LAB Theater Project
March 18 – April 4, 2021
An Evening with Eberlein consists of three plays: I’ll String Along with You and Click: A Travel Motif directed by Caroline Jett, and Jack: A Love Story directed by Roz Potenza. In I’ll String Along with You, we meet Sarah (Leah LoSchiavo) and Laurel (Katie Calahan), a married couple attempting to navigate a tense situation after Sarah’s estranged son (Orion Flanagan) spends the night. “A mother’s guilt, a broken relationship between mother and son, hiding things from a spouse, attempting to get a spouse to face an unpleasant reality, commitment to one’s marriage, all this and more is packed into this moving one act,” says Jett. “String speaks to family dynamics and turbulent relationships that many people face.”
Click: A Travel Motif follows James (Chazzz Macartney) and Jerry (Lance Felton) in a thought provoking piece challenging the audience to be honest about deeply-rooted perceptions. In this fast-moving percussive-language piece, two successful Black men waiting for a bus interact with each other and the city traffic as they deal with and survive relentless snap judgements. “It is my sincere hope that this piece opens a conversation about bias and makes us examine how we react to those around us,” commented Jett. “The smallest, seemingly innocuous things we say and do can have cumulative damage, but we have the ability to change.”
Jack: A Love Story is a decidedly skewed look at what happens when the fairytale we think we know so well ends. With the help of an omniscient, offbeat Beatnik (Lance Felton) and the setting of San Francisco of the 1960s as a backdrop, we see yet another version of “Not so…Happily Ever After” unfold as Jack of all nursery rhyme and fairytale fame (Miles Randolph) and Brick of Three Little Pigs (Orion Flanagan), two cellmates recently released from Alcatraz, navigate life outside of prison. “As the Director of Jack, I’ve enjoyed pulling at the strings of this fractured fairytale and exploring the seamy side of things, says Potenza. “Not every story is as it appears and this is no exception.”
May 6 -23, 2021
Directed by: Owen Robertson
Cast: Katie Calahan, Ricardo Fernandez, Zachary Finley, Emma, Hurlburt, Miles Randolph, Tyler Wood
Story Line: Sebastian has come home for his father’s funeral. While visiting the gravesite he encounters is father’s partner John. Sebastian seeks answers at his childhood hunt. Jon wants to solve a cold case. Everything comes to ahead when both men return to the Wendy house and face memories, old, friends, and the truth.
September 2 -19, 2021
Directed by: Owen Robertson
Starring: Tiffany Faykus
Wednesday’s child tells a story of Britt or white working class Midwesterner. She begins her career on the bottom rung of an industry remade by Latinos, whose population growth is feeling that of America, and is coming to understand what it means to be outnumbered. She and her family struggle to navigate a new and confusing, terrain in America, frightened that whites seem to be losing their majority status, and where demographics anxiety is contributing to many of the social fissures polarizing the US – from immigration and their towns flux of Spanish workers to welfare reform to the election of President Trump. Finally, at a crossroads, Britt is faced with adapting or succumbing to the dark forces of violence in reaction to a world that has brought anger, frustration, and disenfranchisemeant.
October 28 – November 14, 2021
Directed by: Owen Robertson
Starring: Darius Autry, Eddie Gomez, Haley Janeda, Roz Potenza and a cameo appearance by Rick Stutzel
Ruth is a 74 year old woman. Rowan is a 23 year old man. They’re in love. And Ruth’s 43-year-old son, Jim, is freaking the hell out.