Brothers’ love is split wide open as an unsettling hum gives way to full scale invasion. Samuel and Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War combines 1950’s radio drama, live music, and Soviet scientists for a look back in time and forward to what’s next.
The Gang’s back— Sammy, Ali, Susie, Mischa, Anastasia, Host, and of course “Tumbleweed”—
for a one night engagement at ARS NOVA’s ANT FESTIVAL.
November 19, 2009 @ 8PM.
FOR MORE INFO AND TICKETS - http://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/691335
Check out the Trailer for Samuel & Alasdair. You’ll love it!
This trailer is from our workshop run at the Brick during the Anti-Depressant Festival. We are recycling it. Ignore the part about 3 performances left.
We have one performance at the ANT Festival at Ars Nova November 19th at 8 pm.
FOR MORE INFO AND TICKETS - http://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/691335
Here’s a sneak peek of our workshop rehearsal of the opening of Samuel & Alasdair.
Hey, we are featured on the ANT Festival nytheatre.com podcast. check it out we are somewhere towards the middle:
“I simply wanted to know more…this is a testament to the strength of this funny and haunting piece.”-nytheatre.com
“the premise is so unusual I was instantly hooked—and the performances so engaging…The script, co-written by Curnutte and Bovino, strikes a perfect balance between telling the story of Samuel and Alasdair and the stories of the “actors” as well. We only get bits and pieces of the actors’ stories [but] …the script is so beautifully written that these vignettes serve as tantalizing glimpses into the characters.”-nytheatre.com
“Samuel and Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War takes a notoriously pleasant point in history and gives it a startling alternative ending. Writers Marc Bovino and Joe Curnutte incorporate peppy 1950s colloquialisms in their witty script-within-a-script format to truly transport the audience to another time, but not quite a simpler nor familiar one. Their take on Russian survivors post Cold War is also refreshingly fleshed out and empathetic: these are not boilerplate Commies etched out of old Bullwinkle cartoons. These characters are truly enamored with American pop culture such as rock ‘n’ roll and I Love Lucy, who are just as terrified by the unrecognizable interwoven radio dispatches of air bomb sirens and panicked dialogue they hear cutting into their otherwise regularly scheduled programming. 1950s American idealism has never been so surreal.”-newtheatercorps.blogspot.com
Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War was made possible by these great folks.
Marc Bovino: co-writer, creator and actor
Evan Prizant: costume designer
Lila Neugebauer: co-conceiver and director
Stephanie Thompson: co-creator and actor
Sarah Lunnie: dramaturg
Michael Dalto: musical director, co-creator and actor
Joseph Curnutte: co-writer, creator and actor
Stowe Nelson: sound designer
Talented photog Ian Scott McGregor snapped these ones. We went to Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn last spring.
