COMING SOON: "Love Stories" Reprise and a New Work in 2025

Photo by Mark Larson

Back by popular demand,

LOGGER LOVE STORIES

is coming back to the Logger Bar for 5 performances only. 

Performance dates are:

Sunday November 17 – 4pm

Monday November 18 – 6pm

Tuesday November 19 – 6pm

Wednesday November 20 – 6pm

Thursday November 21 – 6pm

Place: World Famous Logger Bar, 510 Railroad, Blue Lake, California -right next to the Center of the Universe.

Wild, whacky, hilarious… supremely talented cast …sterling band…audience interactive… surprising and touching.….Beti Trauth, Eureka Times Standard

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(Or you can come by the Logger Bar on Wednesdays from 3 to 6pm when Michael is bartending, ask him about it and buy a ticket then.)

SEATING IS VERY LIMITED – 60 people per show. It will sell out.

Love - Love in a bar - Love in this bar

We've seen 100's of ignitions over 134 years in the Logger Bar and some wild misfires. There has been one fight in this bar since I've owned it. It was over a girl. You might say...that's not original, but I think it is. It is always immediate, intimate, personal, urgent, timeless".

If we are so good at love. If we have figured it all out...we wouldn't continue to sing about it, dance about it, write about it and make glorious theatre about it. I think so much is written about love, because everyone wants it, but no one truly understands it. It is an ongoing human mystery. LOGGER LOVE STORIES is inspired by encounters that have happened in the bar. Some of them fall into deep human comedy. Some of them just fall deep. All of them have the possibility to resonate in our lives. 

We promise you a rocking good time that will be full of "feels," laughs and live music. Shows start at 6 PM (Sunday at 4PM) so you don't have to stumble in the dark though you may need to be danced to the end of love. It is staged so everyone is up close in the Logger Bar, where the beer is colder than your ex's heart.

Written and directed by Michael Fields, THE LOGGER LOVE STORIES features a veteran ensemble that includes, Cynthia Martells, Lynnie Horrigan, Shawn Wagner, Ben Clifton, Alyssa Hughlett, Evan Grande and joining us for this production is the amazing David Powell and Alex Blouin. And we also have Jeff Landen as the ghost of Gino along with Biscuit the bar dog. Our incomparable band includes: Marla Joy, Tim Randles, Jeff Kelley, and Mike Labolle. The scenography is by Lynnie Horrigan. Michael Foster is the light designer.

LONGSHADR is a production company started by Michael Fields in 2020 when he retired from Dell’Arte. The name references the long shadows that are cast in the winter when the sun dips to the horizon behind the hill and the dark of the days become longer until the light of late spring. It is about the hope, effort, and joy of moving out of the shadows and into the light. It is about collaborations that promote the health and creative community spirit of this place. It is about preparing and creating popular (“of the people”), place-inspired theatre for a new era. In 2021, Longshadr produced MADSUMMER. In 2022 Longshadr produced THE LOGGER LEAR. The fiscal sponsor for LOGGER LOVE STORIES is Blue Ox Village and Millworks. And partial support for this production also comes from the California Arts Council. 

For more information, email longshadr@gmail.com or www.longshadr.com

COMING IN FEBRUARY 2025

A NEW WORK

LOGGER LEGENDS, LIARS AND LOOKERS

The third part of the “Bar Plays”. This will open on Monday Feb 24 and run February 25, 26, 27, 28 March 1 at 6pm and Sunday March 2 at 4pm.. Seven performances only.

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A  family reunion in the bar gone horribly wrong. Secrets, ghosts, songs, whiskey and politics and the past creates an elixir found only at the Logger. A small town comes face to face with itself through one of its founding families meeting themselves again after years apart.

One of my main inspirations for the “Bar Plays” now a trilogy, is the late playwright, JB Keane. He owned a pub in Cork, Ireland. He would listen to what happened and what was said in his bar and then weave them into plays. One of his patrons said that he had “the best job ever. You write down what we say and then charge us to hear it”. Initially, Dublin critics said his work was “too provincial” until it became hugely popular. I believe that the local, well told, is universal in its human story. That is what we aspire to in this work.