2008 Woodie Awards
Rollins Improv Players Perfom at the Fred
Claire Kunzman
Issue date: 4/22/05 Section: Arts & Entertainment
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Attention Who's Line Is It Anyway? fans! Why watch Drew Carey or our Orlando native Wayne Brady have all the fun on TV when you can experience improvisation up-close and personal right here at Rollins College?
The Rollins Improv Players, R.I.P, has been performing both shortform improvisation-as seen on Who's Line?-as well as longform improv throughout the year. Most recently, R.I.P. dedicated a performance of their original longform, "Variations on a Theme," to President Lewis Duncan, who was a special guest in the audience.
"Variations on a Theme," a longform created specifically for R.I.P., consists of a collection of monologues, vignettes, and scenes that explore, challenge, and complicate a given theme or themes garnered from the audience. Rather than pursuing conformity, consensus, or conclusiveness, "Variations" seeks to illuminate the human experience by examining multiple contrasting perspectives and personal truths. Drawing from the stories of our audience, our own lived pasts, and our collective hopes for the future, "Variations" provides a performance space for discussion and discovery that invites those present to consider their own views, experiences, and assumptions.
Clearly, R.I.P has dedicated their organization not only to entertaining audiences but also to serving the community by acting a conduit for discussion, discovery, and experimentation. Their collective mission includes creating improvisational theatre that expresses challenging and provocative subject matter, as seen in their prior performance at leadership week. Due to the week's focus on leadership, the group's artistic director and creator, Dr. David Charles of the theater department, solicited suggestions from audience members in regards to their thoughts on leadership. From these offers, R.I.P. immediately crafted a longform improvisation centering on the suggested ideas and emotions.
Rollins Improv Players hopes to continue to serve its community through more performances throughout this semester and the following years to come. The founding members-Kelly Crooks, Michael Dalto, Eli Green, Yvette Kojic, Claire Kunzman, Celia Merendi, Stacy Norwood, Zeldagrey Riley, and John Ryan, hope to continue to represent the dramatic and comedic aspects of student life for more audiences in order to further raise awareness on important topics and to simultaneously stir debate and discussion both on-campus and off.
R.I.P. invites the entire community to attend their upcoming performance of shortform improv, "R.I.P Tag." This form involves a series of improvisational games in which two teams of improvisers compete for the audience's laughter and applause. "R.I.P Tag" will be presented at the Fred Stone Theater on Thursday, April 28th and will commence immediately following Fool for Love at approximately 10:30 p.m.
Students who are interested in joining Rollins Improv Players are welcome to audition at the Fred Stone Theater on Monday, May 2 from 6 to10 p.m. R.I.P. meets Fridays from noon to 2 p.m., and as a member of R.I.P, the student becomes eligible to receive two hours of academic credit!
The Rollins Improv Players, R.I.P, has been performing both shortform improvisation-as seen on Who's Line?-as well as longform improv throughout the year. Most recently, R.I.P. dedicated a performance of their original longform, "Variations on a Theme," to President Lewis Duncan, who was a special guest in the audience.
"Variations on a Theme," a longform created specifically for R.I.P., consists of a collection of monologues, vignettes, and scenes that explore, challenge, and complicate a given theme or themes garnered from the audience. Rather than pursuing conformity, consensus, or conclusiveness, "Variations" seeks to illuminate the human experience by examining multiple contrasting perspectives and personal truths. Drawing from the stories of our audience, our own lived pasts, and our collective hopes for the future, "Variations" provides a performance space for discussion and discovery that invites those present to consider their own views, experiences, and assumptions.
Clearly, R.I.P has dedicated their organization not only to entertaining audiences but also to serving the community by acting a conduit for discussion, discovery, and experimentation. Their collective mission includes creating improvisational theatre that expresses challenging and provocative subject matter, as seen in their prior performance at leadership week. Due to the week's focus on leadership, the group's artistic director and creator, Dr. David Charles of the theater department, solicited suggestions from audience members in regards to their thoughts on leadership. From these offers, R.I.P. immediately crafted a longform improvisation centering on the suggested ideas and emotions.
Rollins Improv Players hopes to continue to serve its community through more performances throughout this semester and the following years to come. The founding members-Kelly Crooks, Michael Dalto, Eli Green, Yvette Kojic, Claire Kunzman, Celia Merendi, Stacy Norwood, Zeldagrey Riley, and John Ryan, hope to continue to represent the dramatic and comedic aspects of student life for more audiences in order to further raise awareness on important topics and to simultaneously stir debate and discussion both on-campus and off.
R.I.P. invites the entire community to attend their upcoming performance of shortform improv, "R.I.P Tag." This form involves a series of improvisational games in which two teams of improvisers compete for the audience's laughter and applause. "R.I.P Tag" will be presented at the Fred Stone Theater on Thursday, April 28th and will commence immediately following Fool for Love at approximately 10:30 p.m.
Students who are interested in joining Rollins Improv Players are welcome to audition at the Fred Stone Theater on Monday, May 2 from 6 to10 p.m. R.I.P. meets Fridays from noon to 2 p.m., and as a member of R.I.P, the student becomes eligible to receive two hours of academic credit!