Marilyn Monroe meets Jayne Mansfield reincarnated in sex kitten Andrea Cornett in Love Pollution

(PRWEB) August 3, 2004

Opening:

Nomenil Theatre Company and Fringe NYC present:

Sex Kitten Andrea Cornett as

Hallelujia Blythe Bliss in

LOVE POLLUTION: A TEKNO-POPERA

A CHICAGO SMASH HIT!

Uncommonly Fresh. Like no other! Yummy cast members. NEW SOUNDS. Cool Songs. Brand “Up to the second” new.

Contact: Allen Conkle 773-271-4598

Allen@nomenil.com

The Players Theatre

115 MacDougal St.

(West side of MacDougal,

just south of West 3rd Street)

Mon 8-23 7:45pm

Wed 8-25 5:15pm

Thu 8-26 3:00pm

Fri 8-27 7:45pm

Sat 8-28 2:15pm

The New York International Fringe Festival

Fringe NYC

A Production of The Present Company

All tickets $15. For tickets visit http://www.FringeNYC.org or call In New York (212) 279-4488 or Outside New York 1-888-Fringe-NYC

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As seen in American Theatre.

LOVE POLLUTION was a huge Camp-Punk Rhinoceros Fringe Festival Hit and just finished a smashing run at the Loop Theatre.

After broken bones and broken hearts the dream cannot be broken. Finally after 10 years in the making, Nomenil Theatre Company Chicago, is proud to present the New York City premiere of LOVE POLLUTION: A TEKNO POPERA.

Written by Allen Conkle and Courtney Evans, and directed by Allen Conkle with original music by Christopher Powers of Three Dollar Bill, Choreography by Jessica Hudson of Chicago Drag Kings. Lighting by Dash Laru.

LOVE POLLUTION: A TEKNO-POPERA is a contemporary adult anarchist fable. A voluptuous fembot and her quirky creators struggle to unite heart and mind in a pre-apocalyptic world of pop consumerism and ugliness.

Justin Hayford in American Theatre said, "A saavy mix of John Waters and The Brady Bunch, a campy stain on Chicago's gray flannel sensibility."

Hayford in the Reader: "Nomenil melds a punk sensibility with radical politics to create self consciously cheesy fables with fangs."

Jennifer Vanasco of the Chicago Reader described it as, "A Rocky Horror meets Pinocchio musical." Reader Critic Jack Helbig said, "The cast's remarkable comic performances are drop-dead brilliant."

The Chicago Sun Times said, "Gimme some of that, Love Pollution that is" and listed Love Pollution: A Tekno-Popera as the #1 coolest thing to do in Chicago.

Nomenil has been a part of the Chicago theater community for 12 years. LOVE POLLUTION and Nomenil have been singled out by American Theatre magazine. Evans and Conkle have been approached by one of the most powerful agencies in Hollywood and were once chosen for HBO's "Ones to Watch" list

The ensemble, a collective of actors of various levels of experience, has grown to encompass an evolving ideal towards a new dimension in theater.

LOVE POLLUTION: A TEKNO-POPERA’s score a is fused with the eclectic flavors of electronica, techno, punk, opera, pop and show tunes (and then some.) Includes: “Murder of Innocence”, a catchy up-tempo dance groove and the hauntingly beautiful ballad “The Truth is Deceiving”.

The cast features Andrea Cornett as Hallelujia Blythe Bliss, Javier Ayala, Caren Skibell, Bill Drew, Kathy Magness, Scott Webb, Timothy Rey, Matt Swanston, Anthony Apadaca, Andrea Klunder, Erin Baumrucker, Maggie Gibney, Ingrid Bonne and Rob Cameron as The Mate.

A sumptuous satire. An unpredictable experience unlike any you have been on before.

"Nomenil strives to be an elixir, a sweet tonic for symptomatic relief of ever-present societal aches and pains. Nomenil examines the issues of the day obliquely, thus keeping the emphasis on entertainment with a colorful explosion of positive human energy and camp." Del Nakamura

THE MEANING OF NOMENIL

NOMENIL was invented in 1994 by Columbia College of Chicago alumni and playwrights Courtney Evans & Alkaline Conkle.

Nomenil is a collective of creativity, drawing from a group of diverse and talented artists, designers, & performers.

NOMENIL means "no name" because there’s no name yet for this brand of theater.

The basic recipe for a NOMENIL extravaganza:

relevance & irreverence

camp & hyper-reality

color, energy & music

subversion & sexuality

ALL HIGH IN POTENCY.

The result: re-invented & updated theater for the TV cultured,

ADD over saturated audience, who appreciate a heightened

theater experience.

NOMENIL can be unexpected, inexplicable and offensive, yet also

compassionate, satirical, disarmingly thought-provoking and deliciously entertaining.

NOMENIL productions overflow with the senselessness

of explosive human energy.

THIS IS PART OF THE EMERGING DEFINITION OF NOMENIL

CRITICS ARE SAYING:

"With the best of the fringe dwellers, Nomenil has been.developing an idiosyncratic brand of high-camp subversion.

Like Our Parents Smoking Cornsilk, a show so well crafted and outrageous it seemed to shake the very foundations of Voltaire.

running it back to back with Le Bourgeois Avant-Garde, they may bring the place crashing down."

Justin Hayford, CHICAGO READER 9-19-97

"a wild wacky ride of a show, a truly unusual and inventive piece of theater.

carried out by an energetic cast in outlandish costumes.

much of it certainly is falling down hilarious.

and its creativity is impressive.

You're not likely to see anything like it on any other stage."

Trudy Ring, NIGHTLINES WEEKLY 4-96

"Watching this I felt like a bunny caught in the headlights of an oncoming circus truck- my only choice was to let it roll over me.

In stunned disbelief I could only think, what next?.

Like Our Parents Smoking Cornsilk breaks every theatrical rule

but succeeds nonetheless..

..the show's precise, high energy farce and Saturday-morning-cartoon cheeriness coat the subversive, almost surreal bleakness with sugar, and the result is irresistible.

Nomenil is a kind of shock therapy, providing a jolt that woke me up by putting me into a twisted dream, and even when I hated it,

I loved it. May I have another, sir?

Carol Burbank, CHICAGO READER 4-5-96

Contact: Allen Conkle 773-271-4598

Allen@nomenil.com