[NEohioPAL] In-Depth Improv Workshop with Philadelphia's Rare Bird Show

[Andrew Jorgensen]

In-Depth Improv Workshop with Philadelphia's Rare Bird Show

Sunday, April 18
12-3 p.m.
Visible Voice Books, 1023 Kenilworth, Tremont
$30

Rare
Bird Show, Philadelphia's top improv troupe, comes to Cleveland Sunday,
April 18th to teach a workshop in longform improvisation. All three
members, Matt Holmes, Alexis Simpson and Nathan Edmondson, will be
teaching. They'll be here from noon until three p.m. at Visible Voice,
1023 Kenilworth in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland. You can take
part in this special opportunity for only thirty dollars!

Since
its start in the summer of 2003, Rare Bird Show has performed all over
Philadelphia, including the annual Philly Fringe Festival. Rare Bird
Show has traveled to improv theaters in Delaware, Baltimore,
Washington, DC, and in New York City at the Peoples Improv Theater
(PIT), Brooklyn Lyceum, and Magnet Theater. They've also headlined top
improv festivals around the country, including the Philadelphia Improv
Festival, Baltimore Improv Festival, North Carolina Comedy Arts
Festival, Toronto International Improv Festival, Chicago Improv
Festival at Second City, and the Del Close Marathon at the Upright
Citizens Brigade Theatre. 

The members of Rare Bird Show have
studied improv with Matt Walsh from the Upright Citizens Brigade; Keith
Johnstone, author of Impro and creator of Theatersports; the musical
improv groups Baby Wants Candy and I Eat Pandas; Joe Bill and Mark
Sutton from Bassprov; Kevin McDonald from the Kids in the Hall; and
improvisors from Second City, UCBT, Annoyance Theater, Impatient
Theatre, DSI, Improv Everywhere, Theatersports, ComedySportz, and iO.

They're real good.

"They
are really one of the best things going in Philly improv and have been
for a long time. They create fast-paced, smart, dark comedy with
characters that are extreme, strange, and vulnerable - almost raw. It's
fresh, newly hatched, but not like a chickadee. It's like a baby
vulture. They are hilarious and part of what makes them so is their
fearless support of one another on stage and their willingness to
unflinchingly explore everything that is messed up about this world."

To watch videos of Rare Bird Show on stage, visit http://www.rarebirdshow.com/

To sign up for the workshop, or for more information, contact Andrew Jorgensen at andrew.jorgensen at yahoo.com



      
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