LEO Opens a QU IRKY NEW COMEDY INNOCENCE and PROMISES in the PRESENTED by DARK
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I Published by Access Theatre, Inc. Spring Edition a non-profit corporation Celebrating Our Second Decade of Accessible Theatre April, 1991 ALL NIGHT LONG, SEED OF LEO Opens A QU IRKY NEW COMEDY INNOCENCE and PROMISES IN THE PRESENTED BY DARK. Movies of the week ro les have been in May 10th For Access Theatre A RIGHT TO DIE, LA EARTHQUAKE, DELIBERATE STRANGERS and Three Week Run BYMark Stein t CELEBRITY. Ms. Bartlett has been seen on DIRECTED BY countless television series including, to name a L.A. DRAMA CRIT IC'S few, BARNEY MILLER, LITTLE HOUSE ON For millions of years, mankind has CIRCLE AWARD WINNER THE PRAIRE and THE GOLDEN G IRLS. searched for answers to life's great Frank Condon mysteries. He has travelled the FEATUR ING Victoria Ann-Lewis plays Peggy on the mountains and valleys. He has ventured EMMY AWARD WINNER popular night-time soap KNOTS LANDING. Bonnie Bartlett to the stars and beyond .•. looked to leader Her most recent stage appearances were at Los AND after leader. Now •.. at long last, the time Victoria Ann-Lewis Angeles Theatre Center in Shakespeare's has come for answers. AT LONG Chet Carlin VENUS AND ADONIS, and Jo Carson's LAST... LEO! Tyler Dumm DAYTRIPS. As Artist in Residence at the Delta Giordano Morgan Mark Taper Forum, she developed the AT LON is a quirky n ·w Rod Lathim television special TELL THEM I'M A MERMAID, a surprising look at the lives of c medy by Mark t in , pr s ' nt •d hy A · ·ss IN 11 rwr I 11 I) IN Theatr at th ' n •w •nt ·r St:t g ·Th 'lit ·r I ,N I /IN 1U/\ .I BY seven disabled women. Since MERMAID'S in the Pas c NL1 vo down1ow11 S1 1111 11 Kathryn Voice appearance in 1982, it has won a variety of national and international film awards and Barbara,May 10-2 J1 i<l i. hb· lting May 10-26, 1991 prndu tion wi ll ~·:itm · n · : 1 ~ 1ol11111 : 1hk ~ Center Stage Theater continues as one of the most exciting examples from stage, t I •visic n nnd film, ;111d fc r tl w UP l/\IRS AT DE LA GUERRA of the possibility of linking disability and the gu dir · ·tor. AND CHAPALA STREETS arts. first 1im ·, nn <1w:trd-winning ·~ 1 PASEO NUEVO , SANTA BARBARA A css Th at 1" /\rt bti L ir •·tor and Founder Rod L·1thim, will return to the CONTAINS MATURE LANGUAGE Chet Carlin, who portrays the father in LEO, stage after a 5 year hiatis, in the role of Leo. TICKETS recently relocated to California after twenty (805) 963-0408 rlus y ;i r ~ in N w York working on and off Leo is a man with a dream - a fa irly Voice/TDD Bro:1dw:1y :ind in Li< z •ns ( r •g i<na l th •nt r •s. lengthy dream. ln fa th has writt n a THE COMPANY l. lis las t app aran , in Los /\ng •l •s was a page manife·to whi h h b li ' ves an s;we THAT BROUGHT YOU rep at f his Br adway performan c in FIR T THE HIT COMEDY MONDAY IN OCTOBER opposite Henry the world. Th nly tr ublc is, n ne will The Boys Next Door listen to him, not even hi fa mily. They Fonda. His work as Osric in HAMLET, would mu ch prefer that Leo found a "real starring Christopher Walken at Stratford, led job." But Leo does not despair. Maybe he to the role of Malvolio in TWELFTH NIGHT is addicted to hope - or maybe, just maybe Off Broadway·a nd to three seasons at the he really does have the answers. In a time Three Rivers Shakesperare Festival in when people are looking for answers on CO-SPONSORED BY Pittsburgh playing Polonius in HAMLET and both global and personal levels, a time of Touchstone in AS YOU LIKE IT. Recently unrest and uncertainty, this powerful play IG11.7K S B L Chet played Thomas Moore in A MAN FOR focuses on the survival of hope in our ALL SEASONS at the Empire State Theater society. 1m11 in New York. Access Theatre is presenting the third Seven year old Tyler Dumm is Access production of AT LONG LAST LEO, Theatre's newest discovery and portrays which was originally produced at South Bartholomew, Leo's nephew. Tyler, who is oast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa, blind, was introduced to Access through the and la t eas n at the r g n hake peare Santa Barbara Therapeutic Riding Academy, Festiva·l in Ash"tand. (see interview with where he is a reguiar equestr.ian with Company playwright Mark Stein on page 6) Artistic Manager Thomas Rollerson. Tyler i a bright Director Rod Lathim saw LEO in Ashland and talented young man and makes hi s stage and was intrigued with the power of the debut in LEO. production and the issues it addresses. Delta Giordano Morgan, who plays