Watch and Listen for How. . . R each actor quickly changes between characters in the story

R one actor performs two characters conversing

R the lighting and music help tell the story

Try This !R Like a Foley artist, find everyday objects that could help you make the

sound of a crackling fire (think wax paper or something similar) or an oncoming train (how about shaking a closed box of pasta?).

R Imagine a sequel (part two) to this story and share your ideas with friends.

R Reenact your favorite part of the story by voicing the roles of all the characters, being sure to change your voice and body language for each person.

R Track Molly’s journey across the globe by finding the places she visits—Romania, Tunis (the capital of Tunisia), and Scotland—on a map.

Think About . . .One of the themes, or big ideas, of the performance is destiny, or that certain things are meant to happen. During the show, think about the special purpose and destiny of each character in saving Earth.

David M. RubensteinChairman

Michael M. KaiserPresident

Darrell M. AyersVice President, Education

Additional support for Performances for Young Audiences is provided in part by Adobe Foundation; The Clark Charitable Foundation; Mr. James V. Kimsey; The Macy*s Foundation; The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation; Park Foundation, Inc.; Paul M. Angell Family Foundation; an endowment from the Ryna and Melvin Cohen Family Foundation; U.S. Department of Education; Washington Gas; and by generous contributors to the Abe Fortas Memorial Fund, and by a major gift to the fund from the late Carolyn E. Agger, widow of Abe Fortas.

Major support for the Kennedy Center’s educational programs is provided by David and Alice Rubenstein through the Rubenstein Arts Access Program.

Education and related artistic programs are made possible through the generosity of the National Committee for the Performing Arts and the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts.

Cuesheets are produced by ARTSEDGE, an education program of the Kennedy Center.

Learn more about Education at the Kennedy Center at www.kennedy-center.org /education

The contents of this Cuesheet were developed under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education. However those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal government.

© 2013 The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Please recycle this Cuesheet by sharing it with friends!

www.kennedy-center.org /artsedge

Hold on to your seats as reporter Molly Sloan and her friends race to save the planet in this radio play performed live with the help of huge art projections. Are you ready for an intergalactic adventure?

Earth faces an unusual threat--- in a very unusual performance.

A LIVE-ACTION

GRAPHIC NOVEL

BOOK ONE:

TARGET EARTH

staying seated,

staying quiet (except when

you want to laugh),

watching,

listening,

not eating or texting,

and clapping at the end

Now follow your destiny to be a good audience by:

Love a good secret? So does newspaper reporter Molly Sloan. She investigates secrets—some of the world’s darkest—and writes award-winning newspaper stories. It’s 1933, and she and her assistant Timmy Mendez are in Eastern Europe, searching for clues about a smuggling operation. But after hearing about monsters and finding a mysterious map, Molly thinks there’s an

even bigger story. To get to the bottom of what she thinks could be the “story of the century,” she and Timmy have to confront the evil Mysterion, enlist the help of strange librarian Ben Wilcott and Molly’s friend Jean-Pierre Desperois, and travel around the world and across space. Will they be able to save Earth from the evil Zygonians—the intergalactic nemesis?

The Intergalactic Nemesis is a new and unusual kind of performance called a live-action graphic novel. It mashes up, or mixes together, ways of performing stories in a creative way. You first might notice the illustrations (the “graphic novel” part of the show), like the one on this page. During the performance, you will see more than 1,000 of these drawings appear on a two-story-tall screen on stage, showing what happens in this action-packed story. Also on stage,

you will see three actors—one woman and two men—speaking into old-fashioned-looking microphones. They will perform the story as if you were watching them in a radio studio, the way stories were performed for broadcast in the 1930s and 1940s. You will also see and hear a musician playing keyboards and a sound effects artist. Even the tale itself mashes up story types—it’s part adventure, part science fiction, part romance, and part comedy.

The Intergalactic Nemesis began as a short radio-style drama performed before small audiences. Writer and director Jason Neulander then expanded it into a whole adventure, inspired by films like Raiders of the Lost Ark and Star Wars. When asked to perform the show in a large theater,

he worked with artist Tim Doyle to turn the story into a graphic novel—a book of illustrations and dialogue boxes that show and tell the whole story, kind of like a longer comic book. Those drawings became the images projected on stage during the performance.

The performance involves sounds like footsteps, doors opening and closing, fistfights, storms, trains, and lots more. If you think it takes a movie set to produce sound effects like that, think again. This performance uses mostly everyday objects and just one sound effects specialist called a Foley artist (named after the man who created the sound effects for the first sound movie in 1927). In The Intergalactic Nemesis, you can both hear and see how the Foley artist creates sound effects.

what happens in the story ? bringing the story to life

heard it on the radio

did you hear that?

a mash-up performance Imagine a time without television, computers, and smartphones. Without that modern technology, people heard the news and their entertainment—both funny and dramatic stories—from their radios. And radio producers and performers perfected the art of bringing stories to life using just voices and sound effects, while audiences used their imaginations to fill in the rest. The creative team behind The Intergalactic Nemesis took this style of performance and put it on stage.

