Drinks, shedding a tear and waiting on tenterhooks for Bilyard’s pics While a sleep and a shower might be the first port of call, actors directors and musicians say there is more to recovering from an improvathon than catching up on sleep. Many mark the occasion at the post improvathon…
Improvisers dish on how they survive what is traditionally considered the most punishing part of an improvathon. Having done over 25 improvathons, Mark Meer misses the visions and the madness that occur on his second night when the body and mind truly frays under the weight of sleep deprivation. He…
IMPROVATHONS: FAIL TO PREPARE, PREPARE FOR SUCCESS Ruth Bratt’s improvathon preparation over the past 15 years has begun by helping put together the event. Many actors who play leading roles in the show also lend a hand. Bratt has, in the past, cooked meals. However, she doesn’t reccomend it. “Cooking…
Where did these improvathons start, and why? The first improvathon began as a one-off charity event to save a theatre from becoming a restaurant. What would become the Varscona Theatre in Edmonton Canada had been jointly run by the Chinook Children’s Theatre and the Edmonton International Fringe Festival until 1993.…