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Ep 12: Randy Dixon – ‘Mythology and Kinship’: Improvention 2011

usa-flagRandy Dixon,  veteren Seattle improviser and Unexpected Productions Artistic Director,  speaks about the influence of Del Close, his life and times as a young improviser, and the impact of mythology in the work he creates.


TFPC Ep 12 – Randy Dixon: Improvention 2011

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From Street Theatre A, Improvention 2011, Australia, the last of the ‘fireside chat’ series. A live recording of Randy Dixon speaking with good friend Rama Nicholas about his growth as a young improviser into the world travelling teacher and player he is today. His unique trake on the  Keith V Del debate, facing death with Del Close and what art can draw from such things, and his hopes for the roads yet to be walked..

Run time 56 mins

LINKS

Unexpected Productions

Randy on Applied Improv Network

The Joseph Campbell Foundation

Improvention

LD JP 1

LD JP 2

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Ep 11: Vox Pops from The Fest – Improvention 2011

Prowling the rooms and halls in the wee hours of Improvention 2011, The Flint Podcast brings you a series of one on one conversations with the teachers, performers, administrators and students of this week long impro fest.

TFPC Ep 11 – Vox Pops from Improvention 2011

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Marcel Proust  on travel wrote, “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

Thanks Google.

Festivals operate in such rarefied air.

A year’s work can fly by as if but a foot-note, epiphanies can slow time for a blessed moment, and connections can be forged, broken, and connected again.

And that’s just on stage.

A collection of interviews from Improvention 2011 participants

Featuring Rik Brown, Mim Carville, Amy Moule, Mel Bennet, Jen O’Sullivan, Jaime Cerda, Cale Bain,  Merrilee McCoy, Catherine Hagarty, Glenn Hall, Ben Crowley, Michelle Nussey and the first ever censor beep from the drive by specialist, Ep 7′s Jason Geary.

LINKS

The Spaces. Feature band’s fab website.

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Ep 8: The Displaced – Impro A.C.T: An interview in three acts

What happens when you take a largely comedic form and apply it to potentially dark political material? This is exactly what Impro A.C.T attempted with their two-act fully improvised drama, The Displaced. Here, over three interviews, from rehearsals’ start to show’s end, artistic director Nick Byrne lets us in on the journey of this troupe as they dig for the truth in the material, and from themselves.

TFPC Ep 8 The Displaced

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Truth is a loaded word. From the macro of philosophical musings to the micro of impro and theatrical application. Do improvisers treat truth as some sort of glum genre or is it the launching pad for work that tickles the magic edges of imagination? And what of a show that explores a loaded political theme, refugees, and has bad news built into its title?

How do you remain in the moment and not plod  inexorably towards displacement? Is there place for comedy? Do the politics break the impro or perhaps, do such integral human themes  it free…..

The Displaced. An interview in three acts.

LINKS

Impro A.C.T’s site.

Improvention.

Feature band The Spaces.

Video Trailer for The Displaced.

Cast List for Displaced
Catherine Hagarty
Matthew Sheppard
Sophie Hope
Benjamin Crowley
Kathy Bakewell
PJ Williams
Lynn Petersen
Brad Hoff
Reid Workman
Nick Byrne
group-devised format
co-directed by Barb Barnett & Nick Byrne
lighting design by PJ Williams -  lighting operator Owen Horton
sound by Dave Woodgate
Artwork by Reid Workman
Note: Five interviews in total were conducted with Nick Byrne. The audio here is from three of those interviews.