Tennessee Williams UnScripted at Falcon Theatre

Tennessee Williams UnScripted

Falcon Theatre
4252 Riverside Drive Burbank

Passionate, smoldering secrets lurk beneath the surface of genteel society - and explode in a comical climax of accusation, confession and calamity. Inspired by American master playwright Tennessee Williams' rollicking storytelling and delicious language, Impro Theatre starts with a single audience suggestion and builds improvised, full-length plays that are hilarious, yet tender as a Southern belle's broken heart. Williams' best known plays include A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and The Glass Menagerie.

Thru - Jul 31, 2016

Fridays: 8:00pm

Saturdays: 4:00pm & 8:00pm

Sundays: 4:00pm

Price: $31.50-$44

Show Type: Comedy/Drama

Box Office: 818-955-8101

www.falcontheatre.com

Tennessee Williams UnScripted Reviews

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Los Angeles Times - Highly Recommended

"...Michael C. Smith's scenic design evokes a subtropical ambience for the steamy goings-on, Sandra Burns' proper 1950s costumes are a subtle counterpoint to the onstage degeneracy, while Leigh Allen's versatile lighting nicely accommodates the unanticipated. Offstage "technical improvisers," Madison Goff and Alex Caan, contribute spot-on sound effects and music that are central to this fun and rigorously executed entertainment."

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- F. Kathleen Foley

Broadway World - Highly Recommended

"...Audience really enjoyed the jokes about the terrain. Somehow the characters found themselves on a mountain in Florida, referring to it as a vertical swamp ... and getting more and more comedy from it than perhaps was necessary. Whatever, the evening was pure fun and the style of Tennessee Williams did manage to poke through every now and again. I particularly liked the deep ruminations at the end about how a change in vista must come between two people before they can fully understand one another."

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- Don Grigware

Edge - Recommended

"...Impro Theatre has found an amazing place for themselves in today's crowded theatre field, doing entire evening improvisations around a single theme. In this case, the work of Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), known for his Southern Gothic, subliminal sexuality made powerful on stage and screen, and his gay wit. They call it "Tennessee Williams UnScripted"."

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- Dale Reynolds

Stage Scene LA - Highly Recommended

"...Things get as hot and steamy as an Everglades swamp (and as hilarious as only the improv geniuses of Impro Theatre can make them) in Tennessee Williams UnScripted, the troupe's fourth visit to Garry Marshall's Falcon Theatre."

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- Steven Stanley

ReviewPlays.com - Highly Recommended

"...The Impro Theatre Company is one of the finest improvisational groups you will ever see. By taking a subject from the audience, this extremely talented company improvises a complete two-act play in the manner of a specific playwright. In their latest showcase at the Falcon Theatre in Burbank, you can see them in Tennessee Williams UnScripted."

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- Carol Kaufman Segal

On Stage Los Angeles - Highly Recommended

"...There's improv and then, there's Impro! With all respect to Merrie Masquers, The Committee, The Wing, The Groundlings, Whose Line is it Anyway and The Spolin Players, Impro takes the craft of improvisation to new heights. However.. Howevah.. there might be a slight problem as the tale of vacationers on a mountain top in Florida evolves (do not expect to be taken to Florida or up on a mountain top when you go).. in that the laughter as the story takes shape is raucous. As intimations of Blanche DuBois and Big Daddy evolve with other characters whom you may remember from Williams' familiar plays, twists and turns in the hands of these professionals just keep twisting and turning."

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- Michael Sheehan

NoHoArtsDistrict - Highly Recommended

"...If you have never seen the Impro Theatre companys productions, you are in for a treat, and the Falcon Theatre is the place to be. Each evening is "one time only" entertainment, and is sparked on by suggestions from that nights audience. In this case, we are treated to a play in the style of Tennessee Williams, slow southern drawls, hot summer nights, sexual turmoil, family tensions, bourbon and rum cocktails. Doesn't that sound like fun? Well it was!"

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- Cathy Wayne

Stage Raw - Recommended

"...Accomplishing this feat every time, while adhering to the spirit and tone of the genre they are emulating, is the clever part. Bringing down the house over and over again is the gloriously impossibly funny part."

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- Lyle Zimskind

Accessibly Live Off-Line - Highly Recommended

"...The Falcon Theatre continues its summer season run with Theatre Impro's TENNESSEE WILLIAMS UNSCRIPTED, an improvised rendition of a piece that could have been created by Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III, but was actually made up on the spot!"

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- Rich Borowy