Das »National Theatre of the World" ist eine vielseitige Theatergruppe aus Toronto, die aufregende, provokante und erstaunliche Theaterformate auf Improvisationsbasis entwickeln.
Das N.T.O.W zeigt an diesem Abend ihr Format Impromptu Splendor: Sie lassen sich von zwei sehr unterschiedlichen Künstlern inspirieren. Die eine Hälfte der Show wird dabei im Stile des russischen Dramatikers Tschechow improvisiert, die andere Hälfte widmet sich Woody Allen.
Spontane Erzählkunst der drei Improgrößen aus Toronto, die für ihre großartigen Improvisationen bereits mehrfach mit dem kanadischen Comedy Award ausgezeichnet wurden.
mit: Ron Pederson, Naomi Snieckus und Matt Baram
The National Theatre of the World is a multi-disciplinary, Toronto-based, not-for-profit theatre company that creates exciting, provocative, and instantaneous theatre through the art of improvisation. N.T.O.W. was founded in 2008, by Co-Artistic Directors Matt Baram, Ron Pederson and Naomi Snieckus with the mandate of creating new Canadian work and to encourage the theatre and improvisation communities to come together. Through the production of four different shows,
Impromptu Splendor (The Live Improvised Play),
The Carnegie Hall Show (The Improvised Retrospective),
The Soaps! (The Live Improvised Soap Opera), and
The Script Tease Project, the company continues to bridge the gap between theatre and improvisation to this day by creating vivid, dramatic and complex full-length plays, radio dramas and inter-disciplinary variety shows.
Imromptu Splendor Once established in September of 2008,
N.T.O.W. began to produce
Impromptu Splendor at Comedy Bar in Toronto. From it?s earliest incarnation,
Impromptu Splendor has always delivered a fresh, artful and provoking spectacle brought to life in the fashion of an improvised play. The focus is on its cunning actors and their mastery of narrative and style.
After a highly acclaimed run at The Summerworks Theatre Festival,
Impromptu Splendor found a permanent home in March of 2009 when the company was invited by Artistic Director, Andy McKim to produce its monthly show at the legendary
Theatre Passe Muraille. The company?s first show was improvised in the style of Tennessee Williams with special guest Fiona Reid. Soon after,
Impromptu Splendor took to the road after being invited to the Chicago Improv Festival where they performed with special guest Joe Flaherty (of
SCTV fame).
The company has since performed at the Los Angeles Improv Festival, the Edmonton International Improv Festival, The International Improvisation Theatre Festival in Amsterdam, The SummerWorks Theatre Festival in Toronto, The Toronto Fringe Theatre Festival and the Supernova Festival in Halifax. Theatre Aquarius in Hamilton, The Grand Theatre in London, Ontario, and WJT in Winnipeg have invited
Impromptu Splendor to perform as a part of their studio seasons.
The company has garnered several awards including A
Canadian Comedy Award for Best Improv Troupe in 2009, 2010 and 2011. Naomi Snieckus won the Best Female Improviser Award in 2010 and Ronald Pederson won for Best Male Improviser in 2011. Upcoming in 2012 the company will produce a run at New York?s Barrow Street Theatre, teach workshops in Amsterdam and London and participate in a prestigious theatre festival in Berlin.
