THEATRE PREVIEW

august 2018 | Volume 170

 

Small Town Boys
Written & Performed by Sean Casey LeClaire
Directed by Lisa Dalton
at the Vancouver Fringe Festival

Dates & Showtimes:

Opening Night Performance Thurs. Sept. 6 - 8:15pm

Sat. Sept. 8 – 1:00pm
Sun. Sept. 9 – 8:45pm (½ price)
Thurs. Sept. 13 – 6:45pm
Sat. Sept. 15 – 6:15pm
Sun. Sept. 16 – 3:15pm

Address: Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island, 1412 Cartwright St.

Tickets: vancouverfringe.com or available at the door

Ticket Prices:  Adults $15

A devastatingly beautiful story about how no man is born violent.  

Montreal born and former Vancouver resident Sean Casey LeClaire is pleased to bring his solo show, Small Town Boys, to the Vancouver Fringe Festival playing from Sept. 6–16, 2018 at the Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island. This timely play is about the power of vulnerability in men, deep friendship as a form of love, and how a person can become whole and live with deeper awareness. The story is punch-in-the-gut tough, and hilarious at the same time.

The play takes place in the 1970’s, in a small-town tavern, and in various locations across Canada. The story is about a band of high school boys in a rough and tumble town near Montreal.  After a life-changing moment of violence in their lives, Small Town Boys illuminates the different paths their lives take. The narrator, one of the boys, follows two older boys out west, and the journey unfolds in terrific and wacky ways. With ruthless self-scrutiny and compassion the story dives into the nature of deep friendship, forgiveness, and the fleeting and fragile moments that define our lives.

The multi-talented LeClaire is a poet, actor, and executive coach. In this work he is the performer, playing all 17 characters. “These characters are drawn from real people, dear friends who I knew growing up in a small town outside of Montreal,” states writer Leclaire. “I believe art can change people’s consciousness; art is a seeing place, an opportunity to discover what it is to be fully human.”

Small Town Boys was originally presented as a staged reading in Fort Worth, Boston, Atlanta, and New York during the fall of 2015. It asks the audience uneasy questions.  Does a homeless person shame us all? Is fear stronger than love? How do hurt people heal? 

Characters: 

Narrator
Narrator as:
Ed (twenties) Eddie (late teens) Neddie (boy 7–12)
Bo
Big Willy
Ricky Brown
Bruno
Bucky
Triple D
The Shrewster
Mr. Schoenberg
Football Coach
Eddie’s Dad
Eddie’s Mom 
Biology Teacher
Ricky Brown’s Father

Running time – 75 minutes, with no intermission

For further information visit www.smalltownboystheplay.com

Links:

Web: www.smalltownboystheplay.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seancaseyleclaire
Twitter:  https://twitter.com/SeanLeClaire
Hashtag: #seancaseyleclaire #smalltownboys #NoManIsBornViolent #HugAnAngryMan
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWn18150shWK6X__LUGG7Fw

Backgrounders:

About Sean Casey LeClaire:

Sean Casey LeClaire is a poet, actor, and executive coach.

He works primarily in the solo form but has appeared onstage in numerous plays: Cyrano, as Cyrano de Bergerac, in Chekhov’s The Bear as Smirnov, in Grotesque Love Songs as Pete.  Sean’s first one-man play called HUG has been performed for men’s groups around the USA, and his books Hug an Angry Man and Mud-Wrestling with My Mind are used as the required reading for emotional healing programs in hundreds of prisons and recovery sober houses.

His eight-minute incantation poem Men Come in The Room has been anthologized in dozens of publications, used at Harvard University in an emotional intelligence course, and Sean has performed the incantation with trombonist Charlie Tokarz and the renowned percussionist Bob Weiner. As a performance poet, Sean as shared his work at 200-plus readings. Primarily a writer, he finds the arduous journey into live performance as an actor “wonderfully terrifying but a stretch worth the effort.” He trains with some of the finest teachers an actor can be blessed to meet: Lisa Dalton, Susan Batson, Seth Barrish, and the great Harold Guskin. 

