OK, so I was a little late last night. But they let me in anyway—yay!
I walked in on Gorilla Theatre doing their “Banana or Forfeit” game. It went like this:
# They had six or seven people playing
# Each one took a turn at directing a scene
# At the end of each scene the audience was asked whether we thought it was a “banana” (worthy of reward with a banana point) or a “forfeit” (not)
# Those awarded bananas by the audience got a banana sticker; those given forfeits had to a written instruction from choose from…
The Hat of Poetic Justice.
(That’s my name for it. I don’t know what the Gorillas call it.)
# At the end of the show (I think it was an hour) the player with the most banana stickers on them won
The Hat was definitely the funniest part. Like when one young New Zealander named Steven Youngblood directed a fairly dreadful scene. He got a well-deserved forfeit from the audience and the Hat told him to act all the parts in it. It gave me a warm glow in my tummy.
The Gorillas’ set was, in a nutshell, great theatre sports stuff. Entertaining, smart, hilarious. I ask nothing more from a theatre experience, improvised or not.
