In one regard, Nathan is a doting father and doctor, haunted by the sins of his past and trying to raise his daughter in a less- than-friendly world, but he is also a monstrous and skilled assassin who enjoys his work with an almost ecstatic glee. Nathan is a character possessed with an interesting juxtaposition of natures. Financing is available but should you fail to pay your debt then GeneTech will send one of their cadre of lethal surgeon/assassins after you to reclaim the company’s property.Īnothony Stewart Head plays Nathan, one of the Repo Men that GeneTech employs. To quickly sum up the plot – a large biotech firm has perfected techniques for organ harvesting and transplanting and has made these advances available to the public, for a price. This production is a shocking, horror-tinged look at what might happen should our culture’s obsession with cosmetic surgery and artificial perfection continue to their extremes.
All this makes you realize that this might not be an opera in the classical sense of the word.īased on the stage production of the same name by Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich and directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, Repo! The Genetic Opera is a new fusion of rock opera and apocalyptic futurism. But it is the little details that set the scene here: the bags of organs hanging from the vendors’ stalls, a young man wearing a woman’s face, an opera diva with mechanical eyes, and enough human oddities to cast several Tod Browning films. Will Repo! The Genetic Opera prove to be a major cult classic? film stillĪ Venetian style carnival at night, adorned in rich golds and blues, is a fine setting for any opera. After several rounds of “road tour” theater screenings Repo! The Genetic Opera was released on DVD and Blu-Ray on January 20th.
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