Brody Theater

The Brody Theatre was at the Banks Public Library today for Washington County Library's "Hearing Voices" storytelling festival.  Jasper and I got to see them.  They presented "Tales of the Unprepared" in which they did lots of interesting improvisations based on suggestions from the audience.  Some of them were simple.  They picked an audience member, a very enthusiastic kid, to help, and they told a story where each person added just one word at a time to each sentence.  This would be a fun game to play with a group of children and adults together.  There were also more complicated improvisations.  At an audience suggestion they told "Jack and the Beanstalk", taking turns.  Each of four performers told the story from a unique point of view suggested by the audience (different literary and film genres).  It was really funny, and both the performers and the audience had a great time!  And I was delighted to learn that they offer classes in improv.  They aren't specifically for kids, so I'm assuming they would work for teens or adults.  They have a theater in downtown Portland where there are frequent, inexpensive, all ages performances.  They will have one final performance for the storytelling festival,   together with other storytellers at the finale show at Tigard Public Library at 7PM Saturday.   http://brodytheater.com/