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INSPIRATION: Lake Effects Stage Performance

  
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Still from the Lake Effects production
Lake Effects:
Lisa Flanagan & Gregory Laney.

Shots from Lake Effects.
Patricia A. Suchy has supplied a still from Lake Effects and hopefully there will be more to come, heres what she has to say:

"I’m attaching a jpeg file with a still from the short movie, Salvatore’s Revenge that we made for the final scene of Lake Effects. The movie (shot on DV--I wish we could have afforded film) is an adaptation of the St. Veronica legend as recorded in a set of medieval French texts usually known as The Vengeance of Our Savior.

It [The first showing] went exceptionally well, sold out the house. I have been blessed with an ensemble of incredible young performers and technicians (among them now some new Veronica Lake fans, too).

I adapted that material into a film noir starring ’Veronica Lake’ and ’Alan Ladd’... in other words, performers playing Lake and Ladd playing the characters in the story (I told you this was a strange project).

The image attached is of Lisa Flanagan and Gregory Laney playing those roles--the cinematographer for this shot was Jeremy Theriot.

This scene was shot in down town Baton Rouge, which still has some structures and ambiance of the 40’s.

When I have time I can get some better stills--this was just an experiment, to see generally what things would look like rendered to black&white. We barely got the film edited in time--it was a pretty ambitious undertaking. "

Lake Effects"Lake Effects" was performed Wednesday through Friday, November 14 through 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Black Box Theatre, Room 137 Coates Hall, on LSU’s Baton Rouge campus.

Following the performance on Thursday, November 15, there was a post-show discussion led by Dr. Jenny Jones of LSU’s Department of Theatre and Dr. Elsie Michie of LSU’s Department of English.

An update to the Lake Effect production information!

Black Box Theatre Patricia A. Suchy contacted Peek-a-boo Bang again with this update on the schedule for Lake Effects and the coverage in CineAction magazine:

"Just an update on "Lake Effects" and an attached press release. Also--my article on Veronica Lake is out (!) in CineAction, issue #56. Lots of nice pictures, and she has the whole back cover."

"Lake Effects" will be performed Wednesday through Friday, November 14 through 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Black Box Theatre, Room 137 Coates Hall, on LSU’s Baton Rouge campus.

Following the performance on Thursday, November 15, there will be a post-show discussion led by Dr. Jenny Jones of LSU’s Department of Theatre and Dr. Elsie Michie of LSU’s Department of English.

Everyone is welcome to attend and participate. A $5 donation will be accepted at the door for all performances.

For more information, call 578-4172 or visit the web site at: http://www.artsci.lsu.edu/spcm/black_box Download the flyer in PDF format: Lake-Release (38K)

"Please feel free to share any of this info thru the site. Thanks for all your help and inspiration--I’m thanking you in the program, will send copy of that soon. Here’s the ad for the show: All best, Trish Patricia A. Suchy"

A lady contacted me some months back now regarding a theatre piece she is developing and directing in the fall at Louisiana State University. The piece is called "Lake Effects" and its main subject is Veronica Lake with the secondary subject of St. Veronica. "Yes, admittedly strange" she says.

She’s been scripting this summer and is excited with the progress. The show will be at the Black Box Theatre at LSU in mid-November.

She states:

"It’s decidedly an experimental piece, a collage of live performance and film--kind of a hard thing to describe."

"It will be a mixture of adaptations of print and film sources, both fictional and non-fictional, and some of my own original texts. There will be 6-8 performers, and they will all at some point appear as Veronica Lake."

"The connection between the two Veronicas is maybe even harder to explain--briefly, some of the scholarship on St. Veronica’s veil and the ’true image’ it bears resonates with the making of Veronica Lake into a cultural icon and star."

"Veronica’s veil is also associated with hair--and here we go into Lake again. It’s all a little giddy, but I’m actually very serious about what it all has to say about Hollywood legends and the culture that helps to create and is created by their mythologizing--very similar things go on with saints, albeit in very different contexts. I’m also a huge Lake fan, as you may have guessed."

She’s also created an academic journal on the subjects which she is hoping to publish with an article that will appear in the next issue of CineAction, which is published in Toronto.