contact: roy@janik.org | schedule of show formats: http://www.pgraph.com
7:40pm (duration: 45 minutes), 8-27 August (excluding sundays)
theSpaces on The Mile (Venue 39), 80 High Street, EH1 1TH
“Austin’s finest purveyors of genre improvisation.” -The Austinist
Parallelogramophonograph has come all the way from Austin, Texas to present a new style of improv at The Fringe: theatrical, narrative-driven improvisation. This theatre group is comprised of four company members who obsessively study story structure and relentlessly research genre. The result is an improvised one-act play that is purposeful and stylized, yet still comedic and playful.
During the Fringe, PGraph is presenting show concepts created from their more than five years and 365 performances together. On a given night, an audience member might see a French farce, a twisted story of villainy, a 1940s screwball comedy, a dark collection of Grimm’s fairy tales, or an open-ended story from scratch. All of these concepts, though wildly different, spring from an attention to detail, a mischievous playfulness, and a love for satisfying narratives.
Each member of Parallelogramophonograph believes that while improv is inherently comedic, there’s no reason it can’t also be tense, touching, inspirational, heart-breaking, and cathartic. Their goal with every show is to push both themselves and the art of improvisation to new and dizzying heights while taking the audience along for a joyous ride.
“It’s like … like watching otters at play onstage, actually: hyperintelligent, human-shaped, joyously goofy otters.” -The Austin Chronicle
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