November 28th 2009- TOKYO.
Rising Sun Theatre and Figure8Productions are serving up a rare brand of dark comedy for Tokyo audiences. Announcing the opening of Jamie Morris’s aberrantly humorous (possibly offensive) Emperor Fabulous. Four evening shows on: November 28th/29th and the following weekend of December 5th/6th.
Set in an insane asylum, the two-act play follows the hilarious struggles of a scientist and the artists (patients) in his care who are on the verge of fame and success. They soon have to deal with the press trying to uncover the secrets of the place. Enter Dara Brooks (Helene Salvini Fujita, of Tokyo International Players’s Richard III) she’s an ambitious writer who lets nothing get in the way of a good story – not even the facts. Dara tours the asylum under the careful watch of Dr. Glen (Tokyo newcomer Daniel Dabbs) and builds her story on resident artists who partake in sensory deprivation trials design to explore creativity. To her delight, she learns that there is definitely more to the residents of Glen Crest then savant inspired genius. Take Mantz, a mysterious catatonic painter played by Tokyo theatre veteran, Dwayne Lawler (Tokyo Vampire, Macbeth at The New national Theatre of Tokyo). And what of his foil? An autistic performance artist named Hernandez (Tokyo newcomer Jeff Ruiz). In their conflict, there can only be one fabulous enough for the limelight! The characters of Emperor Fabulous reach high for their place at the top-of-the-heap, but atop a pile of what exactly? As any good ruler would feint, “You be the judge.”
For the emperor’s “subjects” (the audience) a challenging blend of ambition, psychology and insanity await, but most of all, political incorrectness at its most hilarious! Should we be laughing?
Join writer/director Jamie Morris, director of Mamet to Shakespeare, as he presents his audacious writing debut for the stage. As head of Figure8Productions, an international multimedia company based in L.A and Tokyo, Jamie Morris has worked in Tokyo’s independent film industry (Sayonara Speed Tribes, A Quiet Revolution) and music scene (indy band: The Device) for over six years now. But creatively it’s time to return to the stage and join Tokyo’s theatre community. Emperor Fabulous is a concept the California native has thought about for years now since Schwarzenegger (The Terminator) was crowned the gov-inator. As the English comic Eddie Izzard says: “There should have been an Emperor Fabulous - I’m The Emperor Fabulous!” No, you’re not, he lives at Glen Crest Insane Asylum.
For more information, photos, interviews or press comp tickets, please
visit: www.figure8productions.com
or contact the producers :
Dwayne Lawler: risingsunmail@ybb.ne.jp
Jamie Morris: info@figure8productions.com
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