Improsia Comes to the Curious Main Stage.
This weekend, after taking in the Neutrino Project’s latest, improvised, made-while-you-watch movie, catch Improsia. One ticket gets you into both shows (just check the schedule).
Improsia is one of Seattle’s most respected improv troupes. Founded in 1998, Improsia has performed around the country, for years being the only representative of Seattle in the national improv circuit. The group has taken many forms until settling down into a three person long form show. Joel Dale is the co-founder of Improsia and Seattle Neutrino Project. Andrew McMasters is the co-founder of Jet City Improv and Wing-It Productions. Douglas Willott is the developer of the smash hit Election Show. Together they have one collective goal, engage the audience’s minds one hundred percent. An Improsia performance is comedic, dramatic, and intelligent. Performing their original show format “v3″, Improsia stunned their sold out audience at the Chicago Improv Festival with a darkly comedic show about how divorce affects families. Fellow improvisors declared that they had never seen anything like it before while other audience members stated that it was the kind of show that they would keep talking about, discovering new things as they peeled back the layers. That is the goal, fully engage the audience.
About the show format “v3″:
v3 is recognized by the following qualities: the story revolves around a simple central idea, character or plot line. For the sake of storytelling, the actors can switch characters and locations whenever needed, meaning transitions between places and people in the story are seamless. Also, the characters are not tied to any one actor and can be played by any performer at any time.
v3 was developed as a response to the idea that much as a scripted work goes through iterations to focus only on the most engaging sections, an improvised show can recognize which element is most interesting and move to that. The end result being a whirling and active show that focuses on a set of people, how they are related to each other, and how they relate to each other.
That is all technical, from an audience perspective v3 is ultimately about people:who people are, what makes them tick, how they relate to one another.
The Cast:
Douglas Willott
Andrew McMasters
Joel Dale
Jana Healy
