The four woman of WYMPROV! bring their own brand of comedy improvisation to the stage. Getting all of their suggestions from the audience, no two WYMPROV! performances are ever the same. Using the audience suggestions in various games, set ups and skits, a WYMPROV! performance is uniquely suited to the audience at hand.
So what Exactly Do you Do?
Well, for example there is an old improv favorite, "Freeze Tag." Two actors get a suggestion from the audience and start a scene. When they are in a strange and possibly compromising position a third actor yells, "Freeze!" Then the fourth actor taps on of the frozen actors on the shoulder, takes their exact strange position, and in the same position, starts a completely different scene.
What Else Do You Do?
There are many other games where the scene is changes at the drop of a hat. Sometimes emotion circles are set up on the floor and the actors change the scene as they walk from one to another, or adverbs are yelled out by the audience, or movie genres. An unseen voice may be interacting with an actor on stage, or simply offstage music may change a scene. Other games involve getting an unknowing actor to guess her party guests extremely odd quirks (received from the audience of course) or endowing someone with a murder weapon, their occupation and the room of the murder and getting them to kill you, all while speaking in gibberish. Hitchhikers take a ride and endow the rest of the riders with odd mannerisms, weird characters are on a talk show with only the audience knowing their occupation. Slide shows appear with human slides, a machine is assembled with props from the audience.
Sometimes an audience member’s life story is told as a horror story, Shakespearean play, western and a Doctor Suess book, all at once. Word games are a favorite, as a poetry contest is manufactured from an audience suggestion, or the WYMPROV! dictionary defines amazing unknown words. A guest speaks only in gibberish as another actor translates on the spot, or Dr. IC All may appear to answer any questions from the audience (two actors take turns speaking only one word at a time.) Scenes are created with lines on paper from the audience, or a WYMPROV! favorite, "Gibberish Opera Fairytale!" The possibilities are endless as WYMPROV! has performed over fifty different games and set-ups in front of a live audience, always starting with the audience suggestions. The only common denominator is that they are all made up on the spot!
What Makes Us Think We Can Do It?
Improvisation actually takes a lot of practice, but as strange as that sounds WYMPROV! has been together long enough to find the key to laughter is in working together as a team, trust, support and saying yes! Throwing yourself on the mercy of an audience makes for a wild and crazy ride, but the audience only has to hang on for a night of fun and laughter.
