That Cute Radioactive Couple to run again

[King of Creation]

<strong>[ Film & TV -> Article ]</strong>

<p>The Fallout-inspired play, That Cute Radioactive Couple, will be running from 10 July to 27 July in New York. They had a <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/961 ... ickstarter campaign</a> which hit its goal as well. Here's more info:</p><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 20px 10px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #121a0d;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.25; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">That Cute Radioactive Couple is a romantic comedy about the apocalypse playing this July in New York.</span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #121a0d;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>That Cute Radioactive Couple</em> is a dark comedy about a married couple who survive a nuclear war in a bomb shelter built for one. It is playing this July in the Game Play Theatre Festival in New York. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The show is written and directed by <strong>Charles Battersby</strong>, and inspired by post-apocalyptic and dystopian video games like <em>Fallout</em>, <em>Wasteland </em>and <em>Bioshock</em>, this dark comedy has bittersweet fun with end of the world.</span></p><div style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><img style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 620px;" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/ksr/assets/000 ... 1371072071" alt="Charles Battersby and Elizabeth Barkan" />
Charles Battersby and Elizabeth Barkan</span></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Previously, <em>That Cute Radioactive Couple</em> was performed at the <strong>Penny Arcade Expo</strong> in Boston, and starred Mario Bueno, Charles Battersby, Isaiah Tanenbaum, and Amanda van Nostrand.</span></p><div style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><img style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 620px;" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/ksr/assets/000 ... 1371097517" alt="Original Art Used at the Penny Arcade Expo" /></span></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Another production ran from July 7th through July 28th 2012 as part of the <strong>2012 Game Play Theater Festival</strong>, Directed by Charles Battersby, starring Len Rella*, Sam Robison and Mary Werntz. </span></p><div style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><img style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 620px;" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/ksr/assets/000 ... 1371072424" alt="The original production in 2012" width="400" />
<span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;"> The original production in 2012</span></span></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The show has been expanded from a 15-minute skit into an hour-long show that will perform again in this year's Game Play Theater Festival at the <strong><a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0096bb; text-decoration: none;" href="http://bricktheater.com/" target="_blank">Brick Theater</a></strong>. It will star Len Rella, Amanda van Nostrand, Charles Battersby, Isaiah Tanenbaum, and Elizabeth Barkan.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">We need funds to pay the <strong>cast and crew</strong>, as well as provide for <strong>insurance</strong> and some of the <strong>props and costumes</strong> that we'll use in the show.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>That Cute Radioactive Couple</em> has received some good response from the press, with<strong><a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0096bb; text-decoration: none;" href="http://kotaku.com/5929717/i-went-to-the ... so-can-you" target="_blank">Kotaku</a></strong> saying "<em>It really makes you ponder what being in such a situation is truly like</em>".</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">We want to share this experience with more people and hope you'll either join us in person or support us through Kickstarter.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">We perform on July the 10th, the 13th and the 27th, with a free preview performance on Friday July 5th. Join us in there, but bring your own supply of canned food and bottled water.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This project is part of "Kicking It Forward" and will donate 5% of our profits to supporting other projects on Kickstarter. <strong><a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0096bb; text-decoration: none;" href="http://kickingitforward.org/" target="_blank">http://kickingitforward.org</a></strong></span></p></div>

[SenisterDenister]

Great job with the black text on a dark grey background, KOC.

[bforp]

dear god, koc, just give up already and put someone else in charge (pooper), you're just the most useless piece of shit around and I don't mean that in a friendly way.

[Tofu Man]

dark grey background

Wut. You people don't use bubblegum white?

It's almost perfect but for the absence of ponies.