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8 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays only
Voodoo Mystère Lounge Theatre, 718 N Rampart St (at Orleans Ave)
$20 Dinner & Show by reservation
$12 Show only
Show info: (504) 361-4627
Voodoo Mystère Reservations: (504) 304-1568
The New Orleans premiere of "Cul-De-Sac" by acclaimed playwright Daniel MacIvor is directed by former Washington, DC, based producer/director Ed Bishop. Los Angeles film and stage actor Franklin Walker plays Leonard who narrates the events leading up to his own murder while trying to understand them himself, and also portrays multiple characters in a neighborhood who bear witness to Leonard's life and death.
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8 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays only
Voodoo Mystère Lounge Theatre, 718 N Rampart St (at Orleans Ave)
$20 Dinner & Show by reservation
$12 Show only
Show info: (504) 361-4627
Voodoo Mystère Reservations: (504) 304-1568
The New Orleans premiere of "Cul-De-Sac" by acclaimed playwright Daniel MacIvor is directed by former Washington, DC, based producer/director Ed Bishop. Los Angeles film and stage actor Franklin Walker plays Leonard who narrates the events leading up to his own murder while trying to understand them himself, and also portrays multiple characters in a neighborhood who bear witness to Leonard's life and death.
In a review of MacIvor’s work, The Philadelphia Weekly praised “Cul-De-Sac” as a triumph in language, “beautifully arcing and clever.” MacIvor, co-founder of the famed Da Da Kamera Theater Company, is considered one of Canada’s most influential post-modern playwrights. Originally performed by MacIvor, Canada's National Post calls “Cul-De-Sac” “wickedly funny.”
“Cul-De-Sac” is Bishop’s directorial debut in New Orleans. As the newest member of a growing list of innovative theatre artists, he was seen on stage in the NOLA Project's “The Beignet Plays” at Le Chat Noir last summer. He began his career in theatre in New Orleans at the historic Free Southern Theatre under acclaimed artist John O’Neal. A product of Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi, and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, Bishop returns to New Orleans because, as he says, “I had to come back and help out.” No stranger to DC audiences and the Washington Post, Bishop has directed two plays honored by nominations for DC’s Helen Hayes Awards and Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Plays.
Ed and actor Franklin Walker were last teamed in a production of “Split Second” by Dennis MacIntyre at Port City Playhouse in Fairfax, Virginia, just outside the District of Columbia. Says Walker, who has had his sights set on working in New Orleans since leaving Los Angeles, "I have wanted to perform “Cul De Sac” for quite a while and working with Ed inspired me to continue our artistic relationship.”
“Cul-De-Sac” premières at Voodoo Mystère Lounge Theatre, the brainchild of Four Humors producer/artistic director Michael Martin. Located at 718 North Rampart Street, New Orleans Times Picayune called Voodoo Mystere “the most innovative, intimate and peculiar theatre space in town.” The theatre captured audiences with runs of “Out Comes Butch" starring Four Humors company member Frederick Mead, the Alpheus Series and Found Objects Theatre of Chicago.
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