support local gallery owner, see ‘trapezoid’
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On Sunday, I took my bike to Burbank to see Gallery Row founder and local gallery Niche.LA owner Nic Cha Kim’s new play Trapezoid.
Presented by the Lodestone Theatre, it’s the first science-fiction mainstage production to explore the relationship between art and technology. The play tells the story of a Korean American poet in love hired by a technology think tank to put the “art” in artificial intelligence; an unexpected love story unfolds.
It was really a great show, and very unusual to watch a live play with interactive technology and a sci-fi theme. Trapezoid holds its final run this weekend. If you want to support his production, you’ll have venture out to Valley, but it’s worth the drive (or the bike ride).
“Trapezoid is a loose adaptation of Pygmalion and Galatea but instead of sculpture, we use poetry,” explains playwright Nic Cha Kim. “From Collodi’s Pinocchio, Shelley’s Frankenstein and Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, artificial intelligence has been a fixture of science-fiction for centuries despite only being a science for the last 65 years. Trapezoid is my homage to scientists and science-fiction writers alike.”
Directed by Chil Kong, the cast includes Julia Cho, Alberto Isaac, Lanny Joon, Elaine Kao, Charles Kim, Stephanie Lincoln, Ryan Mercado, Leonard Wu, Elpidio Ebuen, John Fukuda, Brian P Nichols and Enoch Wu.
Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm, Sundays at 2:00pm, April 19 - May 25.
GTC Burbank
1111-B W Olive Avenue
(Located inside George Izay Park)
Burbank, CA 91506
Tickets are $16 for general admission, $14 for students/seniors. Group rates of $12 each are available for reservations of ten or more.
For more information, call the Lodestone Theatre Ensemble hotline at (323) 993-7245 or visit www.lodestonetheatre.org or www.myspace.com/trapezoid2008.
6 comments
Is the play funny, creative, off beat is it just “different”?
The wife and I want to check out a show this weekend, but havent made up our minds on what to see.
I am going on Sunday. Have to. Nic and scifi gotta go.
celia and i caught the show a few weeks ago, and second (and third) the recommendation. funny, creative, and off-beat.
too bad it is in the valley.
Hopefully, if the play is as good as reported, a production can be mounted downtown.
DARN. Now Im torn. We ARE going to see a show, but we are eating and shopping in Melrose area. We routinely go out of our way to go to Downtown but Burbank is a bit too far for us. Going from Melrose to Burbank back to Melrose again is too much.
Thanks for posting it though.
Maybe next time.
we hassled nic about putting on shows downtown, but according to him, there just weren’t any suitable venues for them. there aren’t a lot of ~100 seat theaters that are actually functional in the downtown area.