Into the dark
Into the dark
18 MAY 2024
with Jayda Fogel
1 DAY LAB
Welcome to the Dark, would you like to hear a story?
Saturday May 18 2024
10.30-15.30 (there will be a lunch break)
Rue General Leman
€15 payable on the weekend itself (free for currently enrolled ImproBubble Students)
As improvisers, we're used to using our bodies to tell a story. In this lab, the challenge is not to constantly talk or give dialogue, but become "foley artists" (foley: the reproduction of everyday sound effects that are added to films). To be able to use our bodies and our voices to create a fully immersive oral experience for the audience. You don't need to be able to "see" to watch this. We are all together in the dark.
NB this is a lab to workshop the show format ‘‘In the Dark’’, premiering in Lisbon in July 2024 and which you will practice in the lab with your director. This is the show description:
In your little pocket of the world the sun never rises but life, people, jobs, the world continue to go on, you just can't "see it." They live surrounded by music and noise, in a place created only for your imagination. We invite you to use your ears instead, to listen in and be a voyeur to a story and characters created for your listening pleasure. Be advised, this show is an immersive musical and audio experience, the characters are all around you and this tale is meant to be heard, not seen.
Jayda Fogel
Jayda is a performer, writer, and musician who spent the entirety of lockdown acting in actual play streams on twitch. As an improviser and actor she has taught, coached, and performed in Canada and Europe for well over a decade, including as a Company Member of Loose Moose Theater, a Comfort Woman on AMC's "Hell on Wheels," and the sketch comedy project "Bi-Popular Demand." When not wrangling multisyllabic rhyme structures, she performs her improvised projects "Talk Radio", "¡Horario Estelar¡" Telenovela, international all-female playback collective "Kismet," narrative "Bird & Troll Tell a Story," and "SadoMusical" (Edinburgh Fringe). She is the co-founder of the band Bird & Tax Collector, played Tris in FigmentRP's “Questor's of Yalpelor,” and is also part of the cast of Easylaughs Amsterdam's Short Form team. She'll be directing "Into the Dark" in Lisbon at the Irreverente 2024 Improv Festival this July!