You select a(NOTHER) setting! We perform it!

Attention Stranger Than Fiction fans! We (still) need your suggestions. Our epic medieval fantasy show was such a hit we’ve decided to continue with this interactive format.

Please post (below) a genre or historical setting to base a one-night-only, full length show performed during the second half of our weekly Tuesday Night Improv shows at The Players’ Ring. We’re looking for genres, time-periods, TV shows, or books (for example, Western, Star-Wars, The Hardy Boys, crime drama).  We’ll select a suggestion and perform a full-length, improvised show set entirely in the world you suggested. So what’s it going to be?  Robin Hood?  Disney movie?  Cops and gangsters?

What kind of suggestion are we likely to choose?  Here are some tips:

Be brief.  Try and sum it up in the name of a genre, movie, book, or TV show.  If your suggestion is more than four words you might be providing more details than we really need.  Which leads to the next suggestion.

Be general.  If you lay out all the details we’re left with little to make up on our own.  We can do so much more with “John Hughes movie” than with “teenagers in Wisconsin, 1986 at a drive-in with their robot friends.”

Cool?  Cool.  See you on Tuesday!

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Talking to Strangers: David Interviews Jon

David and JonThis summer Stranger Than Fiction cast members will interview each other… with silly questions. This week David Chevalier and Jon Wellington. Check back for a new interview each week!

DAVID: If you could eliminate one thing, would it be BO, vampire bats, or mustaches?

JON: Vampire BO (bet you saw that one coming). One of the frustrations with vampires lately is that they have become lame. Between Twilight and that Showtime show True Blood, vampires have become these smelly, emotionally unstable soap opera acting idiots. I want Nosferatu 2, where all he does for an hour and a half is beat up the common 21st century vampires who are too busy putting on sun screen and looking for love.

DAVID: What is your favorite kind of pain?

JON: My favorite kind of pain is physical pain. It’s tangible and you can touch it. It always comes from a source and as oppose to emotional, mental or spiritual pain you can usually easily identify that source of your physical pain and rain your own physical pain down upon it.

DAVID: How would it make you feel to find out you were a doppelganger of
the real you?

JON: I was slightly surprised when it DID happen but when I killed the other Jon Wellington (Won Jellington) years ago I felt released –a lot like Jet Li in the movie where he has to kill himself in all alternate universes making himself stronger. The day I destroyed myself and realized I was the evil twin I was hurt, but then I jumped and found that I could go 2 inches higher than I could earlier that day. It made everything worth it.

DAVID: What is the best shark?

JON: I like the tiger shark. It is brutal and smart. I want a tattoo across my entire back of a shark fighting a panda. I feel it symbolizes the raging battle within my soul.

DAVID: Please name three noises that can scare a puma.

JON: In all seriousness, a puma will not attack something unless they have stalked it and assessed that it can be taken without too much of a battle so… the sound of a bigger puma, the sound of man, the sound of a man in puma sneakers.

Have more questions for Jon Wellington? Drop him a comment.

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