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OTTER, doyenne of the Backyard Ballroom, makes her overdue return to stage acting in Chapeau Tombe Nan La Mer ("My hat fell into the sea"), the fifth of LOUIE CROWDER's six-part post-Katrina series. This newest meditation of mortality and love also boasts performances by KEITH LAUNEY and LIZ MILLS, fresh off their triumph with "The Glass Menagerie" and old hands at Crowder's densely allusive dialogue.
Crowder's intensely romantic, poetic series charts the historical, mythological, and socio-political aspects of the past three years in New Orleans. In Chapeau Tombe Nan La Mer, a young man, assumed dead since Katrina, walks out ...Read More
OTTER, doyenne of the Backyard Ballroom, makes her overdue return to stage acting in Chapeau Tombe Nan La Mer ("My hat fell into the sea"), the fifth of LOUIE CROWDER's six-part post-Katrina series. This newest meditation of mortality and love also boasts performances by KEITH LAUNEY and LIZ MILLS, fresh off their triumph with "The Glass Menagerie" and old hands at Crowder's densely allusive dialogue.
Crowder's intensely romantic, poetic series charts the historical, mythological, and socio-political aspects of the past three years in New Orleans. In Chapeau Tombe Nan La Mer, a young man, assumed dead since Katrina, walks out of the Gulf with a trumpet in his hand just as Gustav is entering it. As he plays a jazz funeral dirge to the sea, the young man is discovered by a National Guardsman, who offers him a ride home to his mother. She's newly returned to from three years in FEMA trailer to her half-finished house when her long-gone son re-enters her life.
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