Tag Archive for the term: improv

I am delighted to be able to announce that the beloved performers, improvisers, and award winning script writers who call themselves Uncalled For will be hosting our Indyish MonthlyMess this weekend in Griffintown. Sept 13. Yay! I just found out, figured I’d share asap, so after this quick blog I’ll update the Event page. From [...]

On top of a month-long itinerary of amazing shows, Suoni Per Il Popolo is collaborating with The Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium at the University of Guelph and McGill University in Montreal to put together this weekend’s Improvisation Colloquium. I really really wish I could go, but I’m working both days. If you’ve got any free [...]

This time chatting with Mark of Without Annette improv who have a show in this year’s Montreal Fringe called Argument with a Dolphin. Check out the Indyish review of Argument With a Dolphin!

Haiku Review:
yes yes yes yes yes
yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
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Uncalled for, oh won’t you move into my house and perform for me at my beck and call? You can sleep in the corner. It’s kinda comfy.
The follow-up to last year’s sensation THUNDERSPANK! a personal favorite of this reviewer, Blastback [...]

review haiku:
improvised silly
this train to cincinnati
happily goes nowhere
Amid some truly inspired moments, such as the titular “Argument with a Dolphin,” this train ride to Cincinnati (yours will invariably be a different trip) kept the chuckles coming fairly regularly. Watching improv is hit or miss, but Without Annette cleverly gets the audience to choose their fate, [...]

I attended the Best of Montreal Night for the third annual Sketch Comedy Festival at Theatre Ste. Catherine. To sum up the whole night I can say I was pleasantly and vaguely entertained the whole evening. Nothing was fall down funny….or laugh out loud funny but I had a nice warm feeling of amusement for [...]

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Tha’s Deir Logo!

These are the facts:
1 - St. Patrick’s Day commemorates the patron saint of Ireland, Booze.
2 - Uncalled For celebrates the patron saint of comedy, Questionable Decision Making.
3 - Nothing improves Questionable Decision Making like a hefty helping of [...]

If Uncalled For had sat down to write, block, and rehearse their performance, and produced with the skits we saw that night, I probably would have thought it sucked. But, because everything was concocted on the spot, it was completely awe-inspiring. So does that mean can only enjoy improv if we lower our comic standards?

Sometimes my main job with Indyish is to trim the maybes, and sometimes it’s to pursue them. Sometimes it’s hard to know when to do which. Over the past week I’ve met with a potential investor and a television producer, and handed in the last bit of a Phd application that would see me doing [...]

Crucial to open systems, or at least to open source software development, is the right to fork. This right is embedded in the culture and licenses of the open source code community: because the systems are always visible and legally available, anyone can take the whole code off in a new direction and use what [...]