Congratulations to CalCreative alumna Ida Allen-Auerbach for her play “Metropolis” with the Silverlake Children’s Theater Group! Many current CalCreative students and alumni participated in this terrific production. What an outstanding job!

Ida culminated at CalCreative in 2014 and has been at T.S. King Middle School’s Arts and Technology Magnet. Her and her brother Linus have been part of the Silverlake Children’s Theater Group program for several years. This is Ida’s first experience as a playwright.

Set in a futuristic dystopia divided into two distinct and separate classes – the thinkers – “Metropolis” describes a society where the “New World Order” has already taken been implemented and a select elite live in luxury while a dehumanized mass work and live in a highly monitored hell.

Based on the 1927 spectacular science fiction film directed by Fritz Lang, their take on “Metropolis” involves a recently-elected fascist/tyrant whose rule threatens the peace and integrity of the great city of Metropolis. It’s a futuristic nightmare of nationalism, bureaucracy and censorship that’s part “1984,” part “Brazil,” and part Pink Floyd/Talking Heads/David Bowie.