio modestly puts it, ranks among the most talented solo performers of his (or any) generation. ![]() Please, one-person-show haters - you know who you are, and you are legion - don’t stop reading. And yet that’s the paradoxical effect of “The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey,” a superlative solo show at Dixon Place written and performed by James Lecesne, himself a pretty darn dazzling beacon of theatrical talent. Review: ‘The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey,’ James Lecesne’s One-Man PlayĪ show about the brutal murder of a 14-year-old boy should not, logically speaking, leave you beaming with joy. ![]()
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