LOIS KAZ
IVAN’S REVENGE: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT
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One of the best improv shows in quite some time is Lois Kaz on the E.T.C. stage of Second City. Witty and uncompromisingly intelligent, this long-form improv takes one simple audience suggestion and spins it out over the course of two hours without ever losing its focus or the element of surprise. Comprised of 13 of Chicago’s most gifted improv players, Lois Kaz is an unbelievably deft exercise in democratic theater: each performer’s talents are allowed to shine. Fine ensemble work created an unpretentious, cooperative atmosphere so thoroughly enjoyable and exciting that I was sorry to see it ending.
Audience suggestion? “Tonya Harding’s a tramp!”
On the night I attended, they invented a tale
