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Improsia is the Pacific Northwest's answer to boring meaningless lives -- three veteran storytellers perpetually moving through a vast landscape of interrelated characters and situations all motivated by the very audience partaking in the staged feast. Improsia, about as diverse as three white guys can get, is Joel Dale, the citizen rebel; John Hazlewood, the upstanding citizen of truth; and Andrew McMasters, the standing rebel of true citizenship. These three unique, seasoned improvisation professionals deftly balance multiple storylines that weave together like a frosted shredded wheat biscuit; sweet on one side, healthy on the other. This show is not one to entertain the dim-witted; their mature comedy will create in you the desire to become a better human being, or will simply send you home talking about it.
Founded in 2002, Seattle goga are an all-female Longform Improvisational group. Their shows explore the boundaries of spontaneous sketch, using character work, song, movement, poetry, gibberish, in fact any form of expression that can be used to creatively explore and entertain.
Stimulus is a fresh, organically created long-form improvisational show that attacks the senses of the audience with energetic scoring of a live band, pulsating lights, ritualistic dances, from a highly physical group of diverse performers. Each performance is completely improvised, thriving, feeding, living on a distinct mind of its own. Characters, stories, themes, songs, and unequivocally unique personalities fuel this artistic monster as it devours the audience and renders them helpless. Be warned ... we will not get audience suggestions, we will not do improv games, we will not wear funny wigs ... this is organic improvisation, pure and simple.
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Giant bugs! Aliens! You name it! Wing-It Productions, the folks that bring you Jet City Improv and Twisted Flicks, now present Project: B-Movie, a live tribute to the great monster movies of the '50s and '60s. You name where the aliens come from. You name the monster the troubled teen turns to. You name the nefarious invention the mad scientist is inventing. We make it happen. Presented in an innovative multi-media format we call Improvision.
Stimulus is a fresh, organically created long-form improvisational show that attacks the senses of the audience with energetic scoring of a live band, pulsating lights, ritualistic dances, from a highly physical group of diverse performers. Each performance is completely improvised, thriving, feeding, living on a distinct mind of its own. Characters, stories, themes, songs, and unequivocally unique personalities fuel this artistic monster as it devours the audience and renders them helpless. Be warned ... we will not get audience suggestions, we will not do improv games, we will not wear funny wigs ... this is organic improvisation, pure and simple.
Drum Machine is a solo improvised piece featuring songs, monologues, audience interaction, and multicharacter scenes.
The Scramble is an exercise in Improv insanity. From the outset, scenes play concurrently, improvisers play multiple roles simultaneously and styles have an orgy right in front of the audience's eyes. It is rooted in the style of Power Improv and the improvisational devices favored by Joe Bill. Aggressive, no holds barred, compelling and hilarious, The Scramble debuted at SFIT 2004 and has played with different casts in Seattle, Chicago, New York and Miami to rave reviews.
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Based on the saying, 'in every life, there is a comedy, and tragedy and a romance waiting to be told,' the show consists of three fully improvised vignettes. Each is played to one of the three aspects of the saying and all are inspired by a piece of music randomly selected by the audience. 'In Every Life ...' is funny, sad, poignant and thoroughly entertaining. It tells the stories that exist in us all.
What happens when you cram all of your favorite reality shows into one surreal theatrical experience? You'll find out as Wing-It Productions takes on the reality television craze in Reality World. Reality World mixes reality TV formats to create a fun-filled evening of backstabbing relationships and the foibles of human nature. Help to vote off your least favorite competitors as they battle through challenges, alliances, and lost loves. The emotions will run high as you help Reality World whittle its actors down to one ultimate survivor.
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Drum Machine is a solo improvised piece featuring songs, monologues, audience interaction, and multicharacter scenes.
We live moment to moment but rarely think about all the connections moments have to each other. What are the ingredients of a single meeting between people? In Spoken, a single scene is played out then explored though glimpses into the lives of the characters involved that led to, or were influenced by that single meeting. Like the spokes of a wheel, all scenes are connected to the same center. This show premiered in Berlin in 2004 as a collaborative English/German Language project between Unexpected Productions and The Gorillas.
Imp. is a series of improvised clowned vignettes done to improvised musical accompaniment. To achieve this, a new approach to improvisation was created, merging bouffon clowning techniques with Commedia dell'Arte archetypal ideals with narrative mechanisms from modern freeform improvisation with music inspired by Cirque du Soleil and silent film comedies. The resulting amalgam plays with lazzi as plot, relationships that are influenced by small gestures and narratives based on basic emotions played to a more extreme degree.
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From the 25 year old multi international award winning improv comedy institution Vancouver TheatreSports League come five pale Canadians and a guitar. Using nothing but radio transmissions beamed into their heads from their secret team of writers, these beer chugging cheese eating pot growing socialist users of the metric system fuse improv songs and scenes, climaxing in a rock opera that will leave you either shocked and awed, naked in an alley with amnesia, or listening to a really sincere apology.
