New York City - Everybody is afraid of something, right? Not necessarily - in the Mutant Weirdos Production of "The Grimm Show (or the Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was)", we meet an odd boy who goes out into the world to discover the meaning of "shuddering in fear". On his way through this 60-minute multi-media extravaganza based on the parable by the Brothers Grimm, he meets a gruesome cast of characters and finds good fortune.

Told through an eclectic variety of song styles and computer/video graphics, "The Grimm Show" incorporates pre-recorded video, live camera feeds, animation, text, pre-sequenced music and sound. While the story is told primarily through monitors and projection, "live performers" push the story forward, perform music, trigger events, operate video cameras and mix sound and video. They also play live instruments (such as flute, concertina, clarinet, guitar and accordion). The Grimm Show's first iteration as a website was commissioned by New American Performing Arts (funded by the Jerome Foundation) for its Turbulence Project. It went online July 1996 (www.turbulence.org).

Mutant Weirdos is a collaboration between Jeremy X. Halpern (founder of the multimedia performance group Verge, and proprietor of 1-800-Weirdos, a retail outlet for independent artists) and M.R.Petit (creator of the highly acclaimed "Mutant Gene & Tainted Kool-Aid Sideshow").

A New York City preview of "The Grimm Show (or the story of the youth who went forth to learn what fear was)" will be presented at VOID (16 Mercer Street, one block north of Canal Street) Friday, July 11th at 8 pm , admission is free. "The Grimm Show" will also be presented at Siggraph 97-The Electric Garden as a DVD-ROM prototype (8/97, Los Angeles, CA), The 8th International Symposium of Electronic Arts/ ISEA (9/97, Chicago, IL), and the Mixed Messages: images text technology Festival (10/97, Charlotte, NC).

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