BEYOND GLORY / Louisiana Premiere

Tony winning actor Stephen Lang stars in this spellbinding one-man performance, brings the courage of eight Medal of Honor winners to life in this screen adaptation of the play he based on Larry Smith’s book of the same name. Director Larry Brand skillfully translates theater into film through a mixed media presentation implementing aspects of documentary, solo and live performance, and computer generated spaces and objects. Lang magically vanishes into each soldier so that although the same theme runs through all the performances, every one is individuated and distinct. The actor somehow manages to distill the essence of valor that somehow emerges independently from the particulars of each of dramatically different wars from World War II, “the last good war,” to Vietnam, a very bad war.