2024 Audience Reviews

Company: The Improv Movement Project
Show: IMP presents Collidescope
Venue: HUGE Improv Theater

Required viewing for thoughtful humans

What is a "movement improv" show, exactly? To (pseudo)quote one of the great philosophers of our times, Homer (Simpson), "Well, it's not quite a dance, and it's not quite like improv, but man...!!!...hahaha... so to answer your question, I don't know." IMP's Collidescope is as delightful and entrancing as it is unconventional and form-defying. In the most reductive sense, the premise is simply improvisational theater inspired by an audience member's personal family anecdote, but without any words. And yet, that... doesn't fairly capture the experience of it. The omission of dialogue is in no way diminishing or subtractive, but rather, like Daredevil's lack of eyesight, an opportunity and an imperative to tune into the deep, nuanced, sublime, visceral, and indescribably rich language of the movement of the human body -- many bodies, in fact, of all shapes and sizes. This troupe so adeptly explores the interplay between our ancient animal bodied roots and our modern incorporeal emotional psyches that I feel confident recommending it as very nearly "required viewing" for anyone wishing to undertake a thoughtful, comprehensive, and meaningful study of the human experience. Don't miss it!

Company: Juliet & Juliet
Show: Juliet & Juliet: Improvised Shakespeare
Venue: Theatre in the Round

Just delightful

Quick witted, compelling, irreverent, hilarious, playful, charming -- this is the first show this season that I will happily pay to see a second time!