‘Nufonia Must Fall’ at Hammer Theatre

In Culture February 13, 2019 by Nick Veronin

ROBOTOPIA: Kid Koala teams up with 'Being John Malkovich' production designer K.K. Barrett for something truly weird.

No one wants to be replaced by a newer, hipper model—especially robots, who aren’t afforded the kind of sympathy humans get when they’re dumped for the next best thing. This is the subject of Nufonia Must Fall, a multimedia hip-hopera by Eric San (Kid Koala) and K.K. Barrett. Hip-hop heads know San as the DJ and turntablist of Deltron 3030. Barrett worked on Being John Malkovich and Her. In Nufonia, which features live puppets, live video and and live music, a robot faces his own obsolescence while attempting to pen a song for the woman he loves.