Lots of fun stuff coming up for this fall:
Unsound Sundays Silent Films with Live score
UnSound Sundays
Live scores to silent films
Amy K Bormet, Keyboard/vocals
Matt Dievendorf, Guitar
Brandon Woody, Trumpet
Brian Settles, Tenor Sax
Keith Butler Jr, Drums
$20 at the door
No Trick Pony with opener Melinda Rice
No Trick Pony (Bormet, Brian Settles, Keith Butler Jr.)
with Melinda Rice, violin/voice (Philadephia)
Material Sounds at
Material Things
4531 Rhode Island Ave, North Brentwood, MD 20722
$15
Sex Monsters: A Cabaret
Sex monster
a cabaret
A raunchy, ridiculous evening of rock ‘n’ roll music with a vaguely classical influence.
An original cabaret of mythological proportions featuring Jenna Murphy, Amy K Bormet, and Misy Singson. This silly, sexy ode to the supernatural is definitely not suitable for children. Each song explores the perspective of a different, fantastical lady. You’ll hear from a lusty vampire, a forgetful siren, a witch who might be the source of your sexual frustration, and Frankenstein’s ex-girlfriend- just to name a few. Maybe there will be a song about Bigfoot. But we don’t want to promise that—she’s very elusive.
Written and performed by Jenna Murphy and Amy K Bormet
This cabaret is a show-in-development! This round you’ll get even more songs and sassy banter! And then hold on to your hats as this cabaret continues to build and mature. So come by, have a drink, sing along to the songs you know, and then corner us afterwards to talk about the sex monsters you think deserve a choral ode.
Rossum’s Universal Robots
Amy K Bormet’s score for a new production of
R.U.R.
(Rossum’s Universal Robots)
by Karel Čapek
based on the translation by Nigel Playfair & Paul Selver
Oct 31-Nov 16
at the Capitol hill arts workshop
The Original Robot Apocalypse Story. Really.
Humans have invented intelligent robots that look just like them to do all their menial tasks. That is, until the robots revolt. Who saw that one coming? Famous for being the first use of the word “robot”—this play invented all the tropes.
Rossum has developed a method to create human-like robots, and a factory is built on a remote island to crank out enough robots to meet demand. Around the world, robots quickly replace humans in what are considered menial tasks: assembly lines, domestic labor, secretarial work, etc. A young woman journeys to the island to free the robots, but in her naive enthusiasm, becomes deeply embroiled in the fate of the robots, and ultimately, the fate of the human race. R.U.R. is a sci-fi melodrama before the genre existed.
