The Alpheus Series presents "Promises to Keep: The Poems of Robert F. Kennedy" and "Torvald and I" (New Orleans)

June 13-21, at 8 p.m. Sunday matinee, at the Voodoo Mystere Lounge, 718 North Rampart. Tickets are $10. For more info: (504) 304-1568 or (504) 948-4167. Chris Bower will solo in a funny, sad and weirdly sensual meditation on mortality, which takes as its premise that RFK was a closet versifier. Meanwhile, Mark Chrisler plays the lead in his one-act comedy, “Torvald and I,” in which the usual feminist deconstruction of the Isben classic turns out to pivot on a highly personal revelation from Chrisler’s past.