Sent: Thursday, May 4, 2017 12:46 PM
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday Nights (see below)
Just three more opportunities left this weekend to catch Tara
Handron's one-woman
show, “Drunk with
Hope: A One-Woman Comedy About Recovery and Recovering."
In this play,
Tara plays a woman
named Hope, as well as many other female alcoholics (some sober, some
not-so-sober) of various ages, ethnicities, and
socio-economic backgrounds. It's a work that discards clichéd depictions of
recovery and relies on stories with depth, poignancy, and humor to expose the
raw emotions and experiences so many alcoholic women face. But it's also a work that has its
origins in, yep, improvisational comedy, as Tara explains in a recent interview
with our theater:
Tara: My improv training played an essential part in my play’s creation and development. Ann Libera, a longtime member and instructor at Second City, said to us on the first day, “This work will change you.” And it definitely did. It changed me personally, creatively, and how I approach my performing. I would improvise by myself as I created characters. I also relied on my training for moments when I went up on a line. I had close to 20 pages of monologues to learn and memorize so improv helped me to not freak out is I missed a line. In the moment, while performing, I have discovered totally new stuff depending on the space and the audience. All those little catalysts would have been wasted had I not studied improv. Also, improv gets me out of myself which is so important for a solo performer and a person in recovery. Self-centeredness can take over very easily!
Read more of Tara's interview here. Ready to purchase tickets? Choose from the list of available performances below:
Tara: My improv training played an essential part in my play’s creation and development. Ann Libera, a longtime member and instructor at Second City, said to us on the first day, “This work will change you.” And it definitely did. It changed me personally, creatively, and how I approach my performing. I would improvise by myself as I created characters. I also relied on my training for moments when I went up on a line. I had close to 20 pages of monologues to learn and memorize so improv helped me to not freak out is I missed a line. In the moment, while performing, I have discovered totally new stuff depending on the space and the audience. All those little catalysts would have been wasted had I not studied improv. Also, improv gets me out of myself which is so important for a solo performer and a person in recovery. Self-centeredness can take over very easily!
Read more of Tara's interview here. Ready to purchase tickets? Choose from the list of available performances below:
Friday, May 5th, 8 p.m. More info here and here.
Get tickets here.
Saturday, May 6th, 8
p.m. More
info here and here.
Get tickets here.
Sunday, May 7th 7 p.m. More info here and here.
Get tickets here.
Shawn Westfall
Artistic Director
The Unified Scene Theater
shawn@unifiedscenetheater.com
Artistic Director
The Unified Scene Theater
shawn@unifiedscenetheater.com
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