Some of you may remember the Voodoo Mystère Lounge's occasional ALPHEUS SERIES (named for the sacred river that nourishes Xanadu with imagination and creation in Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"), which premiered in June with two wonderful short pieces from Chicago.
It takes time to find an act to follow Bower, Hayes, Chrisler, et al, but we've got one now. The Voodoo Mystère Lounge is proud to host JERRY RABUSHKA, artistic director of St Louis's award-winning experimental troupe Ragged Blade Productions, in his powerful solo comedy, Somebody Else's Life, for two performances only.
Rabushka, no stranger to New Orleans--he appeared in 2007 ...Read More
Some of you may remember the Voodoo Mystère Lounge's occasional ALPHEUS SERIES (named for the sacred river that nourishes Xanadu with imagination and creation in Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"), which premiered in June with two wonderful short pieces from Chicago.
It takes time to find an act to follow Bower, Hayes, Chrisler, et al, but we've got one now. The Voodoo Mystère Lounge is proud to host JERRY RABUSHKA, artistic director of St Louis's award-winning experimental troupe Ragged Blade Productions, in his powerful solo comedy, Somebody Else's Life, for two performances only.
Rabushka, no stranger to New Orleans--he appeared in 2007 at La Nuit Theater with Woof! The Road Show--has been anxious to return, to strut more of his stuff. It's for just such artists as him that the Voodoo exists. And as he's toured Somebody Else's Life since 2006, it's honed to a perfect point.
Here's Rabushka's own summation:
"You down with the blond, big boy?
"Sometimes it's all about the hair. The blond head on the grocery bagger. The black 'stache on the cowboy. Sometimes it's enough to make you wish you could be someone else. Or at least, have somebody else's life. The story starts innocently enough, on a street corner in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 81st and Yale, to be exact, with a character who realizes that if he can't, in fact, be someone else, he can at least stand next to the ones who have it so much better.
"On one side is Chuck - the cowboy who's most likely never ridden a horse, but drat if he doesn't have the duds! On the other side, young Ryan bags groceries and pines for the love of his life - a new feeling at 16.
"See, the word of God is like a bunch of kids playing telephone… by the time it gets to the third of fourth caller, you have no idea who spake what to who how or when…
"Meanwhile, Ryan's fondest dream comes true when he gets to kiss the boy he loves - but moments later his world starts falling away from him.
"Somebody Else's Life explores the burning questions of life - somebody else's, that is. What happens when marriage loses its sanctity? Particularly in Sapulpa, Oklahoma? Can a gay couple and a straight couple live next door to each other if there isn't enough sanctity to go around? Hilarious, yet chilling, full of surprises, and with as much fun as can be had with a pump organ." The Alpheus Series presents Somebody Else's Life written & performed by Jerry Rabushka directed by G.P. Hunsaker produced by Ragged Blade with the Voodoo Mystere Lounge
The Voodoo Mystère Lounge, 718 North Rampart, at Orleans. Saturday & Sunday, October 4th & 5th, 7pm. $9, 504.304.1568.
Please note: The lot across the street from the Voodoo is NOT available to our guests.
For more about Ragged Blade, see www.raggedblade.com. For more about the Voodoo Mystère, see www.myspace.com/voodoomysterefourhumours.
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