The Venn diagram that greatest describes the Pint Lizards efficiency group is equally overlapping circles of performing, ingesting, and nostalgia. In follow, that interprets to performing fashionable film scripts for a pub viewers. What started as a pandemic venture for head lizard Richard Croy and his theater-folk buddies has changed into a seamless collection of readings in native watering holes, treating audiences to stay renditions of their favourite traditional movies.
“We love films; we love ingesting,” says Mark Johnson. “Might we make performing a studying of a beloved film right into a ingesting sport?” Completely! Suppose an actor deserves a tip? Drop a greenback within the pint glass in entrance of them and so they’ll reply with a “bottoms up!” on their beer.
The Pint Lizards started their readings with Beetlejuice in 2021 and have carried out a script a season since then. “As ravenous theater individuals,” says Karen Baltzley, “we wished to discover a method to carry out in Santa Barbara with out paying an arm and a leg to make use of an area. We proposed to our favourite bar to allow us to carry out one thing on their slowest evening … now we’re two years in!” The upcoming present, John Hughes’s The Breakfast Membership, can be carried out at 7 p.m. on Sunday, August 27, at Blue Owl downtown (which affords a vegan-friendly menu, drinks together with wine and beer, and a full calendar of stay occasions).
These readings usually are not demure performances by pretentious actors — it’s extra akin to a canopy band of all your mates enjoying your favourite songs. “I feel the draw is nostalgia,” says Wealthy Lashua. “We’re taking stuff that already has a spot in popular culture, and … bringing it to life for an hour or two. Free admission! Seize a beverage or a meal, and when you prefer it, we’re at all times welcoming options for the subsequent spherical. We’d do your favourite subsequent!”
The Blue Owl, 5 W. Canon Perdido St., theblueowlsb.com
