Storybox with Special Guest Instructor Jonathan Pitts Thursdays, 6:30 to 8:30PM
$225
April 28th to June 2nd
Using only wooden sticks, colored pieces of cloth, and a single audience suggestion, this highly talented ensemble of theatre artists creates an original story that is performed only once for each audience. Utilizing movement, scene-work, and transformations to develop the arc of the story, they develop characters, motifs, and themes into a performance featuring evocative improvised environments, imagery, music, ritual, sub-stories, and stage tableaus that bring the audience along on the main character’s epic and personal journey.
Storybox is a wonderfully imaginative two-act fully improvised theatre production inspired by Second City Co-Founder Paul Sills’ Tony award-winning Broadway show Story Theater, Keith Johnstone’s improvisational narrative techniques, as well as the poetry and ritual of Japan’s Noh Theatre to create a single story improvised from multiple narrations and sub-stories. Other influences on Storybox’s creation are the transformational theatre works of Robert LaPage and the epic universal storytelling of mythology from Joseph Campbell.
