![]() ![]() ![]() The friends and neighbors DeSantis interviews are also broadly drawn. Spinning in and out of character, Lecesne adopts a distinctive stance and voice, rather than costumes and props, to keep someone like Leonard’s earthy aunt Helen, who raises the alarm when Leonard goes missing, distinct from her 16-year-old daughter, Phoebe, who offers the most succinct description of the missing youth. As written and performed by Lecesne, he’s a brash version of the hard-boiled detectives in genre fiction. The scribe constructs his character study from the thoughtful recollections of Leonard’s neighbors, the half-dozen or so who share them with Chuck DeSantis, the local detective investigating the case. The premise of the piece is that no one in this Jersey Shore town properly appreciated this unabashedly out-there youth - who wore makeup and constructed a wild pair of platform sneakers by gluing a half-dozen colorful flip-flops together - until he was no longer around. His 2008 novel, “Absolute Brightness,” on which this show is based, produced Leonard Pelkey, a 14-year-old boy who has gone missing and will eventually turn up dead - murdered. ![]()
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