Sean’s “day-job” sees him traveling globally as an executive coach, he works currently with senior business leaders and their teams at Sanofi, Adidas, Bayer, and Tory Burch. He is a thought leader and sought-after keynote speaker known for his provocative approach on the topics of conscious leadership, emotional intelligence, and gender balanced business teams. Sean has been called “the perfect blend of a Buddhist monk and USA Navy Seal.”

Formerly a founding partner at Leclaire Hamilton Inc. he once had the great pleasure of managing the promotional marketing for British Columbia Tourism, responsible to show-case “god’s country” to the rest of the world.

Off-duty, you will find Sean walking in the hills north of where he lives near Boston, or in Manhattan enjoying art, theatre, and music in the city. His son Beau is the great joy of his life, and he has been in long-term relationship with his beloved Kamala.

Sean is grateful to be sharing the solo show Small Town Boys at the 2018 Vancouver Fringe Festival. 

About Lisa Dalton:

Lisa Loving Dalton appeared in more than 200 films, television shows and commercials as an actor and stunt player in New York, Hollywood, and Texas. You’ve seen her in ER, HBO’s Carnivale, Dr. Quinn and Melrose Place among her many TV credits. She was featured in the cult favorite Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon as a bad gal in Sho’nuff’s Gang. Visit IMDB for a partial listing.

Her stunts were used in such hits as Ghostbusters, Money Pit, Crocodile Dundee, Married to the Mob, FX, Legal Eagles, and Splash. She doubled Cher, Madonna, Kelly McGillis, Grace Jones, and Meryl Streep.

On the other side of camera, she is an award-winning director/producer of independent fiction and documentary films.

Lisa teaches and performs in Russia, Europe, and the Americas, on stage and film, beginning in 1976 with BondST.org as a founding member. She is on the SAG-AFTRA DFW Board, President of the Tarrant County Live Theatre League, President of the National Michael Chekhov Association (www.chekhov.net); and is a John Maxwell Founders Circle Certified Speaker, Trainer and Coach.

Through the NMCA, Dalton and Professor Wil Kilroy developed the longest running Michael Chekhov Teacher certification track globally. Lisa was the 2014 SouthEastern Theatre Conference (SETC) Guest Master Teacher.

In 1998, Lisa co-created the Award-winning documentary From Russia to Hollywood narrated by Gregory Peck that aired on PBS. Other DVD’s she has authored include:

• The Michael Chekhov Workout
• Michael Chekhov: The Dartington Years
• Anthony Quinn on Chekhov

She is the author of:

• Michael Chekhov Playbook: Discovering the Complete Chart of Inspired Action
• Murder of Talent: How Pop Culture Is Killing “IT”
• Falling for the Stars: A Stunt Gal’s Tattle Tales
• Atmospheres: The Soul of Storytelling
• SynthAnalysis@: A Multidimensional Approach to Script Analysis with Stanislavski and Michael Chekhov
• Foreword: Acting Exercise for Non-Traditional Staging: Michael Chekhov Reimagined by Anjalee Nadkarni (2017) London: Routledge
• Foreword: Energize: A Balancing Act by Emmanuelle Chaulet (2008) Maine, Starlight Acting Books
• Articles: Backstage, Soul of the American Theatre and Actors Ink 

She is also certified in NLP, Hypnosis, and Neurological Repatterning and a John Maxwell Team Speaker, Trainer, Coach.

Off-duty, you might catch Lisa cruising on her BMW motorcycle with her Shih Tzu, Tibby Dalton (Friend him on FB). A biker since her first stunt in 1980, she has ridden in all 50 United States and 9 Canadian Provinces.

As a celebrity golfer with her late husband, actor Ken Kerman, she has served many charities, with favorites Alice Cooper’s Solid Rock Foundation, Barbara Sinatra Abused Children’s Center and Make-a-Wish Foundation. She is a proud stepmom of two and grandma of four. Scuba, hiking and being a bird nerd flesh out her hobby list.

 

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