CRUMBS loves the Winnipeg Improv Festival

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The Winnipeg iF... Improv Festival 2011 is just about here. That time of year when CRUMBS teams up with the local heroes of Winnipeg improv and we invite fabulous improv players from all over to come to our home town and show them our prairie hospitality.

This year we have guests coming from:

Atlanta, Georgia
Victoria, BC
Edmonton, AB
Toronto, ON

The Festival kicks off at the King's Head Pub on Sept 2oth for the annual Free Sampler Platter.

The rest of the fest then takes place at the Gas Station Theatre (at the corner of River & Osborne) Sept 22nd + 23rd +24th with amazing shows!

Be sure to watch a special Improv Festival episode of "The Week Thus Far" as CRUMBS is featured. You can watch this local show on ShawTV.

Now enjoy some videos of CRUMBS while they were at the Berlin International Impro Festival this spring.

Lee White and his creepy improvised monologue about numbers:

Crumbs 22.03.11 First Monologue from www.berlinimpro.de on Vimeo.

Stephen Sim and his improvised monologue about the power of being a cop:

Crumbs Police Monologue from www.berlinimpro.de on Vimeo.

CRUMBS show in the style of Walker Part 1

The Festival in Berlin had a theme this year, and it was improv performances in the style of... CRUMBS were asked to choose a Canadian playwright and after researching the topic we discovered that Canada indeed had some playwrights. We then chose George F. Walker. It then turned out that Walker was the only living playwright included in the Berlin Festival. This is the first show we did.

It started out with a cop who had gone bad (police was one of the suggestions). He has turned in his badge and gun and misses them badly. His partner is still crooked and is still dealing drugs.

He visits a mob boss at a cafe (lee has little no coffee knowledge) to try and get some more drugs and keep working in the criminal underworld. His wife is pregnant and he doesn't know. He becomes a mall cop to make ends meet (of course all his cop buddies make fun of him).

He is instructed to deliver a mysterious stuffed bunny (which is the other suggestion from the audience, but actually in the form of an actual stuffed bunny). He is also instructed to kill the chief of police. His wife thinks the stuffed bunny is for her and keeps it.

So, he fucks up, kills police chief, his partner dies... It doesn't end well for this crooked cop.