After 25 years of providing Chicago with groundbreaking, star-making, world class improvisational comedy, the legendary iO Theater is hitting the road with the Improvised Shakespeare Company and coming to Idaho Falls.
Watch in utter amazement as the gifted cast of improvisers creates a two-act play using the style, language and themes of the immortal Bard, William Shakespeare. Coming up, one night only on Friday, January 15, 8 p.m. at the Colonial Theater (450 A Street) in downtown Idaho Falls. Tickets are $28 and available by calling 522-0471.
Based on one audience suggestion (a title for a play that has yet to be written) The Improvised Shakespeare Co. creates a fully improvised play in Elizabethan style. Each of the players has mastered his "thee's" and "thou's" to bring you an evening of off-the-cuff comedy. Any show could be filled with power struggles, star-crossed lovers, sprites, kings, queens, princesses, sword-play, rhyming couplets, asides, insults, persons in disguise and all that we've come to expect from the pen of the Great Bard. The night could reveal a tragedy, comedy, or history. Nothing is planned-out. Each play is completely improvised, so each play is entirely new!
iO Theater is the birthplace of long-form improvisation from Improvised Shakespeare to scripted musicals. Their alumni include Mike Myers, Tina Fey, Chris Farley, Vince Vaughn, Amy Poehler, Neil Flynn, Adam McKay, Rachel Dratch and many more.
Tickets are $28 and available by calling the Idaho Falls Arts Council box office at 208-522-0471 Monday through Friday 11 am-5 pm, and Saturdays 10-4.
Sponsored by Idaho Commission on the Arts/National Endowment for the Arts,
John & Kerry Martin and Sunny 94.3.
