The New York Times holds up the Philadelphia-based Berserker Residents as an example of the current surge of science fiction in modern theater.
The novelist Isaac Asimov once defined science fiction as art contending with "something that is not yet so." And while drama is the original virtual reality, an everyday exemplar of an alternative universe, sci-fi stories have made their way onto the stage far less often than into books or movies. Even though the surrealists and absurdists and symbolists have long since shown us that anything is possible onstage, most playwrights and directors prefer to hew to the laws of time, gravity and thermodynamics. Many companies, like the Berserker Residents, take a more playful approach to the genre and celebrate a deliberately low-budget aesthetic. "Our particular brand of sci-fi is very comic, goofy, irreverent, slapdash," (The Annihilation Point author Tim) Sawicki said. Original source: New York Times
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