L.A. Premiere Comedy Kid-Simple: A Radio Play in the Flesh
Theatre/Theater (Los Angeles, CA)
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Kid-Simple: A Radio Play in the Flesh follows Moll, a child prodigy who invents a machine for hearing sounds that can't be heard. But when a shapeshifting Mercenary steals the invention (and her heart), she must embark on a quest to save sound as we know it. The show combines live sound effects, slide projections, and unruly onomatopoeia into an exhilarating and fanciful comedy.
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- "Jordan Harrison has written a rangy, complex and intellectually titillating play infused with the sheer joy of creation." --The St. Paul Pioneer Press
- "Stuffed with whizbang sight and sonic gags, sci-fi tropes, fanciful language and self-referential pokes at its own loopiness, Kid-Simple is the work of a fertile, rambunctious imagination." --Seattle Times
- "Jordan Harrison delivered the most inventive and satisfying piece [in the 2004 Humana Festival]...a thrilling abandonment of old-school literalism." --The Denver Post
- "Kid-Simple is a stunning collision of Firesign Theatre, John Cage, The Stinky Cheese Man and Sondheim's Into the Woods, a tribute to both the bangs and the whimpers with which the world ends." --Colombus Alive
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Meadows Basement is thrilled to conclude its 2005 season with the Los Angeles Premiere of Jordan Harrison's comedy KID-SIMPLE: A Radio Play In The Flesh, directed by co-artistic directors Aaron Ginsburg & Wade McIntyre. Fresh from the 2004 Humana Festival of New American Plays, this theatrical sound spectacle marks the opening of the new Theatre/Theater space, located on Pico just west of La Brea.
Kid-Simple follows Moll, a child prodigy who invents a machine for hearing sounds that can't be heard. But when a shapeshifting Mercenary steals the invention (and her heart), she must embark on a quest to save sound as we know it. Accompanied by the last boy-virgin in the eleventh grade, Moll crosses bottomless chasms and rafts raging rivers into a surreal world where sound is always more than what meets the ear. Kid-Simple is a quirky fable of innocence and experience, love and loss, which combines live sound effects, slide projections, and unruly onomatopoeia into an exhilarating and fanciful comedy.
Meadows Basement
Formed in 2001 by graduates of SMU's Meadows School of the Arts in Dallas, Texas, Meadows Basement is a collective of artists bound by a common aesthetic and shared passion for live theatre. Meadows Basement is committed to sustaining the tradition of live theatre in Los Angeles through the production of new works - focusing primarily on world and west-coast premieres of exciting up and coming young playwrights' work.
Last year, Meadows Basement's was nominated for six LA Weekly Awards, including Production of the Year for their production of "Eighteen", and their hit "Isabella's Fortune" lead LA Weekly to feature the company in an article about "LA's best ensembles."
