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If you’ve ever seen any truly bad improv or sketch comedy, then this is a show for you. 

Creator/performers Devin Mackenzie and Tom Hill clearly know their way around a comedy sketch and have seen more than their share of comedy disasters. Perhaps because of the expectations that come with a show being at the Improv Centre, from the moment you come in there is a boisterous, excited energy running through the audience, which is a great energy to be surrounded by. The show opens with Mackenzie and Hill sitting in the audience, impatiently waiting for the show to start....

Eurydice, while not a searing production, was a rare treat. The play by lauded American playwright, Sarah Ruhl, is one part nostalgic fable, one part modern comedy, with some gentle nods to ancient Greek theatre.  There’s a touch of the absurd in the script - stones who speak in chorus, a devil who rides a tricycle, an underworld hotel room made out of string.  The language is poetic yet clean, and there’s something about the crisp dialogue, a minimalist back and forth, that takes the scenes into a heightened magical realm while still feeling utterly modern.