The Nothing Factory Goes to Baltimore!
Posted December 10, 2007 by erik_ruin in Events
If you're in the Baltimore area this weekend, please come and check out the Nothing Factory, an epic musical shadow theater experience by Erik Ruin, Reid Books, & co., this saturday December 15th at St. John's Church.
Also performing will be Tacky Masks, an all-new configuration of Baltimore improvising veterans, & Wham City comedian Ed Schrader, perfroming "Grad Libs".
The Nothing Factory uses shadow-puppetry, projections, hand-altered slides, giant cardboard puppets, painted banners, dramatic narration & a live avant-punk soundtrack to tell a dystopian allegory, the tale of a fictional world where everybody wanted everything,and noone was happy having nothing.
Story & songs by Reid Books, formerly of West Philly ensembles Greetings from Urbania & International Anthems for Irrational Numbers.
Shadows & sets by Erik Ruin, puppeteer, printmaker & editor of the zine Trouble In Mind & the anthology Realizing the Impossible:Art Against Authority.
Narrative performance by Anissa Weinraub, of Liberty Cabbage Theater's Olive on the Seder Plate.
Live rock soundtrack provided by the unlikely named Aetherial Underpants Orchestra- members of Red Devil and International Anthems for Irrational Numbers banging away subtly on drums, bass, percussive guitar,trumpet & bass clarinet.
Dramatic consultance courtesy of Sarah Lowry of the Missoula Oblongata.
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