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Show Dé The Salt Lake Tribune ARTS Needham’s One-Woman Show BY CELIA BAKER wanted to write a one-woman show. This year sheactually did | Hiddenwest Theatre presents Lisa Needham in which has been submitted to the “Show and Tell.” Billed as “one woman's multimedia and her husband, Rich Wyman, are regulars on the Park City mu sic scene, he asan instrumentalist screen, the performance is produced and directed by 2000 Sundance Film Festival. She THESALT LAKE TRIBUNE Lisa Needham has always it, but not by the book I don't w adventure,” and taking place onstage and on Jacqueline Landeen. Pub- andsheas a backupsingerin his band and on his two CDs. She's licity also a principal actor/vocalist in troupe Hiddenwest Theatre. Her one-woman show culminates 13 years of taking down notes on I've donecc Needham s morelike watching a live musicvideo a one-woman multimedia adven Needham ture. There's mu sic, dialogue, monologueandfilm, andalive camerathat follows me backstage to see how the showis puttogether. I guessyou couldsay it’s a one-woman show about a one-woman show.” Needhamhas led a varied life. to colorful language.” Friday and Saturdayat 8 at the Steiner Egyptian Theatre (328 Main St.) in Park City. Tickets are$10in advance or $12 at the door what it takes to be a performer. To coalesce those pages of stream-of-consciousness jottings. Needhamturned to Jacqueline Landeen, a Park City writer and theatrical producer. “We fash ioned Li notes into an avant garde performance that tells of her dream to get a one-woman showon the stage,” says Landeen “It’s the story of Lisa and her alter ego. She's a multifaceted per former with a voice that can go Shegot a theater degree from Em from Broadwayto opera to rau cous street music, and we've erson College in Boston, and stars in the film “The Real Thing,” mixed that with acting and film.” Needham said, “in the end it’s information de- scribes “ShowandTell” as “for mature audiences due the multimedia performance peopleto get Playwright Coming for Readingof ‘Absence’ Show and Tell Is a ‘Multimedia Adventure’ Sunday, October31, 1999 andare available at Dan's Foods, the Egyptian Theatre, the Inn at Prospector Square, and Orion's Music, all in Park City, For more information, call 1-868-322-9964 about finding the confidence to go forward, and about all the things that stop you. I think that’s 23) iadNow ee 0 Ne BYCELIA BAKER THE SALT LA! "RIBUNE Theplay is called “Absence,” but the playwright, Wendy Hammond, will be present to hear it read on Salt Lake Acting Company’s New Play SoundingSeries. Backgroundfor the play came out of Hammond's early years, spent in Utah “on andoff,” and from memoriesof herfather, who did top-secret work for the government. “Absence”begins at the end of World WarIlandtells the story of a young Mormon couple. The husband, Peter, begins top-secret government work andeventually is pulled into morally dubious ac- tivities that strain the marriage. Hammonddelineatestheconflicts that arisein the play: “It's about a marriage, and spansover50 years. Peter wants to keep the country safe and prosperous, and gets into his work for great reasons. But how do you keep the world safe? And what do you haveto give up sometimes? Theplay comes from ty own struggle to deal with conflicting priorities morality.” in A previous draft of “Absence” was produced by The Purple Rose Theatre in Michigan last season under a different title and received a host of awards,including a nomination for the American Theatre Critic's Association Best New Play Award. Hammondsays, “Tt was a huge honer,but I felt that theplaywasstill not done.” Play readings can be just as ef- fective as staged versions, in Hammond's opinion. “The actors just sit there and read, but it’s amazing how easy it is to imagine. They're good actors, and they'll really create the play. You can count onit being enjoyable, be- cause your imagination supplies everything. When plays are staged, sometimes things don’t work that well, and it takes you outofthepla SLAC literary manager David Mong si “I think what im. pressed me most about ‘Absence’ is the way the characters’ relationships mirror the journey American and world society has Wendy Hammond @ AtSLAC Salt Lake Acting Com: pany’s NewPlay Sound ing Series beginsits sea son with “Absence” by former Salt Laker Wendy Hammond, Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel Theater at Salt Lake Acting Company. 168 W. 500 North. Ham mondwill participatei: a post-play discussion. The event is free. traveled between World WarII and the present day, andtheloss of innocence we have gone throughasa culture.” DOWNTOWNLIFE. UPSCALE STYLE. 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