Contemporary Theater Company to Present First Full-Length Improvised Farce SLAMMING DOORS

The Contemporary Theater Company can be counted on for innovative shows, and this summer will not disappoint with their first full-length improvised farce, Slamming Doors, running August 19 through September 3!

Slamming Doors will feature six of the company's most experienced improvisers making up a completely new play every night. This show marks a new adventure for the company that has two weekly short-form improv shows but has never done a full-length improvised play.

"I've been doing improv for the better part of 15 years," says cast member Jim Foley. "but until now I've never gotten the chance to up the stakes and throw costumes and sets into the mix, so Slamming Doors feels alive in a totally unique way."

Unlike most shows where the actors learn their lines and blocking, the cast will go into each show with no idea what the story will be about.

"A three-act, full length, improvised farce, complete with costumes and sets specifically designed to change from night to night?" says cast member Christine Cauchon. "I'm terrified and exhilarated at every single rehearsal."

At the beginning of the show, the audience will help choose the city where the play takes place and the location of the first act.

"We'll experience it brand new, every night along with the audience," says Cauchon.

The cast includes Cauchon, Foley, Ashley Macamaux, Charlie Santos, Val Tarantino, and Witt Tarantino, who all have years of experience in both scripted and improvised work at the CTC. In the last year, the Contemporary Theater Company hosted improv teachers from Austin, New York, Los Angeles, Colombia, Italy, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and France.

"With years of training, travel, guest instruction, and dedicated study, our top improvisers have developed a reputation locally and nationally for creating unique and vibrant stories on the fly," says Christopher Simpson, who is co-directing the show alongside Ouardane Jouannot.

Slamming Doors is the most ambitious project the improvising wing of the Contemporary Theater Company has ever taken on. It promises to be a show to remember.

Tickets for performances and more information about the company are available online at www.contemporarytheatercompany.com or by calling 401-218-0282.

Pictured: (Clockwise from top) Riley Cash, Christine Cauchon, Charlie Santos, Ashley Macamaux. Photo by Seth Jacobson Photography.

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