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) Improvathon Wellington Improvisation Troupe (WIT) at Wellington Performing Arts Centre, Wellington From 12 Feb 2010 to 13 Feb 2010 [30 hrs] Reviewed by Maryanne Cathro, 13 Feb 2010 |
How the heck am I supposed to review an Improvathon? It’s thirty hours of improv in one hour shows, each with its on theme. I took in the 11pm show on the first night. It is Adults Only hour, yikes!
As a performer, improvisation terrifies me. I LIKE scripts. They are nice and safe, assuming I remember my lines which these days is a big ask. So I am already in awe of the brave souls who are willing to take it on. To go at it for hours at a time – amazing. When I get there the cellist providing incidental music had been ‘celling’ (he assures us this is the correct verb) for five hours, and clocks up a sixth before handing over.
The hour is indeed adults only, in fact so much so that there ought to be an upper age limit as well, since what a bunch of 20 and 30 somethings consider ‘adult’ can go over the head of a 40 or 50 something. There are plenty of laughs though – a man showing his lurve for a toy rabbit; a meeting of Fake Orgasmers Anonymous (in particular the member whose every line was delivered as if he was faking it!) and Jen Mason’s cougar, terrifying an incompetent burglar with her seduction technique (I just had to name Jen because on the WIT website she admits to being an ex Hutt girl and I’m into solidarity of the sisterhood, and also because she’s bloody hilarious!)
I see in the programme that the Court Jesters from Christchurch and Auckland’s Campfire Improv are joining in the fracas today (Saturday). Heaven help us all.
I do hope that you all dip your wick into this event some time before it closes at midnight. And do take some cash to buy some of the delicious Valentine’s biscuits for sale in the foyer: a fund raiser worth supporting.
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