This is improv comedy at its BEST!
The Fredericton Playhouse is thrilled to present the hilarious improvisational talents of The Improvised Shakespeare Company on February 16 at 7:30pm. Some people might think twice about perusing a Shakespeare play, much less improvising one. But the merry band of Improvised Shakespeare Co. players take to the stage with relish in the course of a show that has been described as “no-holds Bard.” Pun intended. According to The Chicago Tribune, “…the show channels Monty Python as often as the Bard, and frequently with sly-witted results.”
Based on one audience suggestion (a title for a play that has yet to be written) The Improvised Shakespeare Co. creates a fully improvised play in Elizabethan style. Each of the players has brushed up on his “thees” and “thous” to bring you an evening of off-the-cuff comedy using the language and themes of William Shakespeare. Any performance could be filled with power struggles, star-crossed lovers, sprites, kings, queens, princesses, sword-play, rhyming couplets, asides, insults, persons in disguise and all that we’ve come to expect from the pen of the Great Bard. The night could reveal a tragedy, comedy, or history. Nothing is planned-out, rehearsed, or written. Each play is completely improvised, so each play is entirely new!
Tickets for The Improvised Shakespeare Co. are available at the Fredericton Playhouse box office in person, by phone at 1-866-884-5800, or online at www.theplayhouse.ca .
Want a sample? Check out this clip from their appearance at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal:
| Improvised Shakespeare: Rubber Crazy |
