Here is the official trailer for “The Remains of Neverland”! Original score by Robert James Trujillo and direction by Michael Verderber. The flyer is visible below; design by Merideth Harvey.
One MAJOR change: there was a problem with the building, so the show performances are scheduled for March now!

Official “Remains of Neverland” flyer; design by Merideth Harvey.

An unscheduled video just popped up into our productions! As an entry to the #StylophoneGenR8Comp synthesizer competition, DJ Oringe / Michael Verderber put together this video from the complete track from “Zellen”, footage from the “in[somnia]” trailer, and some new footage! We wish him luck in the contest! The video is viewable above!

DJ Oringe logo

The eleventh Dark Tour is finally upon us! February marks a return to the Carroll Ward (home to 2016’s “Neverland Lost” production). “The Remains of Neverland” returns the Dark Tour to its roots in both production and performance space. Collaborating with Gamerz Elite, they have rented the entirety of Sam Fore Hall (home to the first six Dark Tours) to bring the next major production to light.

Rehearsals have already on the work, with a guerilla advertising campaign starting soon featuring the Carroll Ward’s logo (seen at left). Making an appearance in the production will be familiar characters such as Hansel, Rapunzel, Pinocchio, and many others.

Cast information is on the official show page.

Enjoy our latest and weirdest film to date – THE MATTRESS, a comedic puppetry spoof of “The Matrix” film. Written by Erik Helsing and directed by Michael Verderber, this is the first premiered project in our OBJECT-ionable Puppetry series. The newly formed series, explores utilizing multiple forms of puppetry using “found” objects instead of using traditionally constructed puppets.

Principal editing was done by Amber Badger (previously assisted in “Zellen”) and features the voice work of veterans Robert Trujillo, Josue Villarreal, and Justin Minter. Puppeteers were Andrea Lorin, Michael Verderber, and Katherine Orozco-Verderber.

What do puppets, marshmallows, and bread have in common? They are all features in our #ZeroLife video projects and trailers for forthcoming works. We have a handful of video projects lined up and already out, so here is a quick recap of this month’s goodies. We have a trailer for our upcoming puppetry film “The Mattress”, a #ZeroLife of the gang eating gross marshmallows, and an upcoming Christmas song that will be posted soon.

As promised, “Banana But Bread”:

Check out “The Mattress” trailer here (viewable on YouTube):

Check out “#ZeroLife Marshmallow Roulette” (viewable on YouTube):

Official “Let It Snow-verture” flyer, design by Merideth Harvey.

Zero Untitled is juggling several short works that will culminate into our annual Christmas-themed show – “Textual Let It Snow-verture” (curated by Julio Martinez)! For a few weeks now, two short plays “A Merry Delta Christmas” (by Katherine Orozco-Verderber) and “Rekindled” (by Michael Verderber) have been in the rehearsal process, Premature Punchline (our in-house comedy troupe) have been developing holiday-themed games, and Christmas songs are being rehearsed as well.

See at left: Ashley, Stephanie, and McKinna rehearsing “Christmas Party Quirks.” Performance is scheduled for December 6th and 7:00 at The Flower Box in Kingsville, TX. Admission is FREE.

Below are photos of the rehearsal process, so far.

Emilia and Marina in “A Merry Delta Christmas”

Jacki and Bryan in “Rekindled”

Merideth and Faith rehearsing in PrePunch.

Trailer #1:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQjVHnC5mNk

Trailer #2 “Car Trailer”:

in[SOMNIA] flyer by Merideth Harvey

in[SOMNIA] flyer by Merideth Harvey, EC version

Under the direction of Katherine Orozco-Verderber and Michael Verderber, the trailer pays homage to a horror classic.

Trailer #3 “We All Are” –

Some incriminating videos of the Zero Untitled gang have popped up recently, so we turned them into #ZeroLife videos. For those not in the know, #ZeroLife is our short work series of random behind-the-scenes, short works, video mini projects, music covers, and other assorted goodies that don’t fit into our Main Stage season nor into Textual Overture.

The two recently released videos, both filmed by Rebekah Ramos, are out now. The first, “And Then There Were FUN!” is a rehearsal outtake in which actor O’Ryan White improvises his final speech to the enjoyment of the cast in our 2016 production of “And Then There Were None”. You can see the video at the bottom of this post.

The second, “Basketball Diaries” is a narrated by Ramos and Katherine Orozco-Verderber. While we were doing productions at The Elks Lodge, the Elks asked us to help out with a basketball event for some local kids. Having arrived early, the gang decide to TRY to shoot some hoops.

UPDATE (Sept 26). A demo of an acoustic rock song called “My Eyes Met Yours” by Michael Verderber!

UPDATE (Nov 4). “How ‘Bout Them Apples?” (The ZU crew failing at the Apple Splitting Challenge).

Our experimental science fiction short has been released on YouTube! Check it out below!

“Zellen” is a sci-fi silent film developed around the score. The music came first and then the film was conceptualized from the music and sound effects. In essence, it was scored in reverse more like a music video. The primary purpose of the film is to experiment with the score, audio SFX, and the aural qualities developed from a bounty of synthesizers and experimental music equipment.