Austin Improv

THIS WEEK (NOVEMBER 23rd): EPISODE 12 - SENSE(LESS)

Tickets available here: http://www.theinstitutiontheater.com/sh ... rican-live

We'll celebrate this Thanksgiving weekend with a feast of the senses and then the lack of them. We'll explore living through a life of impairment versus a life of challenge. We'll spend Black Friday in the dark, take the audience through a blind obstacle course and tell stories through sign language and music.

Featured will be:
Techcitement's Justin Davis on growing up with one ear
The Encyclopedia Show's Michael Graupmann writes a report from a sensory deprivation tank
Instructor Charlotte Simpson and counselor Yolanda Garcia from the Criss Cole Rehab Center for the Blind
Paralympian Winford Haynes
An improvised 3-Dimensional Multi-Sensory Radio Play
and more.

Our cast members/correspondents this week will be: Dan Kerrigan, Brandon Martin, Kevin Miller, Heidi Rogers, Sam Schak and Mars Wright.

Hosted by Not Ira Glass, a.k.a. Michael Ferstenfeld and produced with Asaf Ronen.

THIS AMERICAN LIVE shares much with the well-known NPR show from which it takes its name: the format, the tone, and most importantly, the enthusiasm for personal stories. However, the Live theatrical setting gives it opportunities that couldn’t be “seen” on the radio.

Each week, a different topic will be explored as led by Not Ira Glass assisted by a diverse army of performer storytellers behind him. TAL looks not only to present the widest array of narratives, but to redefine narrative. Any given show will include a mix of script and improvisation, interviews and monologues, video and sketch and dance and burlesque and whatever else the Austin talent pool has to offer.

Whatever it takes to go to the deepest reaches of that week’s theme.

Future themes include:

NOVEMBER 30th: THE LINE IN THE SAND

DECEMBER 7th: LIFE OF PRIVILEGE

DECEMBER 14th: MY STRANGE HABIT

DECEMBER 21st: INSUFFICIENT DATA

DECEMBER 28th: 24 HOURS AT...

Future guests will include David Moses Fruchter, slam poet Kevin Ruckus, sketch group Every Girl's Annual, blogger Lauren Bradley, and more.