An Evening of Steampunk & Robot Theatre!

Greetings Legionaires, Lucretia Dearfour here letting you know that, first and foremost... WE HAVE A NEW BLOG SPACE!  And you're in it! 

But also the Legion successfully traversed our way to the mighty north of Portsmouth NH to view An Evening of Steampunk and Robot Plays being put on by John Herman at The Players' Ring (www.PlayersRing.org)!

 

The General and Cordelia left on their own, attempting to clear the way for Baron and my travel up the Highway of 95 however we still met a familiar enemy which kept us from our destination. 3 hours of gridlock traffic.  Baron and myself finally defeated our slow moving foe by screaming at it, hoping, and debating taking roads off the highway...  but, as if always the case with gridlock traffic, the SECOND we had the ability and the resolve to escape it's clutches it gave us a way out. 

We made it in the nick of time however and were able to sit in the front row of the intimate space.  As we entered two men in goggles, ski boots, tap lights, and various debris were playing gameboys and walking around the stage.  At first I thought this was a bit of Theatre of Cruelty, to have two people playing a game we could never play and could never watch.  It turns out the two were The Attic Bits, who were in fact NOT playing Game Boys with each other but creating music with them as we sat and watched them!  We're not talking Game Boy Pockets either I mean the Game Boys that looked like amazing '80s cell phones!

I digress, THE PLAYS!  They were amazing fun.  All of them, as well as about 8 others that didn't get produced and a few pieces of visual art can be found on producer John Herman's website as well at http://www.johnherman.org/

Each piece was unique reflecting themes such as one individual's feelings versus society, the feelings of the dead and the lost, and even the feelings of handcrafted neurotic automatons!  Also pay attention... a Sonic Screwdriver may show up here or there.  Speaking of which, the props were very well crafted!  We, as we often find ourselves doing, were picking apart each one to try and figure out where and what each piece had been previously.  We saw everything from Hair bands that acted as feeding collars to bug zappers as Tesalating Shot guns!  The set was minimalist but effective.  They tried to have use for every piece that they created in multiple scenes.

If you have the time, the show runs until October 10th, a good time will be had and all proceeds go to New Hampshire Association of the Blind’s 2020 VisionQuest, as well as two other worthy charities. 

Steampunk and Robot Plays Produced by John Herman and The Players' Ring, you have been Legion Approved!  Continue spreading the Brass Sickness!