I was tempted to saturate my pantalones when the group
Parallelogramophonograph performed Improvised French Farce.
It was unclear how improvised this piece was- the four comic actors'
work together is magnifique. But who cares how they got there-
they had the whole audience laughing itself silly."
-Author Spike Gillespie, reviewing PGraph's 100% improvised show
"overflow the biggest stage with
their manic and often inspired improvisation."
-The Austin Chronicle
"Comedy improv in some ways is pure theatre, esp. keeping in mind Moliere and commedia dell'arte. Especially genre-based comedy like the "French Farce" show: good body types, intelligent, good tonal shifts and story points."
-A Writer's Report
"Easily funnier, more interesting,
original and professional than the improv we saw at
second city in the windy city."
-Rachel, 27, Austin, TX
"I know why they are the
headliners: they kick ass in everything they
do."
-Mike Kinald, Improv for Evil
"always been bright and
inventive"
-The Austin Chronicle
"No one in my group had seen nor
heard of this comedy troupe [PGraph], but everyone
left promising they will come back."
-Comment to StubDog.com, online ticket site.
"made me hurt, it was so
funny."
-Marc, 37, Austin, TX
"some of Austin's finest purveyors
of genre improvisation."
-The Austinist
"It's like ... like watching otters
at play onstage, actually: hyperintelligent,
human-shaped, joyously goofy otters."
-The Austin Chronicle
"if you haven't seen the graph in a
while, you should revisit them. they are sweeter
than ever now."
-Jeremy Lamb, co-founder of the Out of Bounds Improv
Festival
"Hi, I'm Amy Heckerling. That was a
really good show, I enjoyed it."
-Amy Heckerling, director of Clueless, Johnny
Dangerously, and Fast Times at Ridgemont High
"If every show we did was as much
fun as Parallelogramophonograph's Afterschool Improv
show last Thursday [...] we would be beating people
away with sticks."
-Andy Crouch, Manager of the Hideout Theatre
"Last night they tore Coldtowne
apart, rebuilt it better than before, tore it apart
again, then stood over the smoldering remains and
made us laugh yet again. Not only that, but they
started a fund to rebuild the theater. All this in
35 minutes."
-Ryan Harrison, Austin, TX
"You should come to Austin and see
a pgraph show."
-Live From Texas Blog
"You know those kids in high school
who made AP English bearable with some well-played
Grendel jokes? The dudes you met at the GWAR show
senior year who won UIL awards in Band? That funny
girl in art class who was actually good at art (and
wasn't there to make bongs out of driftwood)?
Local improv troupe Parallelogramophonograph are
those guys."
-The Austinist
and counting...
Pgraph Thursdays
day: Thursday
date: 12/4/2008
time: 8:00PM
ColdTowne
Improv, or improvisation, is a form of live theatre in which the acting, plot, dialog, and characters of a story or scene are made up in the moment.