Beasts, Brides, Spirits, & Genres in the Fringe, 2/9
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 3:40 pm
Here's the crazy plan for the Free Fringe this week (2/9/2011: The Sixth Show!)
The Bestiary, produced by Thedward Blevins
There's a pretty awesome technique/game in improv where you play your character by taking on the characteristics of animals in human form. So if you're a mouse, you might play shy but excitable.
The Bestiary takes that one step further. All the characters are animals. They cannot speak human language; they can only make animal noises.
starring: Brad Hawkins, Sandra Ybarra, Marguax Binder, Karen Jane DeWitt, Thedward Blevins
Spirit of Influence, produced by Mitchell Deane
The bareness of the improv stage is both its blessing and its curse. A few chairs, a few curtains, and our words are used to create everything in the universe. But there's so much that's unseen.
In Spirit of Influence, there will be an "unseen" person who provides the characters and scenes with subtext and texture by stating these things out loud. This can be anything from granting characters emotions such as "rage" or "euphoria" to giving them specific characteristics like "allergic to peanuts" or "has Smashmouth song stuck in his head"
starring: Mitchell Deane, Karen DeWitt, Brandon Martin, Sam Schak, and Heidi Rogers
The Library, produced by Justin Davis
We all have our own unique perspective on life. No two people are the same.
But what happens when all the people in a story literally come from different universes? The library is a long-form narrative show with each improviser playing from a different genre perspective. Science fiction, romance, horror, Southern gothic, quirky meet-cute indie movie, whatever.
One story, multiple genres.
starring: Justin Davis, Kacey Samiee, Nicole Beckley, Jon Bolden, and Karen DeWitt
Firth & Arjet
A wedding is the happiest day of a woman's life. And the most stressful. It can be regretful, exhilarating, and/or traumatic. Firth&Arjet present Always a Bridesmaid.... One gets to be a bride, the other remains just a bridesmaid. These two women bring the audience into the scene, chatting and flirting and swapping secrets with their reception guests, as they discuss life, weddings, guys, and anything else that comes to mind -- 100 percent made up on the spot. Wedded bliss or a wedded mess? With the audience's help, the answer unfolds.
Tickets are free, but you can reserve your spot here:
http://www.hideouttheatre.com/shows/thefreefringe
The Bestiary, produced by Thedward Blevins
There's a pretty awesome technique/game in improv where you play your character by taking on the characteristics of animals in human form. So if you're a mouse, you might play shy but excitable.
The Bestiary takes that one step further. All the characters are animals. They cannot speak human language; they can only make animal noises.
starring: Brad Hawkins, Sandra Ybarra, Marguax Binder, Karen Jane DeWitt, Thedward Blevins
Spirit of Influence, produced by Mitchell Deane
The bareness of the improv stage is both its blessing and its curse. A few chairs, a few curtains, and our words are used to create everything in the universe. But there's so much that's unseen.
In Spirit of Influence, there will be an "unseen" person who provides the characters and scenes with subtext and texture by stating these things out loud. This can be anything from granting characters emotions such as "rage" or "euphoria" to giving them specific characteristics like "allergic to peanuts" or "has Smashmouth song stuck in his head"
starring: Mitchell Deane, Karen DeWitt, Brandon Martin, Sam Schak, and Heidi Rogers
The Library, produced by Justin Davis
We all have our own unique perspective on life. No two people are the same.
But what happens when all the people in a story literally come from different universes? The library is a long-form narrative show with each improviser playing from a different genre perspective. Science fiction, romance, horror, Southern gothic, quirky meet-cute indie movie, whatever.
One story, multiple genres.
starring: Justin Davis, Kacey Samiee, Nicole Beckley, Jon Bolden, and Karen DeWitt
Firth & Arjet
A wedding is the happiest day of a woman's life. And the most stressful. It can be regretful, exhilarating, and/or traumatic. Firth&Arjet present Always a Bridesmaid.... One gets to be a bride, the other remains just a bridesmaid. These two women bring the audience into the scene, chatting and flirting and swapping secrets with their reception guests, as they discuss life, weddings, guys, and anything else that comes to mind -- 100 percent made up on the spot. Wedded bliss or a wedded mess? With the audience's help, the answer unfolds.
Tickets are free, but you can reserve your spot here:
http://www.hideouttheatre.com/shows/thefreefringe