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Intergalactic Nemesis Debuts Book Two: Robot Planet Rising In Austin

Updated: Monday, June 4 2012, 01:28 PM CDT
Following hit appearances on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” and NPR’s “All Things Considered” - as well as a 32-city tour of The Intergalactic Nemesis - Book One: Target Earth, Austin’s home-grown multi-media experience returns with the sequel Book Two: Robot Planet Rising, debuting on June 8 at The Long Center for the Performing Arts. 

The show will then embark on a international tour, visiting more than 32 venues in 14 states as well as three Canadian provinces and Scotland and a stop on Broadway and at the Kennedy Center.

Set in 1933 and picking up two weeks after the end of Book One: Target Earth, the new Robot Planet Rising finds Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Molly Sloan and her intrepid assistant Timmy Mendez on Robonovia, the Robot Planet, in search of the robot Elbee-Dee-Oh who has become lost in space.  But somehow, Molly's former fiancé, Dr. Lawrence Webster - the world-famous interspacio-temporal quantum physicist - has journeyed to Robonovia.

But just who is the golden robot Alphatron? And why is he being so darn nice to Dr. Webster? And what of the mysterious Soviet spy Dr. Natasha Zorokov?

Written by Jason Neulander, the story has been serialized in a set of graphic novels, with artwork by Tim Doyle.  The show features actors Danu Uribe, David Higgins and Christopher Lee Gibson recreating the serial live - with live sound effects created by Buzz Moran and the original score performed by Graham Reynolds - while hundreds of hand-illustrated comic book artwork images with line art by David Hutchison, coloring by Lee Duhig are projected panel-by-panel on a two-story, giant screen.

Following the Austin debut, The Intergalactic Nemesis will have a two-week run on Broadway at the New Victory in New York, a four-day stint at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and will play at IMAGINATE, the biggest theatre for young audiences festival in the United Kingdom - as the first American act to be booked there in more than a decade.  To date, the production will tour through 32 venues in 14 states - California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Wisconsin, Maryland, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Vermont and three Hawaiian islands - and Washington, DC, as well as three Canadian provinces and Scotland.

The Austin performance at The Long Center begins at 8 p.m.  Tickets are $19 to $49, and the show is recommended for ages 7 years old and up.

The Long Center is located at 701 W. Riverside Drive, at the corner of Riverside and South 1st Street.  For more information, visit TheIntergalacticNemesis.com.

(Image courtesy Intergalactic Nemesis)
Intergalactic Nemesis Debuts Book Two: Robot Planet Rising In Austin