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ALL-STAR MASH UP (The World) The All-Star Mash Up will be a unique event at each performance. Each Mash Up will feature performers from different groups - some local, some culled from the visiting improvisers - creating a new improv show, style or format right before your very eyes. |
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BASSPROV (Hook in Mouth Productions, Chicago IL) Festival-circuit favorite BASSPROV is a two person longform improvisational comedy show. The main characters Donny Weaver (played by Mark Sutton) and Earl Hinkle (played by Joe Bill) are middle-aged central Indiana blue-collar guys that spend their free time fishing, drinking and solving the world's problems. Completely improvised dialogue is created while interconnecting events from the characters lives and the suggestions, all while the two men fish. This is BASSPROV's eighth visit to SFIT. (facebook.com/BASSPROV) BASSPROV performances Friday 2/19 10:30pm (The HUT) Saturday 2/20 8:00pm (The Market Theater) |
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Bunker 13 (Wing-It Produtions, Seattle, WA) Bunker 13 is an improvised long form comedy revolving around the lives of five soldiers in Vietnam, 1968. The show explores the friendships and hardships of Sarge, Mick, Joker, Rhino and Z through improvised dialogue, flashbacks, letters from home and trips "downrange" into the jungle. Brutally funny, heartbreaking and profane - love them or hate them, you won’t forget the men of Bunker 13. (Bunker 13 website) "The show captures life among men in the military so well that one would have a hard time believing that it is improvised." - Examiner.com Bunker 13 performances Thursday 2/18 8:00pm (The HUT) Friday 2/19 10:30pm (Market Theater) |
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Confidence Men: Improvised Mamet (Austin, TX) You know what it takes to improvise a David Mamet play? Balls. Brass Balls. It takes brass balls to improvise a David Mamet play. Listen friend, the six intrepid members of Confidence Men have brass balls in spades and they are not afraid to use them to unfold the seedy underbelly of whatever the audience suggests on the spot. Every show, a new play will be improvised in the style of such great works as Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed-the-Plow and House of Games, with all the rat-a-tat and grift of its actual predecessors. Featuring a live saxophonist!(confidencemenimprov.com/) "Dialogue so smooth, interplay so effortless, you couldn't believe the scene hadn't been rehearsed" - The Austin Chronicle Confidence Men performances Friday 2/19 8:00pm (The HUT) Saturday 2/20 10:30pm (The HUT) |
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Dirty Laundry (Wing-It Productions, Seattle, WA) This improvised couples' thereapy provides a comedic look at love, lust and marriage. We take suggestions from a real-life couple sitting in the audience, reflecting on their current or past relationship. Through therapy sessions and full-fledged scenes of "reenactments", we show just how awful or amazing the relationship could be come.(Dirty Laundry website) "To say that the show was funny is like saying the Grand Canyon is deep" - Examiner.com Dirty Laundry performances Saturday 2/20 8:00pm (The HUT) Saturday 2/20 10:30pm (The Market Theater) |
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French Farce (Parallelogramophonograph, Austin, TX) PGraph's improvised French Farce is an exploration of the latent comedy in social status. Infidelity, insecurity, and insatiable appetites for wealth and power collide with riveting consequences. No topic is taboo; no neurosis too absurd. Rich in physical humor and word play, French Farce is a delight to watch. We turn a blank stage into a French salon, a blank script into sharp social commentary, and improv comedy into théâtre improvisé. (pgraph.com) "They had the whole audience laughing itself silly" - Austinist.com French Farce performances Thursday 2/18 8:00pm (The Market Theater) Saturday 2/20 8:00pm (The HUT) |
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Gillett & Sutton (Seattle, WA and Chicago, IL) This show features one of Seattle's finest performers, Adina Gillett, paired with BASSPROV's Mark Sutton. In the return of this original improv show "Afterthoughts", Gillett and Sutton will bring their unique styles to the same stage to create a series of improvised scenes that show what's in a person's mind and what's in their words are seldom the same. This is Gillet & Sutton's third year at SFIT. Gillett & Sutton performance Thursday 2/18 8:00pm (The HUT) |
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Girls Girls Girls (Austin, TX) Girls Girls Girls is Austin's oldest all-female improvisation troupe. Our specialty is creating long-form improvised Broadway musicals from a single audience suggestion. The Girls and their live musician make up the songs, dances, characters, and stories all on the spot to create one complete story. (Girls Girls Girls website) Girls Girls Girls performances Friday 2/19 10:30pm (The Market Theater) Saturday 2/20 10:30pm (The HUT) |
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Help Wanted (Quiet Monkey Fight, Seattle, WA) QMF brings SFIT their latest improvised format that reflects today's times. The show starts with a never heard of before company that has immediate plans to layoff its employees. QMF then pulls forth the background stories that each of the workers brings to the workplace. In the end, we have a complete story that shows the rise and fall of a company and the employees that helped build it. quietmonkeyfight.com/ Help Wanted performance Friday 2/19 8:00pm (The HUT) |
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Improsia (Seattle, WA) Improsia is a three-performer, long-form improvised show in the style that is known as v3. v3 is recognized by the following qualities: the story revolves around a simple central idea, character or plotline; for the sake of storytelling, the actors can switch characters and locations whenever needed, meaning transitions between places and people in the story are seamless. Also, the characters are not tied to any one actor - they are tools to tell the story, and can be used by any performer at any time. This is Improsia's seventh performance at SFIT. (improsia.com) Improsia performance Thursday 2/18 8:00pm (The Market Theater) |
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Puppet TV (Seattle, WA) Puppet TV is a multi-media improv show featuring puppets. It occasionally runs a little blue, but is absolutely the best improv puppetry in Seattle. (puppetthis.com) Puppet TV performance Friday 2/19 8:00pm (The Market Theater) |
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Team X (Santa Monica, CA) Known as "The Voltron of Improv Comedy," Team X (performing their format (Ninjavocation) is truly a team that together is stronger than the sum of its parts. Team X delivers 25 minute longform improv with passion, commitment, intelligence and lots of humor. teamximprov.com/ Team X performance Friday 2/19 8:00pm (The Market Theater) Saturday 2/20 8:00pm (The HUT) |
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Unexpected Theatre (Unexpected Productions, Seattle, WA) Unexpected Theatre explores movie, theatre, and literary genres unscripted as well as a multitude of improvisational formats from satire to spoof, from silly to serious. unexpectedproductions.org Unexpected Theatre performance Friday 2/19 10:30pm (The HUT) |
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The Seattle Dust-Up The Dust-Up is SFIT's unique answer to the improv festival jam. Click here for more info. |
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