“One of the things for me has always been to keep looking for the reason it has to be a solo show. It was something I knew how to do and I loved doing it.” So I thought, I’ve done these solo shows before. There was a way people were really thinking about this stuff and didn’t know how to talk about it in public. “I felt like there was an opportunity to say some things to an adult audience that I had already said to a young adult audience, something more complex and maybe a little darker. They talk about the experience of knowing the kid as it becomes clearer and clearer what happened to him. Really, the play is about how we’re all connected to one another, the effect of one person’s life on many other people. I play all the people in the town to whom this boy was connected. The play is about trying to figure out what happened to him and why. “It’s the story of a Jersey Shore town where a 14-year-old boy disappeared. The actor-writer-activist tells Backstage readers how the story evolved, and gives valuable advice on how to develop successful solo theater. His critically acclaimed solo show adaptation, “The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey,” transferred Off-Broadway to the Westside Theatre on July 11. After his Academy Award-winning short “Trevor” inspired the founding of the Trevor Project in 1998, actor-writer James Lecesne wrote “Absolute Brightness,” a young adult novel about a 14-year-old boy New Jersey boy who goes missing.
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