G loria, "I walked out of the theatre in deep has been seen in Santa Barbara' Ensemble thought, and realized that this show was Theatre Company productions as Julia in THE something to consider for Access Theatre. RIVALS, Blue in BEIRUT and Wilma in I couldn't get it out of my head for weeks, SHOOTING STARS. Before moving to and once I read it, I knew we had to Santa Barbara, Delta was a member of The produce it! Although Leo and I are quite Company of Angels in Los Angeles. In 1987 different, there are many things about his drive and vision that I can relate to. story continued on back page .. Eleven years ago it was an uphill battle to convince people that an accessible theatre in the title role of Leo. Lathim was last seen in Santa Barbara company was viable ... and neither one of us gave up," Repertory Theatre productions of MAN OF LA MANCHA remarked Lathim. and HELLO, DOLLY!, and has been the sole director of The Accidental Access Theatre's productions since 1979. Lathim was recently Access Theatre is honored to have enlisted the talents of honored with a Drama-Logue Award fo r Direction of THE Theatre Festival guest director, Frank Condon. Condon is on a year's leave BOYS NEXT DOOR. AT LONG LAST LEO is a part of Santa Barbara's from the highly respected Odyssey Theatre Ensemble in Los Accidental Theatre Festival, a springtime festival of Angeles, where he has been Associate Artistic Director since Two time Emmy Award winner Bonnie Bartlett joins the productions in the downtown cultural arts district, which all 1983. He has helped build the Odyssey's international cast of LEO as the mother. Bonnie attended Northwestern happened to be opening on the same night - yes it was an reputation with critically acclaimed world premieres including University to major in Drama, where she met her husband accident, but a fortuitous one! Other festival plays during the William Daniels. Thirty-odd years later, Bonnie and Daniels the CHICAGO CONSIRACY TRIAL for which he received merry month of May include A CHORUS LINE presented by LA Drama Critics' Circle Awards for both directing and played husband and wife on television's "St. Elsewhere." Both the Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera through June (call 963- playwrighting. Condon has directed for the San Diego were Emmy winners in 1986 and 1987 for their moving 0761) and THE ALTO PART presented by Ensemble Theatre Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, the Mark portrayals. through June 22 (call 962-8606). Taper Forum, and the Denver Theatre Center. On Broadway, Bartlett was in William Inge's NATURAL Santa Barbara's foremost professional theatre companies Artistic Director Rod Lathim is very pleased to have a AFFECTION and Landford Wilson's LEMON SKY. Her film decided to work together on a grassroots festival with the goal roles include TWINS (playing Arnold Schwarzenegger and director of Mr. Condon's stature as the company's first guest of expanding audience awareness and developing new regional director. Lathim is equally excited to be getting back to acting Danny DeVito’s mother), MY LOVE LETTERS, FRANCES audiences for live theatre in Santa Barbara. After an overwhelmingly successful run, Access Theatre's Critic Richard Scaffidi of Drama-Logue, a prominent theatre production of Tom Griffin's heart-warming comedy, THE publication in Los Angeles, wrote .... " BOYS NEXT DOOR, closed on September 2, 1990. BOYS BOYS NEXT DOOR "a marriage made in heaven; Tom Griffin's THE p(emiered at the new Center Stage Theater in downtown BOYS NEXT DOOR being produced by Santa Santa Barbara, and was extended an additional week se lling Receive Warm Welcome Barbara's Access Theatre . BOYS is splendid, and is out every one of the 18 performances. Both audiences and critics agreed that this production was a hit, and the positive only made better by its unique identity and response was a testament to the quality of the show and the "As Sheila, Susan Kern is astonishing. She is one of unprecedented staging techniques . It is, in fact, an impact that it had. several in the cast with some sort of disability . Using her altogether charming, funny, moving, uplifting production own speech and mobility impairments, just as any other - one that can genuinely touch and change its audiences Famed actor Anthony Edwards, a longtime supporter and smart sensitive actor uses his or her natural too ls , Kern .. .it is doubtful that THE BOYS NEXT DOOR has Access Theatre Honorary Board Member, played Jack, the ever been more intimate or effective.