LOOK: Manila Improv Fest takes stage at Peta theater | Lifestyle.INQ

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Manila' SPIT performs a random play about cheerleading, athletes and a gay guy who wants to do gymnastics.
Manila' SPIT performs a random play about cheerleading, athletes and a gay guy who wants to do gymnastics.
Manila’s SPIT performs a random play about cheerleading, athletes and a gay guy who wants to do gymnastics. MARC JAYSON CAYABYAB/INQUIRER.net

 

No script, no rehearsals—just some actors asking the audience what the story will be.

 

This is the sense the audience will get when they watch the third Manila Improv Festival which runs at the Philippine Educational Theater Association (Peta) theater center from July 8 to 12.

 

Festival director Gabe Mercado from Silly People’s Improv Theater (SPIT) Manila said this year’s festival is their most diverse yet – with improv (improvisational theater) groups from the country in Cagayan De Oro, Bacolod and Manila, and from abroad in Poland, Australia, Japan, United States, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and China participating.

 

This year’s theme is “Finding the Game”—and appropriately so, given the challenge for actors to perform on stage without the benefit of a script.

 

Improv is a non-conventional form of performance art where the audience tell the actors what to perform on stage. The challenge: the actors do not have the benefit of a rehearsal.

 

READ: Get ready for unscripted fun at Manila Improv Festival 2015

 

The performers in the line-up are: PIP Show from Warsaw, Impro Mafia from Brisbane, Pirates of Tokyo Bay from Tokyo, Landry & Summers from Los Angeles, To Be Continued, People’s Liberation Improv, 3 Dudes Improv and Lamb Ink all from Hong Kong, the Improv Company from Singapore, Taichung Improv from Taichung, the Beijing Collective from Beijing, People’s Republic of Comedy and Zmack from Shanghai, Bacolod Improv Group from Bacolod, Dulaang Atenista from Cagayan De Oro, and One and a Half Men, Switch Improv and SPIT from Manila. IDL

 

 

Taichung Improv performs a short-narrative play with the audience's participation by asking the audience to eliminate the actors they least liked.
Taichung Improv performs a short-narrative play with the audience’s participation by asking the audience to eliminate the actors they least liked. MARC JAYSON CAYABYAB/INQUIRER.net
Manila Improv Festival takes stage for its third year at Peta.
Manila Improv Festival takes stage for its third year at Peta. MARC JAYSON CAYABYAB/INQUIRER.net
Impro Mafia from Brisbane, Australia performs a grandparents skit with the theme suggested by the audience "carnival," where they say they met.
Impro Mafia from Brisbane, Australia performs a grandparents skit with the theme suggested by the audience “carnival,” where the performers say they met. MARC JAYSON CAYABYAB/INQUIRER.net
The Beijing Collective finds a way to perform the theme "Open the Gate," which they say reminds them of the torpedoes launched from the gate by the Germans, and thus they perform a skit about a German evil scientist.
The Beijing Collective finds a way to perform the theme “Open the Gate,” which they say reminds them of the torpedoes launched from the gate by the Germans, and thus they perform a skit about a German evil scientist. MARC JAYSON CAYABYAB/INQUIRER.net
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