Fool Muun Komming!
A traveler from beyond the stars is coming to prepare you. For what? For the giant asteroid hurtling toward Earth, of course! Carl Sagan meets Andy Kaufman meets Marcel Marceau on acid in, Fool Muun Komming!, a kaleidoscopic love letter to science fiction, the imagination, and weirdos everywhere.
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See https://theatreinlondon.ca/2017/05/fool-muun-komming/ for details.
Location: Procunier Hall
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See https://theatreinlondon.ca/2017/05/fool-muun-komming/ for details.
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2:30 pm Fool Muun Komming!
See https://theatreinlondon.ca/2017/05/fool-muun-komming/ for details.
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Imagine if you will, an alien who has been prepping for his arrival to earth and its citizens for years. Who has absorbed TV, Movies and Youtube, gleaning obscure cultural references hoping to understand humans better.
Who has endured daily Globstop burnings and the malicious machinations of Cat Stevens (who knew aliens had cats?).
This is the story of Fool Mun and Loverock as they project themselves on an unwitting audience of humans. They assure us “that none of this is real” while they cause you to relate to their silliness. Because their silliness is OUR silliness.
You laugh at their expectations of being embraced by Earth. But that same laughter turns to sadness, when they realize they have over shot Earth and may never return.
Fantastic technically, lighting and music is over the top. For sure one of the best technical shows of Fringe 2017.
A fantastic show full of comedy and touching moments. Sure to be popular with all aliens and theatregoers.
Surprisingly poignant and superbly acted, Fool Muun Komming! is a must see for this London Fringe. Playwright and lead actor Sam Kruger held the audience spellbound as he birthed himself into what we are soon informed is a collective hallucination, to prepare us for our first contact with him -an alien!- and the asteroid that is bringing him to Earth. The premise of an alien making first contact is made fresh and intriguing through clever writing, beautiful delivery and the vulnerability of Kruger. The following 50 minutes of the show are wonderfully twisted as we move from stories of the alien’s home, to his daily life on board the asteroid to his visions for his arrival on Earth (involving Oprah, Crystalized David Bowies and more). I come to Fringe to be surprised and moved and Fool Muun Komming! delivers both in spades, along with ample laughs and a reminder of the joy of discovery. Kruger is a skilled physical actor, along with producing dialogue that was delicious to hear. He was able to believably portray what it might look like for someone with no words, and no use for language and in doing so, point out both the beauty and absurdity of being reliant on language as humans are. He is accompanied occasionally by the voice of his asteroid, played charmingly by Steve Day, and the two have an obvious and easy chemistry. This is a warm, enveloping and delightful show, not to be missed!
5/5
Fool Muun Komming — Not Quite Full, but Potential to Wax
Fool Muun Komming is fringey. Not quite able to be defined; not quite finished; but certainly representative of the oddball quirk that only Fringe theatre can provide.
Steve Day plays an alien who is coming to Earth on a crash course for a first-contact meeting of two peoples. Of course, there’s a good chance that the asteroid that Day is riding will destroy the very people that he’s excited to meet — but that point escapes him.
The alien has been inundated with Earthly culture through the miracle of sound and audio waves. He’s a card-carrying member of the YouTube generation with a fairly passable command of the English language — even if the subtleties of language sometimes escape him.
Fool Muun Komming often feels random just for the sake of being random. It’s quirky, but often with no direction. Day channels his inner Ed Grimley in terms of movement, with a side order of Jim Carrey as it relates to reactions.
The play is still a work in progress, Day admits, with changes coming on a nightly basis. It wanes (pun fully intended) in the middle part of the production and it seems to be missing both a connecting thread and a sense of resolution. Of course, that may be the intent as sometime life, and the events that define it, don’t have a greater purpose.
Fool Muun Komming is periodically entertaining, with the potential to become something more. Hopefully this initial foray is just representative of this Fool Muun’s waxing phase.