Jet City Improv's TRESPASS Takes Over Seattle Public Theater

Jet City Improv is launching a brand new collaboration-based performance series by partnering with theaters across Seattle to create TRESPASS: an unscripted play inspired by - and performed on - the set of another play. The first trespassing will be on the set of "On Clover Road" at Seattle Public Theater on Sunday, Oct 2 at 6pm.

TRESPASS combines the best improvisers from across the improv community with the incredible design work of productions currently in performance to create a new, full-length play indistinguishable from any other piece of great new theater but without a script. Pulling inspiration from the set around them and the light plot above them (as well as a few audience suggestions), actors serve as co-writers and co-directors while sound and light cues are executed on the fly to create a rich and detailed, one-night-only world premiere.

"When most people think about improv, they think of an episode of Who's Line Is it Anyway? or a group from college doing improv games," says director NiCK Edwards. "But great improv can be anything. In this case we'll make it look and feel like a full-length scripted play. Our goal is to make it seem like two completely independent plays just happened to have the same set and light design but are otherwise unrelated."

The ensemble for the first performance of TRESPASS features improvisers from across Seattle's improv community: Chris Allen, Molly Arkin, Jon Axell, Kate Jaeger, Mandy Price, Elicia Wickstead, Douglas Willott, and improvised tech by Anthony van Winkle.

Tickets to the event are $10 and can be purchased at seattlepublictheater.org or at the Seattle Public Theater box office on the night of the show.

"On Clover Road" performs at Seattle Public Theater until October 16, with tickets and information available at seattlepublictheater.org.

ABOUT JET CITY IMPROV

Jet City Improv is dedicated to enlightening, educating, and entertaining audiences through the art of improvisation. Over the course of any given month, shows include new unscripted plays in the Jet City Improv Presents series, an original comedy series known as JCI Late Night, the flagship Jet City Improv show, and the popular re-dubbed film events known as Twisted Flicks. Jet City Improv also works to fulfill its mission with a 40-week improv training curriculum known as the Jet City Improv Academy as well as outreach work that provides free performances and workshops to homeless and incarcerated youth in Seattle and physically ill children around the state of Washington. All Jet City Improv productions, classes and outreach programs operate out of a bright yellow theater in Seattle's University District and are produced by Wing-It Productions, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.