Warp!
| Warp! | |
|---|---|
Promotional poster for Broadway, art by Neal Adams. | |
| Written by | Stuart Gordon Lenny Kleinfeld (as Bury St. Edmund) |
| Characters | David Carson/Lord Cumulus Prince Chaos Sargon Lugulbanda Symax |
| Date premiered | February 14, 1973 |
| Place premiered | Ambassador Theatre, New York City |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Setting | Earth; Fen-Ra |
Warp!, also spelled Warp, was a trilogy of American science fiction plays created by the Organic Theatre Company of Chicago, Illinois, in 1971 by co-authors Stuart Gordon and Lenny Kleinfeld, the latter under the pseudonym Bury St. Edmund. The three parts were My Battlefield My Body, Unleashed! Unchained! and To Die Alive!.
The play of Part I (My Battlefield My Body) moved to Broadway under the name Warp! for an unsuccessful short run in February 1973.
In 1979, the Organic Theatre Company mounted productions of all three plays, each part requiring separate admission, and each with its own Playbill program.
These plays were then performed in 1980 at the Mixed Blood Theater in Minneapolis, MN, where, on closing night all three parts were performed in succession, and props and other items from the play were offered for sale, including a few signed copies of the script.
The plays and their backstories became the basis for spinoff comic books and other media.