PORT TOWNSEND — The Chairs, Port Townsend’s teenage improvisational theater troupe, are celebrating Keep America Beautiful Month with “Road Trip Improv,” a new show at the BLT Coffeehouse tonight.
Admission will be by donation.
Starting at 7 p.m., The Chairs will visit America’s national parks — Yellowstone, the Statue of Liberty, for example — on a bus made of improv and comedy.
“Anything is possible, and will probably happen in Road Trip Improv,” promised director Joey Pipia.
The show will run just under and hour, he added, and what happens will depend on what audience members suggest.
The Chairs — Misha Cassella-Blackburn, Solomon Dusseljee and Katherine Atkins, all 17 — create their original shows from the ground up, Pipia added.
Guests will “travel the country without ever leaving BLT.”
This is the first time in more than a year that The Chairs have done a show at the BLT coffeehouse, aka Better Living Through Coffee, at 100 Tyler St.
The last time was standing-room only, said BLT co-owner Michael Ledonna.
“The BLT Coffeehouse will make a few subtle changes to accommodate the show, but mostly it will be transformed by the actors, the audience and improv,” Pipia added.
The Chairs will present improv structures that fans will recognize, but each will be bent to the need of the evening’s overall theme of travel.
“For example, when writing to friends and family back home, the classic Word At A Time game will be used to write letters, emails and text messages,” Pipia noted.
“The audience will decide to whom the missives are being sent. They’ll also give the emotional context.”
And, he warned, “you’ll get to see what happens when you do send that angry email.”
For more details about tonight’s Road Trip Improv show, phone 360-379-1068 or email joey@olympus.net.
