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The suggestion is taken from the audience as a single word (ex: "Atlantis"). Then, the cast adds one word at a time to that word, eventually forming the title of a book or short story (ex: "Atlantis Burns When You Sink It"). All three unique stories are based off of that generated title.
The suggestion is taken from the audience as a single word (ex: "Atlantis"). Then, the cast adds one word at a time to that word, eventually forming the title of a book or short story (ex: "Atlantis Burns When You Sink It"). All three unique stories are based off of that generated title.
== Past Shows ==
====The Threefer, The Hideout Theatre - 2/2/2017====
'''Baptism Under the Waters of Life'''
''Suggestion: "Baptism"''
* A waiter serves his regular dine-in customer - a frantic, neurotic man
* Two fishermen brave a storm in the Alaskan sea atop their fishing boat
* An orphan happens upon a gentleman who teaches him the proper way to be a thief
''On a regular visit to dine with his father, one of the fishermen is caught committing a crime and is imprisoned. The frantic man bonds with the waiter while waiting for his son to dine with him and recants stories of their past. Meanwhile, the orphan gets caught thieving soon after being taught the proper way to steal, and he gets thrown in jail. Over time, the orphan continues to commit crimes and misbehave in jail because it's the safest life and only shelter he's ever known; it is there where he meets with the fisherman and forms a relationship with him as they examine what "a second chance" (essentially, a baptism) means for the two of them.''
====Improv Mix-Tape, The Institution Theater - 2/28/2017====
'''Diving from the Highest Highs Leads to the Best Endings'''
''Suggestion: "Diving"''
* A waiter serves his regular dine-in customer - a frantic, neurotic man
* Two fishermen brave a storm in the Alaskan sea atop their fishing boat
* An orphan happens upon a gentleman who teaches him the proper way to be a thief
''On a regular visit to dine with his father, one of the fishermen is caught committing a crime and is imprisoned. The frantic man bonds with the waiter while waiting for his son to dine with him and recants stories of their past. Meanwhile, the orphan gets caught thieving soon after being taught the proper way to steal, and he gets thrown in jail. Over time, the orphan continues to commit crimes and misbehave in jail because it's the safest life and only shelter he's ever known; it is there where he meets with the fisherman and forms a relationship with him as they examine what "a second chance" (essentially, a baptism) means for the two of them.''


== Upcoming Shows ==
== Upcoming Shows ==

Revision as of 14:49, 5 March 2017


Twine

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Years Active 2016-
Cast

Twine is an improvised theater group in Austin, TX, that specializes in telling stories that explores connections between characters through grounded and playful theater-work.

Format

Current Formats

Loose Ends (Braid)

For the first part of the show, three individual, varying, and unique stories are explored; then, for the final part of the show, the three stories are woven together in a braid, with the connections between the stories being something as simple and concrete as the characters from different stories interacting with each other to something more conceptual like motifs running between the stories.

The suggestion is taken from the audience as a single word (ex: "Atlantis"). Then, the cast adds one word at a time to that word, eventually forming the title of a book or short story (ex: "Atlantis Burns When You Sink It"). All three unique stories are based off of that generated title.


Past Shows

The Threefer, The Hideout Theatre - 2/2/2017

Baptism Under the Waters of Life Suggestion: "Baptism"

  • A waiter serves his regular dine-in customer - a frantic, neurotic man
  • Two fishermen brave a storm in the Alaskan sea atop their fishing boat
  • An orphan happens upon a gentleman who teaches him the proper way to be a thief

On a regular visit to dine with his father, one of the fishermen is caught committing a crime and is imprisoned. The frantic man bonds with the waiter while waiting for his son to dine with him and recants stories of their past. Meanwhile, the orphan gets caught thieving soon after being taught the proper way to steal, and he gets thrown in jail. Over time, the orphan continues to commit crimes and misbehave in jail because it's the safest life and only shelter he's ever known; it is there where he meets with the fisherman and forms a relationship with him as they examine what "a second chance" (essentially, a baptism) means for the two of them.

Improv Mix-Tape, The Institution Theater - 2/28/2017

Diving from the Highest Highs Leads to the Best Endings Suggestion: "Diving"

  • A waiter serves his regular dine-in customer - a frantic, neurotic man
  • Two fishermen brave a storm in the Alaskan sea atop their fishing boat
  • An orphan happens upon a gentleman who teaches him the proper way to be a thief

On a regular visit to dine with his father, one of the fishermen is caught committing a crime and is imprisoned. The frantic man bonds with the waiter while waiting for his son to dine with him and recants stories of their past. Meanwhile, the orphan gets caught thieving soon after being taught the proper way to steal, and he gets thrown in jail. Over time, the orphan continues to commit crimes and misbehave in jail because it's the safest life and only shelter he's ever known; it is there where he meets with the fisherman and forms a relationship with him as they examine what "a second chance" (essentially, a baptism) means for the two of them.


Upcoming Shows

Austin


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