![]() Needles were brandished, exposition was hashed out lyrically, Shawnee Smith’s svelte singing voice broke into Courtney Love wailing during a ditty called “Zytrate Anatomy” – it was an experiment of the highest caliber and unlike anything you’ve ever seen. The kooky fever dream quality of the piece, with the oh-so-catchy selected tunes, was presented at an industry screening in Beverly Hills earlier this year. If you thought the concept was wild, you should have seen the short (pictured right) film Bousman shot with cast and crew members of Saw II shortly after that sequel wrapped principal photography. Set in a dissonant future where a large corporation corners the market on the growing need for internal organs, “Repo!” casts a magnifying lens over a worldwide epidemic and peers into the lives of grave diggers, spoiled rich girls, corrupt capitalists, addicts, “scalpel sluts” (we’re still trying to figure them out) and, of course, the Repo Men. We wrote the concept of this bigger than what we could ever do on stage, it’s nice to finally know that we can finally achieve it all on film.” “Both Darren and I are inspired by movies than plays anyway. “We always thought of this in film terms,” says the latter who has been writing music since he was fourteen his resume, however, contains a heavy storyboard background. Bousman directed working from a book by Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich. ![]() ![]() Repo! The Genetic Opera‘s beginnings were on the stage playing out in modest Off-Broadway venues on both coasts. ![]()
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