This weekly show brings some of Greenville’s best long-form improvisors together with a classic format called the Harold. Starting with a suggestion from the audience, our performers will create a 20 to 30 minute theatrical show on the spot. Sometimes it’ll feel like a play and othertimes like a dream: the scenes build, push, crash, and fold into each other… themes, characters, patterns, and ideas all might appear and reappear… the original suggestion might come back into focus in surpising ways. But you never know—and neither do we!
This week, Epic will open up the show and 601 Mid-class Showcase will close out the night.
Epic is coached by Jeremiah Jones and features Jacki Flynn, Emily Kelly, Walter Ezell, Mona Lisa Harrison, Melissa Wright, Katie Steenerson, and Will Hixon.
Our Improv 601 conservatory students will do their first show together. In this class they are working on the simplest, yet most difficult of improv formats, the duo monoscene. Each student will be paired with another and they will do a 20 minute scene togehter. No lights. No edits. Just two characters.
Come see them take on improv highest wire!
The Harold is not only the show that got long-form started, it’s also the foundation of the classes we offer in our training center! The Harold was developed by Del Close and Charna Halpern in the 1960’s at the iO Theater in Chicago and is now performed in improv comedy theaters from LA to NYC and everywhere in between. Famous comedians like Chris Farley, Mike Meyers, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and many others started their career with Harold-based improvisation and continue to use the style today.
