Fort Lauderdale, FL – You'll never be bored by the Bard on a comic ride back in time to the Elizabethan era with Improvised Shakespeare! on Friday, February 10, 2012 at 10 a.m. as part of the Smart Stage Matinee Series and Saturday, February 1, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. as part of the Broward Series 2011-2012 Off Broadway Series in the Amaturo Theater at the Broward Center for the Arts.
Using audience suggestion, the Improvised Shakespeare Co. creates a fully improvised play in Elizabethan style which might 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.
Based in Chicago, Ill., home of the famed Second City improvisation troupe, the Improvised Shakespeare Co. has been named Chicago's “Best Improv “Group” by both the Chicago Reader and the Chicago Examiner and was honored by the Chicago Improv Foundation as its "Ensemble of the Year." In addition to its acclaimed engagement in New York City, the troupe has also been featured at the Piccolo Spoleto Fringe Festival, the Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival and the prestigious Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal.
The public is also invited to get into the act at a free workshop with the Improvised Shakespeare Company on Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 5 p.m. in the Abdo New River Room. Participants will learn the basic rules of Elizabethan dialogue and then create their own contemporary scenes. For example, a teenager replying he cannot go see the latest movie with a friend until he finishes his homework becomes "I am bound as a prisoner is. My father and mother have forbid me such pleasures ‘til I complete the Herculean tasks that the academy has set before me." For more information or to register for the workshop call (954) 468-2689.
Smart Stage Matinees are affordably-priced professional school-day performances "where learning comes to life onstage" for all students in grades Pre-K through 12. Each performance covers themes which reinforce classroom learning and directly connect with core curriculum through literature-based shows, science and math-related productions, dramatizations of historical events, and immersion into the music, dance and traditions of different cultures. The series is also presented at the Parker Playhouse, Aventura Arts & Cultural Center and the Miramar Cultural Center|ArtsPark.
Tickets for Friday’s Smart Stage Matinee are $6 for individual seats, $5.50 for groups of 10 or more and $3 lap seats for infants 12 months and under. Tickets for Saturday’s evening performance are $25 and $35. All tickets are available through the Broward Center’s AutoNation Box Office at 954-462-0222 or www.BrowardCenter.org. The Broward Center for the Performing Arts is located in the Riverwalk Arts & Entertainment District at 201 SW Fifth Avenue in Fort Lauderdale.
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