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WARP! The sci-fi play

 
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Dr Acula
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 25, 2016 12:12 pm    Post subject: WARP! The sci-fi play Reply with quote
Having read the comics, I've been obsessed with seeing what the play was actually like. From Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warp!
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Warp!, also spelled Warp, was an American science-fiction play created at Chicago, Illinois' Organic Theatre Company in 1971 by co-authors Stuart Gordon and Lenny Kleinfeld, the latter under the pseudonym Bury St. Edmund. The play moved to Broadway for a short run in February 1973. The play and its backstory became the basis for spinoff comic books and other media.

David Carson, an everyday bank teller, learns that he is Lord Cumulus, "avenger of the universe".Suddenly transported from an annual employee-awards dinner to the mystical realm Fen-Ra, he finds himself battling for the destiny of the universe against antagonist Prince Chaos. In this world, he encounters the sage Lugulbanda who sends him on his quest aided by the leather-clad Amazon warrior Sargon. They battle Valaria the insect sorceress and Chaos' henchman, the purple ape Symax.


I've found some interesting video here:

http://mediaburn.org/video/warp-discussion-part-i-2/

http://mediaburn.org/video/warp-discussion-part-ii-2/

where they talk about it, but it's kinda dry.

It's still being performed occasionally tho:
http://www.triblocal.com/niles/community/stories/2009/10/niles-north-theatre-presents-warp-the-worlds-first-science-fiction-epic-adventure-play-in-serial-form-this-month/
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 25, 2016 1:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Well, it certainly appears that the producers of the play worked hard to make it look like a sword-and-sorcery comic book, so a comic book series based on it would certainly have no trouble running with the idea!

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I'll bet the theater patrons occasionally go to the show in costumes, the way the devoted fans of the Batman films (and Rocky Horror Picture Show) sometimes do!
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 25, 2016 8:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
And as fans of the STAR WARS films do a lot!
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