Austin Improv

Hey everybody! Andy Crouch and I are producing a run of improvised Shakespeare in January and February of 2008 (and possibly extending a couple weeks into March). Rehearsals will begin on Sundays in October and will be open to the entire community. We'll begin rehearsing twice a week in November, and will work with a core cast of improvisers at that point.

Rehearsals will consist of a lot of work on the genre conventions and language of Shakespeare. We're looking to cast an extremely solid group of improvisers to put on the best show possible.

This run will be a significant commitment (with at least one rehearsal a week, sometimes two as we approach the performance dates) but don't shy away from committing to the show immediately. Come for the first month and "feel it out".

The first rehearsal and informational session will be Sunday, September 30, 1:00-3:00 pm at the Hideout. Please let me know if you think you'll be attending. Andy and I look forward to seeing you there!

Jules
julielucas@mail.utexas.edu

We just had an excellent Start Trekkin' workshop with Rich Ross from San Francisco that got me excited about this Shakespeare show all over again. We are gonna rock the shit out of some Shakespearean improv and have fun doing it.

We're intentionally opening this rehearsal process up to anyone and everyone in the first month, so don't be shy. And we're looking at bringing hardcore improvisers from L.A. and San Francisco to run some workshops and play with us during the run.

Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you! What, shall we be merry? shall we have a play extempore?

Me. Improvised Shakespeare is exciting! I may not be up to performing, but I am glad you're opening this up for anyone who wants to try it.

Also, maybe a keyboardist would be best, but I'm interested in helping to do some music for this show -- or training someone to do what I do with music for this show. There are plenty of filmscores out there we could pull from.

will be present and enthused

The Brigadier wrote:will be present and enthused

Ditto.

Will be present and iambic.

I shall be a rare witcracker, the likes of which have ne'er been seen.

I'd like to try it

I'll be there.

This intrigues me - I'm game

damn you.

damn you all.

Lovely! Would like to be present but will be in town starting mid-october. Do you guys do distance learning?

madeline wrote:Lovely! Would like to be present but will be in town starting mid-october. Do you guys do distance learning?

Reread a couple of your favorite Shakespeare plays. Write a sonnet.

Go on a date with Kenneth Branagh.

acrouch wrote:

madeline wrote:Lovely! Would like to be present but will be in town starting mid-october. Do you guys do distance learning?

Reread a couple of your favorite Shakespeare plays. Write a sonnet.

Your distance, Madeline, from here is great.
To count those miles on hands and feet I'd fail.
I know not all that you've got on your plate,
But I bid you have fun without travail.
There are those of us who wish you were here
For projects that you say you'd love to play.
As Andy said in answer to your query,
To participate there is yet a way:
Just write a structured poem of 14 lines--
Five downbeats per line, five up, to make ten.
Use A then B, then A then B for rhymes:
Twelve lines of stanzas three, then two to end.
Still, come be with us in your soonest while,
And we’ll make these, improvisation-style.