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DESCRIPTION:The &ldquo\;Better Than Bingo Improvisation Group&rdquo\; wil
 l present an hour of improv at 1 p.m. Tuesday\, Aug. 7\, at the Oak Park
  Arms Retirement Community\, 408 S. Oak Park Ave. The group is from the 
 Life Long Learning Center. Improv is highly interactive with lots of aud
 ience participation.Improvised performance is as old as performance itse
 lf. The original performers were storytellers. From the 16th to the 18th
  centuries\, Commedia dell'arte performers in Italy improvised based on 
 a broad outline.Some people credit Dudley Riggs as the first vaudevillia
 n to use audience suggestions to create improvised sketches. Modern thea
 trical improvisation is generally accepted to have taken form in the imp
 rovisational acting exercises developed by Viola Spolin in the 1940s\, 5
 0s and 60s\, now known as Theater Games.Spolin influenced the first gene
 ration of Improv at The Compass Players in Chicago. Her son\, Paul Sills
 \, along with David Shepherd\, started The Compass Players and following
  its demise\, Sills began The Second City in Chicago. The Oak Park Arms 
 is a rental retirement community which provides independent and assisted
  living apartments and a full schedule of activities and services. Furni
 shed apartments are also available for a short-term stay - a weekend\, a
  week\, a month or longer.The workshop is free and open to the public. F
 or more information\, call Jill Wagner at 708-386-4040 or visit http://w
 ww.oakparkarms.com.
URL:http://oakpark.patch.com/events/better-than-bingo-improvisation-group
SUMMARY:Better Than Bingo Improvisation Group
LOCATION:Oak Park Arms Retirement Community: 408 S Oak Park Ave\, Oak Par
 k\, IL
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