Class Description
Actors and non actors unite! Learn the power of play in this all level improv workshop. Through exploring the building blocks of improvisation, we will teach you to play at the top of your intelligence, actively listen and support your scene partners, and give you the tools for successful scene work. This workshop is designed to promote creativity, personal growth, self confidence and an opportunity to get silly with your new festival friends. Just say Yes!
Instructor Bio
Festival the Show is a satirical portrayal of festivals and festivalgoers that comments on the current counterculture to popculture trajectory of contemporary festivals. Through various mediums including sketch comedy, physical theatre, guerrilla theatre, music, dance, and circus arts they bring light to the unique phenomena and characters that exists within this amazing subculture.
In the summer of 2014 Producers Adam Doyle and Ethan ZirinBrown decided they would not let each other attend another summer festival until they made this show. With the help of fellow producer Lacy Todd they recruited two other writer/performers, Anneke Wisner and Phil Wood, to retreat into the woods and create a high caliber sketch comedy experience. All the cocreators have been impacted by and involved in festival culture since birth. From attending, volunteering, running food booths, producing, performing at, creating, and cleaning them up they have all accumulated a lifetime of research and respect regarding the topic.
They strongly believe that attendees are eager to laugh at the recurring situations, characters, and experiences that happen at festivals across the land. A few scenarios which we’ve included are: The guy who tries to contact improv dance with everyone, the couple that never leaves camp, the ironic beauty of PortOPotties, and the person who is offended by every option on the menu.
The ensemble cast of 10 performers and writers have years of combined professional experience in the fields of live musical instrumentation, music production, dance, circus arts, screen and playwriting, film production, acting, art, illusions and set construction. Combined, their skills weave a densely entertaining world of “festive” satire.