The Strand Presents January Blahs Improv Show 1/23

January Blahs Improv Show Saturday, January 23, 2010 | 8:00pm
Guest performer KAREN WIGHT!
Bleh, it's the middle of January and you might need cheering up. Let BIG Improv do the job with a fun show at the Strand Theater! BIG troupes Population: Six, Moving Walkways and Lekker take the stage - and the BIG NEWS is our amazing special guest performer at this show: Karen Wight, doing her hysterical wordless improv show!
Karen Eleanor Wight is a NYC-based actress/dancer and is one-half of the improv duo "imp." Want to see a hilarious example of Karen's work in imp? Check out this YouTube clip.

Karen Wight has been seen at various comedy festivals including CIF, Melbourne's Int'l Comedy Festival, the TV2 Laugh Fest in New Zealand, the Toronto Jamboree, and the Seattle Festival, as well as at the Oberlin Improv Conference. Karen has studied clowning with Christopher Bayes (of Julliard, Kennedy Center, and NYU) and corporel mime with Christopher Eaves (student of Marcel Marceau). As a dancer she has extensive experience in jazz, musical theatre, and modern dance and has begun dabbling in Argentinian Tango. In 2007 and 2008, Karen performed in the two-person Off-Broadway play The Screwtape Letters which is adapted from C.S. Lewis' book by the same name. Her role, Toadpipe, is a wordless demon creature which she created during the rehearsal process. The Screwtape Letters is currently on tour in the U.S.

The Strand Theater is at 1823 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, just north of the Charles Theater and Everyman Theater. BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW! CLICK HERE! - $10, $8 students & military.

Auditions for The Mai by Marina Carr

The Strand Theater is holding auditions for The Mai by Marina Carr Sunday, January 24th, 2010 at 5pm. Auditions will be performed on a first come, first served basis. Directed by Jayme Kilburn.The Mai runs April 15-May 9, 2010. Rehearsals will be held weeknights (7-10pm) with weekends as needed

If you would like to audition, but are unable to attend on Sunday, please email Jayme directly for an opportunity to reschedule. Please call the Strand (443) 874-4917 if you have any questions, or email Jayme Kilburn, Artistic Director

Please prepare a 1-2 minute monologue. You may be asked to cold read.
Characters: 7 Women, 1 Man
The Mai, Millie, Grandma, Beck, Connie, Julie, Agnes, Robert
Characters range in age from 20's-70's.
For more information of the play, please visit: Google Books

About The Mai by Marina Carr:
An accomplished, beautiful forty-year-old woman, The Mai has always sought an exceptional life. Robert, her cellist husband, has always felt stifled by The Mai's ideals of perfection. After seventeen years he leaves her, whereupon she sets about building a dream house in the hope that he will one day return to her. From her fairytale castle, The Mai waits by the window for her dark-haired prince to return. Set in the inspiring surrounds of the West of Ireland, on the banks of the legendary Owl Lake, we enter this world on the day of Robert's return after an absence of four years. In the midst of Mai's and Robert's troubled reunion are the idiosyncratic characters that comprise the family. Irreverent and unapologetic, the opium-smoking one-hundred-year-old matriarch, Grandma Fraochlan, presides over all. The "Spanish Beauty," as she is known, with her "ancient and fantastical memory" and mythical presence, reminds us that the past is looming ever present.

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