2008 Woodie Awards
Broken links: Comedy troupe fails to bring laughter
Comedy Review: Chainlink - 1 of 5 stars
By: Breanna Herschelman
Issue date: 11/16/06 Section: LifeStyle
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The Chainlink Theatre and Improv Troupe performed their first show of the year in the University Center Sunnen Lounge to what started out as a crowd of approximately 70 people. But by the end of the show, only about 15 remained.
Where did the show go wrong? In the past, they opened for Laughs on the Landing, but this year president Kathleen Weber said she felt the troupe was ready to perform by themselves.
"We did one show by ourselves last year," Weber, a junior video production major, said. "But we decided to show off our own talent this year."
Where was this talent Weber spoke of? It was nowhere to be found.
Weber hosted the show, which featured a series of segments where the 12 actors improvised various roles, mostly chosen by audience members. The first segment was called "movie trailer." The actors had to improvise a trailer to a movie while another actor narrated in the background.
One segment, called "fourplay," featured four actors, each given a character chosen by the audience. These characters each had to interact with one other character in a given scene as they rotated.
Sophomore Bryant Gilmore, a scriptwriting major, said "fourplay" was his favorite of all the segments.
"For their first show of the semester, they had both good and bad parts," Gilmore said. "But they need more practice."
The show, originally slated to start at 9:30 p.m., began 15 minutes late while the troupe waited for junior Matt Grant, a film production major, to arrive. Waiting for Grant proved to be a good idea because he and senior Steve Clemmons, a film production and screenwriting major, brought most of the laughs.
Sophomore Molly Pearson, a creative writing major, agreed with my assumption.
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