Event

The Raving Jaynes / The Grrr

The Raving Jaynes is a highly physical improv group that creates spontaneous theater for intimate spaces. Movement, text and sound are woven, smashed and twisted together to transform what waits in the empty space into sweaty stories. The performers interact with the audience and the space itself to discover the impulses unique to the moment and create a piece of "one-time-only" dance/theater.

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The Grrr, formed in March 2011, as part of Chicago's Playground Theatre Incubator program has crossed many rivers and streams to bring their brand of ALL HANDS ON DECK comedy to you, the humans. From a suggestion gleaned from a vocal audience member, The Grrr, improvises a full show, stacked with realistic source scenes, allowing for the bizarre to weave in. Starting the show with what we call our "Angry Opening," intense word flames dig deep into our suggestion, effortlessly causing a laser focused piece. The team creates wonky characters, with even stranger names, from Rubicorn the child with the weird invisible friend, to the ever-present "Martha" character, who just can't seem to get her glasses on her face. Throwing around phrases like "whirlwind" and "high-energy," you know this is an improv show.