Selected Short: Strange Places With Guest Host Robert Sean Leonard

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“Portal,” by J. Robert Lennon -Read by Robert Sean Leonard.
“A Curtain of Green,” by Eudora Welty -Read by Frances Sternhagen

http://www.selectedshorts.org/2016/03/strange-places-with-guest-host-robert-sean-leonard/

Comments

[discofunction.livejournal.com]

sassyjumper - I think this is the reading you saw at BAM last May! :-)

[sassyjumper.livejournal.com]

Yes! RSL read Portal ... The Eudora Welty story wasn't part of the show I saw, though.

Thanks for posting!

[discofunction.livejournal.com]

I thought it was so I went back to your journal and had a re-read of your post!
You said you didn't enjoy the story that much. I actually quite enjoyed this one... at least I think I did.... I may have just enjoyed listening to RSL talking whilst sipping my morning coffee! ;-)

[sassyjumper.livejournal.com]

I also heard it in a different context -- It was the last of four stories that were all dealing with the same subject, of people trying to escape their hum-drum lives and having it backfire. So by that point, I was getting a little bored. Plus, RSL's story had the least amount of humor, which disappointed me. I did think he gave the best performance, however -- though it's possible I'm biased :)

[discofunction.livejournal.com]

I did think he gave the best performance, however -- though it's possible I'm biased :)

Hehe. I wonder how biased I am when watching RSL too. Luckily, I saw TKAM with a non-RSL fan first time round and they confirmed that he was indeed amazing and it wasn't just me staring in wide-eyed adoration.

I am not surprised you felt he gave the best performance. RSL has many talents as an actor of course, but I do think he is especially good at doing these readings. He really does have the right kind of voice for storytelling. He enunciates very well and has a real talent for engaging the audience... or at least that's my opinion as a biased RSL fan! ;-)