Tennessee Williams UnScripted: Improv Show at Theatre Asylum
Theatre Asylum (6320 Santa Monica Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90038)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00*
* Additional fees apply.
All offers for Tennessee Williams UnScripted have expired.
The last date listed for Tennessee Williams UnScripted was Sunday May 31, 2009 / 7:00pm.
Currently at Theatre Asylum:
Improvatorium's Pure Improv: Scenes, Songs and Games
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00
Improvatorium, the company that brought you Zombience and Hitchcocked, brings you Pure Improv, a hilarious short-form improv show at Theatre Asylum. With long-form improv currently in fashion, Improvatorium returns to improvised scenes, songs, extended scenes, and traditional improv games that are now almost considered retro. The show is directed by Patrick Bristow (Ellen, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Who's Line is it Anyway?) and stars a rotating cast with a new special guest each show. Learn More
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Plenty of street parking is available around and behind the theater.
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Well-lit street parking in the Theater Row neighborhood.
46 Goldstar Member Reviews
Dijou
We were quite impressed with how well the play flowed and how well-defined the characters were for a show that is totally improved. I would definitely come back and see this company again!Written on Apr 06 2009
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Sharon Baranoff
This show was so well done, spontaneous, clever and quite funny. It was performed in the style of Tennessee Williams but the action was in the moment, based on prompts from the audience, the dialogue was created on the spot. Now I am tempted to see the show again, curious to see what this troupe would do with different prompts. The experience was such fun!Written on May 11 2009
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Polemic
I had a great time. The troupe's timing and innovation was astonishing. This is definitely a great outing, even if you are unfamiliar with Williams' work.Written on Apr 13 2009
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monkeyface
I saw the Jane Austen Unscripted and loved it. This one was also well done and I had a blast. I will go again!Written on Apr 27 2009
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More Information About Tennessee Williams UnScripted
Quotes & Highlights
- Critic's Choice. Hilarious...absurd and genuinely moving, the evening showcases the troupe’s tremendous agility and infectious sense of play…Absolutely in keeping with Williams…Irresistible…makes you want to go back again.” --- Charlotte Stoudt, LA Times
- “Verry funny…charming…remarkably smooth.” -- Jennie Webb, Backstage West
- GO. Tenderly comedic…savvy…lingers somewhere between satire and homage. It’s a very smart choice.” --Steven Leigh Morris, LA Weekly
- “Improv geniuses…Absolutely hilarious…a different show every time…they let loose their imaginations and the rest is magic.” --Steven Stanley, StagesceneLA
Description
<p>Impro Theatre, one of L.A.’s longest established and most acclaimed improv theater groups, presents Tennessee Williams UnScripted. This is their follow-up show to their well-reviewed, held-over run of Jane Austen UnScripted which ran from Oct 2008 through February 2009 at Theatre Asylum.
Tennessee Williams is one of the most celebrated and widely produced American playwrights. In an attempt to bring his genius to life through the medium of improvisational theatre, Impro Theater invents spontaneous full-length plays about troubled families, innocent outsiders and the haunted youths who destroy them that are true to Tennessee Williams’ intent to be both comic and dramatic. Without any pre-planning, or set scenarios, Impro Theatre uses their dynamic characterizations, poetical wits and narrative skills to deliver a new Tennessee Williams play every night. Drifters, Southern aristocrats, rebels, harpies and wounded youth all might be conjured out of thin air, without any actor knowing who they will be portraying until the story starts. Tennessee Williams UnScripted takes clichés from mid-century American realism and transforms them into in a wildfire of seduction and despair that leaves some hope glowing in the ashes.
The essence of Williams brilliant and timeless poetic dramas and bittersweet meditations on human frailty is brought faithfully to life by this expert team of funny and gifted actors, whose recent explorations of great literary figures include Shakespeare, Dickens, Sondheim, and Jane Austen. </p>
About the Ticket Supplier: Combined Artform/Theatre Asylum
Founded in 1998, C.A.F.E. (Combined Artform Entertainment) is on a mission to develop and combine all art forms to pioneer the "arts of the future," as well as be an active and supporting member of the San Francisco--and now Los Angeles--performance production scene. Created by Producing Artistic Director Matthew Quinn, and joined by Steve Kahn in 1999, C.A.F.E. has collaborated with actors, singers, filmmakers, sketch comedy groups, musicians, improvisers and fine artists in more than 100 shows, including Santaland Diaries, Eavesdropper (SF), Monday Night Improv Jam (SF), Thursday Night Improv Jam (LA), PAPA (at the Eureka with Open Fist), Tilted Frame Improv and the SF Solo Festival.