In Front of Your Eyes 2026
A Festival of New Performance Presents
Pearl Louise’s
Lovin Jaleal
The Marsh San Francisco Mainstage Theater
August 14 at 7:00 pm & August 16 at 2:30 pm
Written & Performed by Pearl Louise
Opener: Barbara Brady
Ticket Information
Tickets: $15 – $35 General Seating | $50 & $100 Reserved Seating
60 minutes | No Intermission
(Please do not bring infants to the show)
Online ticket sales close 2 hours before each performance.
Additional tickets may be available for purchase at the door.
Show Description
When Pearl’s loved one dies, she finds a written letter asking if she would care for their special needs sibling like a mother. A story of fear, courage, and strength, trying to honor that request.
Artist Biography
Pearl Louise, Performance Artist and Writer
Pearl Louise (Playwright, Performer) is a Bay Area performance artist and mother whose works have been seen at the Fresno Fringe Show, San Francisco’s Stage Werx Theatre, and The Marsh. She has performed two solo pieces with The Formerly Incarcerated People’s Performance Project (FIPPP), which led to a series of performances at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Her first full-length solo show, Pass the Nails and Shame the Devil premiered at The Marsh Berkeley in March 2026 with an extended run.
Opener
Barbara Brady
Following a career in business communication, intermingled with part-time professional singing and occasional performance art, Barbara Brady took David Ford’s “Creating and Performing Your Own Work” class at the Marsh Theater in San Francisco. That was in 2018. Her first 20-minute piece grew into a solo show, “Father Daughter & Holy Toast,” about an aging, eccentric father and two anxious daughters competing for his affection. She performed excerpts at the Marsh Theater in San Francisco and Berkeley, including Monday Night Marsh and Tell It On Tuesday, and at Solo Sundays at Stage Werx in SF. She also performed the full show at Great Salt Lake, Cincinnati, Orlando and Rogue (Fresno CA) fringe festivals, earning laudatory reviews. “Impressive… this is a woman worth leaning in and listening to,” said the Orlando Weekly. The death of a more sinister relative led to “My Dead Uncle’s Porn Collection,” also in collaboration with David Ford. The show premiered at the 2025 Tampa Fringe Festival and has been performed the 2025 Soaring Solos Stars Series in LA, the 2026 Rogue Performance Festival and the Ooley Theater 2026 Women’s Wit & Wisdom Festival in Sacramento. It has been praised as “nuanced and perceptive… brilliantly written.” Nowadays, Barbara thinks of herself as a writer, aspiring performer and visual artist. She’s auntriarch of a sprawling, lively and tolerant extended family, who are kind enough to let her tell their stories on stage.
Piece Description – My Dead Uncle’s Porn Collection
My Dead Uncle’s Porn Collection is a solo show about a strange relative, prone to inappropriate (to say the least) behaviors. From my perspective now (and largely from having written this show) I understand he had an undiagnosed, untreated mental illness. But as a kid, that’s not how it looks. The show depicts my best and worst childhood experiences with horror, humor and irony. It then jumps ahead to when I reluctantly become a caregiver for my perpetrator in his old age, and his proclivities still manifest themselves in unusual ways. After he dies, I have to clean out his house. I’m on a quest for anything that might explain why did what he did. I do come across his “collection,” but that’s not the strangest thing in I discover. My Dead Uncle’s Porn Collection explores heavy subjects with a light touch. It’s okay to laugh! Ultimately, it’s about the healing power of talking about toxic secrets.
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