vIRTEgo Circus
February 16 - March 16, 2024 — 8 - 9:30pm
IRTE @IRTE_IMPROV
For Immediate Release
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New York, NY
Nannette Deasy, Artistic Director, IRTE
Tel: 646-620-5051 / [email protected]
www.irteinfo.com
Something Funny This Way Comes!
vIRTEgo Circus
In the back roads of Anywhere, USA, a travelling carnival of lost souls and circus misfits will perform acts of improvisational derring-do based entirely on your wicked suggestions. Just be careful what you wish for. Wishes cost more than you imagine.
Original Concept: Nannette Deasy
Directed By: Robert Baumgardner
Developed by and Starring IRTE: Evie Aronson, Nannette Deasy, Sam Katz, and Vikki Martin
Featuring original, live music by John Munnelly
Technical Director: Tania Zhelieznikova
FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS
February 16, 17, 23 & 24, 2024,
March 1, 2, 15 & 16, 2024
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Tickets $20 Online / $25 Cash Only at the Door
The Producers Club
358 West 44th Street
New York, NY 10036
Improv meets Ray Bradbury in vIRTEgo Circus, a reimagining of the Improvisational Repertory Theater Ensemble’s 2013 dark comedy of the same name. Inspired by Something Wicked This Way Comes, IRTE invites you to join them in the Big Tent. MARVEL at the Mirror Maze. GASP at the 3-Headed Mystic. SING ALONG with the Human Calliope as IRTE mixes audience interactive games with an unfolding tale of regret, longing, and frustrated ambition.
For the past eleven years, IRTE, the Improvisational Repertory Theatre Ensemble, has been captivating audiences and winning accolades for their wildly funny and wildly absurd take on improvisational based theatre. This award-winning collective of comedy actors and writers develop, produce, and perform original comedies inspired by the Theatre of the Ridiculous movement, the work of Viola Spolin, and the indie comedy scene of turn-of-this-century’s NYC. Using only simple costumes and dime store props, they bring to life broad irreverent characters in a fluid and wildly funny night of improvised theatre.
Adult content. Parental discretion is advised. Please note that theater is not wheelchair accessible. Entrance into theater is up a flight of stairs.
Join IRTE as they break down barriers between audience and spectator in their dark sideshow, vIRTEgo Circus.
Praise for IRTE
Winner, Best Comedy, Tucson Fringe Festival 2020
Winner, “Artists Whose Work Made Me Laugh The Most”, 2017 Asheville Fringe Arts Festival
Winner, SHITFA (Supreme Honorary Improvised Theater & Film Award), 2014 Unscripted New York Improvised Theatre and Film Festival
“If you didn’t catch IRTE’s Virtego Circus Thursday night, you don’t know what you missed! Check it out.” Tampa Improv Festival
“…raucous and a hell of a lot of fun.” Jan Ewing, Ewing Reviewing
“…surprise-a-minute…” Jay Lloyd, CBS Philly, KYW News Radio
“…pure fun.” Anthony J. Piccione, OnStage Blog
“…theatre-goers will have a phenomenal time.” Amy Carothers, NYC Travels.