Marta Lastufka is returning to the stage after 20 years, starring as a woman who’s returning to a situation she departed 15 years ago, a tidbit she says nobody involved with the production has brought up as they prepare to perform 13 shows in 11 venues throughout Juneau during a 19-day period starting Wednesday.
Instead it’s the mental and physical challenges that Lastufka — a longtime performer at Perseverance Theatre after joining decades ago at the age of 19 — is focusing on as she resumes an art form that’s both familiar and foreign.
“I’m out of practice and my brain does work differently,” she said Thursday. “My 19-year-old daughter runs lines with me. And just from running lines she’s memorizing text, and I have to work very, very hard. So I think it’s a combination of not doing it for a very long time and also just having an older…
