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Starla and Sons is a longform
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group at Brown University in Providence,
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. The group was formed with five members in the fall of 2006. It is the second longform group in the university's history, and has performed about twice a month since its inception. The group currently has eight members, and performs fast-paced traditional longform forms like the
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, Deconstruction, and Monoscene, as well as its own invention, the Starla. In 2008, Starla and Sons hosted the first annual College Hill Longform Improv Festival (CHLIF), a 24-hour continual longform improv performance. Eleven college and professional groups, including ImprovBoston and Unexpected Company, performed in the festival. Starla and Sons also performed at the 15th Annual Del Close Marathon at the UCB Theater in New York City.DCM 15: Starla and Sons
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Improvisational theatre Improvisational theatre, often called improvisation or improv, is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned or unscripted: created spontaneously by the performers. In its purest form, the dialogue, a ...
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