Instant Theatre
The core ensemble of Sidewalk Scenes, and An Undiscovered Shakespeare, bring you INSTANT THEATRE – a completely improvised one act play, based on your suggestions. Mayhem, music, mystery, and mirth! No two shows are ever the same!
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Cast and Creative
Ensemble Member: Rebecca Northan
Ensemble Member: Ijeoma Emesowum
Ensemble Member: Bruce Horak
Ensemble Member: Kevin Kruchkywich
Rebecca Northan is an actor, director, producer, and theatre creator. She has been improvising for over 30 years, and is a Canadian Comedy Award Winner. She is a co-creator of An Undiscovered Shakespeare, which would have had its world premier at the Stratford Festival this season. Rebecca has performed and directed in theatres across Canada, and is the creator of the international hit, Blind Date. She also creates live entertainment packages for corporate events, and teaches improvisation for business. Rebecca has guest-hosted This Hour Has 22 Minutes, been a regular on CBC Radio's Because News, and appears in TV & film.
Ijeoma Emesowum
Spanning 10 years Ijeoma has appeared in productions across the country and in over 25 productions at the both The Stratford Festival and The Shaw festival. Ijeoma is an avid theatre lover, Shakespeare speaker, and improvisor. Her work with children over the years stems from her passion for inspiring the next generation to live a life full of art.
Bruce Horak
Performer/Creator: Assassinating Thomson (The Forum and National Tour). This Is Cancer (Alberta Theatre Projects and several National Tours). Undercover (Spontaneous Theatre/Tarragon Theatre/Vertigo Theatre) Elsewhere: Aslan in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (Alberta Theatre Projects), Scenography in Queer Blind Date (High Performance Rodeo, One Yellow Rabbit/Spontaneous Theatre), Christmas Past/Narrator in A Christmas Carol, (National Arts Centre), Jake in Evil Dead: The Musical (Ground Zero/Hit and Myth). Artist on Board with The Railbirds (ViaRail), Artist in Residence, Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto Island). Training: Mount Royal College, Loose Moose Theatre, The Manitoulin Conservatory for Creation and Performance. Awards: Betty Mitchell Awards for This is CANCER, and Evil Dead: The Musical. Visual art and music can be found online at brucehorak.com
Kevin Kruchkywich
I am an actor, improviser and fight director who has worked back and forth across this country for almost 25 years. Since moving to Stratford with my lovely wife, I have worked almost exclusively with Drayton Entertainment and the Stratford Festival.
Instant Theatre is an offshoot of a core group of artists (who were supposed to be premiering An Undiscovered Shakespeare at the Stratford Festival this summer) who want to create theatre from and for their community. In May we started Sidewalk Scenes (sidewalkscenes.ca) and in July we began our Pavement Plays with a four-person Romeo & Juliet in conjunction with The Bruce Hotel (thebruce.ca).
Please sit forward and shout out a suggestion as we strive to invent a one-act play right before your eyes!