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gumbo weekend featuring improv comedy and oddities from across the country |
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| FRIDAY - July 8, 2005 - 8:000pm & 10:00pm / $14 . . |
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| " Doc Walker's Olde Time Modern Day Sideshow of the Future " | Reserve
your seats now: 703.294.LAFF or BUY ONLINE |
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Damien Blade the Sword Swallower, Twistable Trinket the confortionist,
Hermaphroditie the Anatomical Wonder, Swami Yomami the Geek and more . . . |
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SATURDAY - July 9, 2005 - 7:30pm & 10:00pm / $14
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| DRUM MACHINE: Jill Bernard's one-woman improv piece, Drum Machine, has been featured at Red Curtain Cabaret, Improv-A-Go-Go, the Chicago Improv Festival, the Toronto Improv Jamboree, Philadelphia’s Female Funny Fest, and the ComedySportz National Tournament. She has taught improv all over the country, including at the Dirty South Improv Festival, the Funny Woman Fest, and the Tiny Funny Woman Fest. |
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.
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resulting amalgam plays with lazzis as plot, relationships that
are influenced by small gestures and narratives based on basic emotions
played to a more extreme degree. Imp. always holds to its basic tenets of what makes a story and its characters engaging and how the body can be used more concisely to convey those ideas. Website: http://www.yesand.com/imp/ |
CHERRY
BOMB: Veteran improvisers Adrianne Frost (The Daily
Show, Best Week Ever, Late Night With Conan O'Brien) and Karen Herr
(goga, Teen Movie High), New York's only female improv duo, debuted
at the Toronto International Improv Festival and then unleashed
their twisted humor on New York at The PIT. Back alleys; smoke filled
dance halls, day care centers. . . Cherry Bomb explores dark side of it all. Cherry Bomb is long form improvisation that promises to be funny, irreverent and always melodramatic. Take one part Pulp Fiction, one part Blue Velvet, and one part Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, throw in a heavy portion of Maltese Falcon and shake well. That's Cherry Bomb. |
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