Love a good secret? So does newspaper reporter Molly Sloan. She investigates secrets—some of the world’s darkest—and writes award-winning newspaper stories. It’s 1933, and she and her assistant Timmy Mendez are in Eastern Europe, searching for clues about a smuggling operation. But after hearing about monsters and finding a mysterious map, Molly thinks there’s an

even bigger story. To get to the bottom of what she thinks could be the “story of the century,” she and Timmy have to confront the evil Mysterion, enlist the help of strange librarian Ben Wilcott and Molly’s friend Jean-Pierre Desperois, and travel around the world and across space. Will they be able to save Earth from the evil Zygonians—the intergalactic nemesis?

The Intergalactic Nemesis is a new and unusual kind of performance called a live-action graphic novel. It mashes up, or mixes together, ways of performing stories in a creative way. You first might notice the illustrations (the “graphic novel” part of the show), like the one on this page. During the performance, you will see more than 1,000 of these drawings appear on a two-story-tall screen on stage, showing what happens in this action-packed story. Also on stage,

you will see three actors—one woman and two men—speaking into old-fashioned-looking microphones. They will perform the story as if you were watching them in a radio studio, the way stories were performed for broadcast in the 1930s and 1940s. You will also see and hear a musician playing keyboards and a sound effects artist. Even the tale itself mashes up story types—it’s part adventure, part science fiction, part romance, and part comedy.

The Intergalactic Nemesis began as a short radio-style drama performed before small audiences. Writer and director Jason Neulander then expanded it into a whole adventure, inspired by films like Raiders of the Lost Ark and Star Wars. When asked to perform the show in a large theater,

he worked with artist Tim Doyle to turn the story into a graphic novel—a book of illustrations and dialogue boxes that show and tell the whole story, kind of like a longer comic book. Those drawings became the images projected on stage during the performance.

The performance involves sounds like footsteps, doors opening and closing, fistfights, storms, trains, and lots more. If you think it takes a movie set to produce sound effects like that, think again. This performance uses mostly everyday objects and just one sound effects specialist called a Foley artist (named after the man who created the sound effects for the first sound movie in 1927). In The Intergalactic Nemesis, you can both hear and see how the Foley artist creates sound effects.

what happens in the story ? bringing the story to life

heard it on the radio

did you hear that?

a mash-up performance Imagine a time without television, computers, and smartphones. Without that modern technology, people heard the news and their entertainment—both funny and dramatic stories—from their radios. And radio producers and performers perfected the art of bringing stories to life using just voices and sound effects, while audiences used their imaginations to fill in the rest. The creative team behind The Intergalactic Nemesis took this style of performance and put it on stage.

Watch and Listen for How. . . R each actor quickly changes between characters in the story

R one actor performs two characters conversing

R the lighting and music help tell the story

Try This !R Like a Foley artist, find everyday objects that could help you make the

sound of a crackling fire (think wax paper or something similar) or an oncoming train (how about shaking a closed box of pasta?).

R Imagine a sequel (part two) to this story and share your ideas with friends.

R Reenact your favorite part of the story by voicing the roles of all the characters, being sure to change your voice and body language for each person.

R Track Molly’s journey across the globe by finding the places she visits—Romania, Tunis (the capital of Tunisia), and Scotland—on a map.

Think About . . .One of the themes, or big ideas, of the performance is destiny, or that certain things are meant to happen. During the show, think about the special purpose and destiny of each character in saving Earth.

David M. RubensteinChairman

Michael M. KaiserPresident

Darrell M. AyersVice President, Education

Additional support for Performances for Young Audiences is provided in part by Adobe Foundation; The Clark Charitable Foundation; Mr. James V. Kimsey; The Macy*s Foundation; The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation; Park Foundation, Inc.; Paul M. Angell Family Foundation; an endowment from the Ryna and Melvin Cohen Family Foundation; U.S. Department of Education; Washington Gas; and by generous contributors to the Abe Fortas Memorial Fund, and by a major gift to the fund from the late Carolyn E. Agger, widow of Abe Fortas.

Major support for the Kennedy Center’s educational programs is provided by David and Alice Rubenstein through the Rubenstein Arts Access Program.

Education and related artistic programs are made possible through the generosity of the National Committee for the Performing Arts and the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts.

Cuesheets are produced by ARTSEDGE, an education program of the Kennedy Center.

Learn more about Education at the Kennedy Center at www.kennedy-center.org /education

The contents of this Cuesheet were developed under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education. However those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal government.

© 2013 The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Please recycle this Cuesheet by sharing it with friends!

www.kennedy-center.org /artsedge

Hold on to your seats as reporter Molly Sloan and her friends race to save the planet in this radio play performed live with the help of huge art projections. Are you ready for an intergalactic adventure?

Earth faces an unusual threat--- in a very unusual performance.

A LIVE-ACTION

GRAPHIC NOVEL

BOOK ONE:

TARGET EARTH

staying seated,

staying quiet (except when

you want to laugh),

watching,

listening,

not eating or texting,

and clapping at the end

Now follow your destiny to be a good audience by: