The company that created Hell House, Boozy, Heddatron, and A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant returns with a kick-ass slate of new subversive entertainment primed to further accelerate our nation’s decline.
This December, we transform Soho's Ohio Theatre into a fully immersive, bombed-out discotheque as we fuse unmerciful Japanese rave music with deeply regrettable sophomoric comedy in the futuristic dance spectacular, Dance Dance Revolution.
In a futuristic Orwellian society where dancing is illegal, a group of local street toughs harbor no hope of overthrowing the fascist no-fun government—until a mysterious dance prophet named Moonbeam Funk arrives.
Loosely based on the wildly-popular video game, Dance Dance Revolution is like Footloose set in the future—but kind of scarier, and with 40 really attractive, barely-clothed young actors and buckets of free beer.
You know there’s gonna be some dance-fightin’…
Live Robots in LA!
Center Theatre Group, LA's premiere theater company, has once again shown the exceptional good taste to bring the Les Freres aesthetic out West. This coming June (as in '09), they will produce the West Coast Premiere of the LFC chestnut, Heddatron, by the whip-smart Liz Meriwether.
This insane show pits six live, hulking, near-sentient robots against Ibsen, Strindberg, and a surprisingly-heartbreaking modern-day Hedda Gabler story.
Ben Brantley of The New York Times called Heddatron:
"Strangely moving... Magical… The wild side of theater where audiences' hearts are mended by the ritualistic breaking of them on stage... Achieves true, and truly original, theatrical transcendence..."
