FRINGE REVIEW: Iminami

The aerial acrobatics, video scenes, and elaborate puppets enhance the strangeness of this already spectacular tale, the third from Philly Fringe vet C.W. Kennedy, who made cosmic waves at last year's fest with Water Bears in Space.

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FRINGE REVIEW: Iminami

POSTED: Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 12:15 PM

Every year, there's hundreds and hundreds of performances at the Philly Fringe and Live Arts Festival, and unless it's one of the big shows, it's sometimes hard to tell what you're going to get. Here at Critical Mass we're sending writers to as many shows as we possibly can for 75 pocket-sized reviews over the course of the fest. Check back in with us at On The Fringe every day for real talk on what these things actually are!

SHOW: Iminami

GROUP: PuppeTyranny

GENRE: Theater

ATTENDED: Mon., Sept. 10, 8 p.m.

CLOSES: Fri., Sept. 21

BRIEF SELF-DESCRIPTION: As a devastating iminami plunges Earth into chaos, the last vestiges of scientific reason flee to the moon Enceladus in a post-apocalyptic drama of two worlds. The creators of the “transcendently bizarre” Water Bears in Space bring you a new sci-fi epic replete with puppets, aerialists, and a live score.

WE THINK: Iminami is the Japanese word for mega tsunami, the cataclysmic event that kicks off this wonderfully weird production about post-apocalyptic Earth-dweller Rene Junot (Kate Black-Regan) and her moon-based confidant Interplanet Janet (Mary Wood). The aerial acrobatics, video scenes, and elaborate puppets enhance the strangeness of this already spectacular tale, the third from Philly Fringe vet C.W. Kennedy, who made cosmic waves at last year’s fest with Water Bears in Space.

Rene and Janet’s desperate desire to exchange situations keeps Iminami from becoming too silly of an affair though. Credit goes to Black-Regan and Wood for performances that give an otherwise absurd play about derangement, drugs, and domination some heart — or as attendees soon discover after a remarkable chain of events — meat.

—Michael Blancato

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