METRONOMA August 3, 2006

OPENS THIS THURSDAY...
in the COLD Ontological Theater!

METRONOMA
go here to watch a 3 minute trailer:
http://31down.org/

August 3-12
Thursday through Saturday at 8pm.
Fridays second showing at 10 PM.

Presented by the Ontological Theater
at St. Mark's Church
131 East 10th Street, New York City

tix: Adults $17 and Students $12
Call Theatermania for reservations: 212.352.3101
or go to: http://ontological.com/

With: Shauna Kelly, Jonathan Valuckas and Mike Sharpie.

31 Down radio theater's METRONOMA, a haunted sound portrait of evil
and isolation that evokes the solace of a long walk with H.P.
Lovecraft in a bitter New England forest of the 1930's.
http://31down.org/performances/metronoma.html

Mike Sharpie plays a young Robert Bloch, whose fame would rise in the
late 1950's with his novella PSYCHO, based on the real life crimes of
Ed Gein.

Bloch and Lovecraft were friends and our story is about their
memorable first meeting orchestrated by the enigmatic METRONOMA. The
action takes place in 1937, just before Lovecraft's departure to
Yuggoth, the mysterious ninth planet of our solar system.

A hauntingly disturbing music score lies beneath 31 Down's use of
technological antiquities in this glimpse into the minds of two of
pulp's most notorious imaginations.

Sam Thielman of BackStage calls METRONOMA, "terrifically disturbing."

'Yuggoth... is a strange dark orb at the very rim of our solar
system... There are mighty cities on Yuggoth—great tiers of terraced
towers built of black stone... The sun shines there no brighter than a
star, but the beings need no light. They have other subtler senses,
and put no windows in their great houses and temples... The black
rivers of pitch that flow under those mysterious cyclopean
bridges—things built by some elder race extinct and forgotten before
the beings came to Yuggoth from the ultimate voids—ought to be enough
to make any man a Dante or Poe if he can keep sane long enough to tell
what he has seen...'
—H. P. Lovecraft, "The Whisperer in Darkness"

Official Website: http://31down.org/performances/metronoma.html