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Running Time: 55 Minutes Venue: Media Bridges Fri, 06/04/2010 - 07:00 Sun, 06/06/2010 - 05:00 Tue, 06/08/2010 - 09:00 Fri, 06/11/2010 - 09:00 Sat, 06/12/2010 - 08:00 |
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A corduroy-clad stranger reveals the story of the long dead OLDVERSE.
From Karim Muasher
Show Description: Come and hear the story of the OLDVERSE: the universe before this one, long dead and gone. Two lovers meet, and soon discover the truth about their existence: their universe is dying, burning up into flames. Told by the Historian, a mysterious corduroy-clad stranger, this show asks the questions: How do you stop the unstoppable? How do you face the inevitable? A combination of nintendo graphics, gameboy music, and theoretical physics; acclaimed theatre creator Karim Muasher single handedly creates an 8-bit universe of wit and wonder.
Most Fringy Thing: Karim Muasher created original 8-bit animations and music for the show. The animations were drawn using the original 52 colors from the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) we all knew and loved. The music was composed on an original 1989 Gameboy, and Karim plays it live in the show!
Trailer:
Artist/Company Bio: Karim Muasher was born in Amman, Jordan, and immigrated to the United States at an early age. He studied theatre at Ithaca College where he received his BFA in Acting. It was here that Karim began to create original work, incorporating comedy, puppetry, and physical theatre. Karim worked at various theatres across New York State, before heading to London to study for his MFA in Lecoq Based Physical Theatre. While in London, Karim continued to create original work, as well as forming the international theatre company Giant Bird (whose Empire of Feathers was seen in last year's fringe). His work has been called “gleefully low budget”, “bound for great heights”, and “so like life in my head.” Back in the US and based in Astoria, NY; Karim continues to create absurd work out the realities around him. For more info, go to karimmuasher.com
Hails from: Astoria, NY
Previous Fringes: 2009 Cincinnati Fringe Festival (Empire of Feathers, Producers Pick of the Fringe), New York Fringe 2004 (New York, NY) Camden People's Theatre Festival 2008 (London, UK), and Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2009 (Philadelphia, PA)
Reviews
A Simple Love Story
rating systems:
1=Disappointed 2=Enjoyed 3=Recommend 4=Encore
( My friends have introduced the option of + or - )
Fringe rating
FRINGY=what you only expect to see at a Fringe festival
FRINGIER=even at a Fringe festival you think- wow, that
was different
FRINGIEST=pushes the boundaries of what you ever see anywhere
A SHORT LECTURE OF A DIFFERENT TIME
Randy 2 * Ross 2+ * Tom 3+ * * FRINGIER *
The most accurate word I have for this piece is cute. It is very creative in
the use of extremely low tech animation, the persona of the historian, and
the interaction of the historian with the animation. It is a simple love story
told with constrained emotion that manages to have a very pleasant
effect. My friend, however, 'really got into it' and found that he resonated
with the whole piece from the very beginning. He found all the elements
worked so nicely together that it was one of his favorite shows.
TheConveyor Reivew: A Short Lecture of a Different Time
Theatre is an art form. Karim Muasher's A Short Lecture a Different Time shows how to craft that art into a touching performance. The production merges sound, acting, storytelling, and graphics into a powerful digital parable that has a modern moral lesson. If we can learn from the past and change, we can avoid repeating what may have happened long ago.
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CityBeat Review
by Rick Pender
A year ago Karim Muasher was part of the group Giant Bird that came to the 2009 Cincy Fringe to tell the story of the Empire of Feathers, a mythic world in which a quest was undertaken to find a rare bird. This time around, Muasher is back in a solo piece to tell a “spoken-word, multi-media bedtime story” set in a more elemental, mythic world illustrated by crude Nintendo graphics and electronic audio effects.
Read the rest of the review here
CityBeat Preview
Full article here
by Julie York Coppens
Karim Muasher says there’s a reason why we’ve never heard of the Oldverse: “You weren’t there.” Fair enough. And because this otherworld existed before the Big Bang, “there is no visible evidence,” adds Muasher. A member of last year’s Fringe favorites Giant Bird, he’s flying solo this year.
His “spoken-word, multimedia bedtime story” begins as a mysterious historian describes the Oldverse and its unfortunate infant inhabitants. Two babies, though, grow up, fall in love and discover their impending doom, and the rest is, well, it’s a theory. With Nintendo graphics. Any other questions?