![]() ![]() ![]() Solo actor Plunkett portrays about a dozen roles male and female, old and young. He pays a high price for not seeming to be like the other boys his age.Ībsolute Brightness was written with heart-tugging decency by James Lecesne, directed with a sure hand by Kate Alexander, and effortlessly performed by Jeffrey Plunkett. Leonard is considered “different” by many in his community. Rather, Absolute Brightness has a unique aura about it, with its own wrinkles taking on the issue of violence against one determined young man named Leonard Pelkey. Settling in at 1st Stage as the opening production of this year’s Logan Festival of Solo Performances, The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey is no vapid, run-of-the-mill police procedural. Performed at the Logan Festival of Solo Performances, 1st Stage. Jeffrey Plunkett in The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, written by James Lecesne, directed by Kate Alexander. It was a hate crime centered upon a missing young teen boy–a hate crime the detective ultimately closed with the help of some local citizens. ![]() He is recalling a hate crime from a decade previously that put his small “half-assed” South Jersey shore town, somewhere off the Garden State Parkway, on the map. “The dark side is my beat.” These are some of the first words heard from a New Jersey detective in The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey. ![]()
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