ThePIT

Dec 31st (Wed)

Mainstage

• An Existential Sing-Along

  Thursday, Sep 20, 2012 8pm
  $8
  
  Imagine Avenue Q and Santaland Diaries had a baby, and the surrogate mother was an episode of Laugh-In posted to YouTube (with comments enabled). How do you choose to define real experience? What happens to us when we die? How many jelly beans are in this jar? An Existential Sing-Along aggressively answers none of these questions, preferring to invite the audience into a world of startling and interactive transformations. A sing-along becomes therapy. Snacks become death. A magic show ends in marriage and the board game Mousetrap becomes an inescapable nightmare landscape. Sure, there’s cake, but no one leaves this birthday party without confronting their own mortality and affirming their responsibility for their own choices, either. Based on the interdisciplinary show An Existential Sing-Along, performed at the PIT, Dixon Place and the New Orleans Fringe Festival, this monthly variety show will feature collaborations with special guests, long form puppet improv, raffles, give-aways, choose-your-own-adventures and constant new material. After you leave An Existential Sing-Along your perspective and/or marital status will never be the same again.

Musicality and Scenework

June 1st-2nd, (Two-Day Workshop)

Using music to inspire scene work both internally and externally. Developing a musicality to your scenes as well as making up music / songs inside of your format. We will look at the concept of tempo and develop and understanding of how music can lead to unspoken agreement for greater joy and ease of play. We will be beatboxing, freestyling, listening, sharing, making noises you never thought you'd make and moving a lot.

Anthony Veneziale
Sat-Sun, 1pm-4pm

History Philosophy Metaphor

May 25th (One-Day Workshop)

Details, Specifics and Information are always needed for a good improv scene. This workshop teaches you HOW to create those scenic needs while creating enjoyable humor and sound theater as a side effect of generating the best details possible.

Matt Donnelly
Saturday, 12pm-3pm

Getting Out of Your Own Way

June 9th (One-Day Workshop)

here are a hundred things that you end up doing on stage instead of what you want to be doing. Your brain is clouded with all sorts of things that you think you are supposed to do instead of what you are inspired to do. Learn to throw all conventions to the wind and just have fun in your scene work. Learn how to pull from all your learning and find the school of thought that works for you, because it comes out of you.

Asaf Ronen
Sunday, 2pm-5pm

Patterns in Everything

June 21st (One-Day Workshop)

Being in your head has a terrible reputation in improv circles. This workshop is all about being in your head at the top of the scene (a good thing) and then using the information to truly play out of your head for the remainder. One exercise, one technique. Adding pattern recognition to your bag of improv tricks will help you find the comedy faster no matter the form.

Chris Trew
Friday, 2pm-5pm