Chairs is a one-act, completely improvised play that challenges the boundaries between improvisation and theater through an exploration of one character's life -- a character played by a cast member randomly selected in a game of musical chairs at the top of each show. Inspired by an improvised monologue, the seven-person ensemble creates a piece that tells a story about this person, their community, family and friends. While following the development of these seven unique characters, Chairs focuses on the dramatic moments in life, as well as the funny.
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Founded in 2002, Seattle goga are an all-female Longform Improvisational group. Their shows explore the boundaries of spontaneous sketch, using character work, song, movement, poetry, gibberish, in fact any form of expression that can be used to creatively explore and entertain.
BASSPROV is the story of Earl Hinkle and Donny Weaver, two lifelong friends who get together regularly to fish and wax poetic about the world and what ails them. Each performance is a peek into one of their fishing trips. High-brow, low-brow, and fun as all get-out, BASSPROV is the white-trash version of "My Dinner With Andre".
Razowsky & Clifford is a 2 person improv show that is almost as refreshing as RC cola! Their show relishes in the purist improv -- starting with nothing. Well almost nothing, an audience member decides where to place the chairs for the first scene and they're off and running. During this half hour Razowsky & Clifford visit multiple locations, characters and relationships, and in every scene only one thing is for sure -- there will be 2 chairs.
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What happens when you cram all of your favorite reality shows into one surreal theatrical experience? You'll find out as Wing-It Productions takes on the reality television craze in Reality World. Reality World mixes reality TV formats to create a fun-filled evening of backstabbing relationships and the foibles of human nature. Help to vote off your least favorite competitors as they battle through challenges, alliances, and lost loves. The emotions will run high as you help Reality World whittle its actors down to one ultimate survivor.
Imp. is a series of improvised clowned vignettes done to improvised musical accompaniment. To achieve this, a new approach to improvisation was created, merging bouffon clowning techniques with Commedia dell'Arte archetypal ideals with narrative mechanisms from modern freeform improvisation with music inspired by Cirque du Soleil and silent film comedies. The resulting amalgam plays with lazzi as plot, relationships that are influenced by small gestures and narratives based on basic emotions played to a more extreme degree.
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Based on the saying, 'in every life, there is a comedy, and tragedy and a romance waiting to be told,' the show consists of three fully improvised vignettes. Each is played to one of the three aspects of the saying and all are inspired by a piece of music randomly selected by the audience. 'In Every Life ...' is funny, sad, poignant and thoroughly entertaining. It tells the stories that exist in us all.
Improsia is the Pacific Northwest's answer to boring meaningless lives -- three veteran storytellers perpetually moving through a vast landscape of interrelated characters and situations all motivated by the very audience partaking in the staged feast. Improsia, about as diverse as three white guys can get, is Joel Dale, the citizen rebel; John Hazlewood, the upstanding citizen of truth; and Andrew McMasters, the standing rebel of true citizenship. These three unique, seasoned improvisation professionals deftly balance multiple storylines that weave together like a frosted shredded wheat biscuit; sweet on one side, healthy on the other. This show is not one to entertain the dim-witted; their mature comedy will create in you the desire to become a better human being, or will simply send you home talking about it.
From the 25 year old multi international award winning improv comedy institution Vancouver TheatreSports League come five pale Canadians and a guitar. Using nothing but radio transmissions beamed into their heads from their secret team of writers, these beer chugging cheese eating pot growing socialist users of the metric system fuse improv songs and scenes, climaxing in a rock opera that will leave you either shocked and awed, naked in an alley with amnesia, or listening to a really sincere apology.
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10:30 p.m.
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Razowsky & Clifford is a 2 person improv show that is almost as refreshing as RC cola! Their show relishes in the purist improv -- starting with nothing. Well almost nothing, an audience member decides where to place the chairs for the first scene and they're off and running. During this half hour Razowsky & Clifford visit multiple locations, characters and relationships, and in every scene only one thing is for sure -- there will be 2 chairs.
Chairs is a one-act, completely improvised play that challenges the boundaries between improvisation and theater through an exploration of one character's life -- a character played by a cast member randomly selected in a game of musical chairs at the top of each show. Inspired by an improvised monologue, the seven-person ensemble creates a piece that tells a story about this person, their community, family and friends. While following the development of these seven unique characters, Chairs focuses on the dramatic moments in life, as well as the funny.
BASSPROV is the story of Earl Hinkle and Donny Weaver, two lifelong friends who get together regularly to fish and wax poetic about the world and what ails them. Each performance is a peek into one of their fishing trips. High-brow, low-brow, and fun as all get-out, BASSPROV is the white-trash version of "My Dinner With Andre".
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Venues
HUT = Historic University Theater, 5510 University Way, N.E.
Market = Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley (1st & Pike), Pike Place Market
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