VerdensScene: Undertone – improshow fra Miami

Verdensfolk er stolte av å presentere VerdensScene — vårt nye tilbud som setter fokus på teater og drama i et mangfoldig og levende perspektiv. I sommer inviterer vi til en spesiell improkveld på Melahuset med to internasjonale gjester fra Miami, David Christopher og Maria Kolovou, som besøker Oslo for aller første gang. De kommer rett fra noen av USAs mest kjente scener og festivaler og byr på en forestilling som både berører og underholder. Ingen manus. Ingen plan. Bare her og nå — med hverandre og med oss som publikum. Etter forestillingen blir det en liten Q&A med utøverne, hvor du kan stille spørsmål og få et innblikk i deres måte å jobbe på.

Praktisk info:
Dato: Lørdag 9. august
Tid: 20:00–22:00 (dørene og baren åpner 20:00, showstart 20:30)
Sted: Melahuset, Oslo
Billetter: Ordinær: kr 300/ Student/Honnør: kr 200. Kjøp dine billetter her. 
Språk: Engelsk

David og Maria om sitt arbeid:

“As performers, we are drawn to work that explores presence, relationship, and the unspoken dynamics between people. In our shows we fuse improvisation with theatrical craft to create unscripted performances that are alive, immediate, and emotionally resonant.”

UNDERTONE

Our simplest show—and one of the most revealing.

In Undertone, two performers step onto an empty stage with no script, no premise, and no plan—only each other. Together, they create improvised scenes driven by presence, relationship, and what lies beneath the words.

Without games or format, Undertone explores subtext, silence, and the subtle dynamics that shape human connection. Each performance is a unique encounter—simple, immediate, and deeply human.

BIOS

David Christopher, with over 30 years of improv and sketch comedy experience, is improv performer, director, instructor, and producer. A founding member and former owner of Miami’s home for improv and sketch comedy, and 7-time Best of Miami winner, Just The Funny. David is responsible for creating the improvisation and sketch writing curriculum and program at Just The Funny, where he teaches and coaches all six levels of improv acting classes, along with both the Harold workshop, narrative improv, hip hop improv, musical improv, and sketch writing classes. He is also the co-creator of The South Florida Improv Jam and is the executive producer of the Miami Improv Festival since its inception in 2003.

In addition to teaching at Just The Funny, David has also taught improv workshops and coached teams at The Improv Retreat, Spontaneous Combustion (Atlanta), Dallas Comedy Festival, Nestival (Columbus, OH), Sarasota Improv Festival, Curious Comedy Theater (Portland, OR), Bexar Stage (San Antonio, TX), Chaos Bloom Theater (Denver), The Torch Theatre (Phoenix), Park City Improv (Park City, UT), Gainesville Improv Festival, First Coast Comedy (Jacksonville), Jacksonville Laugh Fest, Tampa Bay Improv Festival, Palm Beach Improv Festival and The South Florida Improv Jam, where his workshop was featured in the Palm Beach Daily News. David has also been featured numerous times in both The Miami Herald and Miami New Times, and was featured in The Actor’s Other Career Book.

David has toured extensively and has performed improv at: iO Chicago, Curious Comedy Theater (Portland, OR), Hideout Theatre (Austin), SAK Comedy Lab (Orlando), Florida Studio Theater (Sarasota), Chaos Bloom Theater (Denver), Bexar Stage (San Antonio), Dallas Comedy House, The Basement Theatre (Atlanta), ComedySportz San Antonio, and Theater 99 (Charleston, SC).

David has trained with The Second City, The Groundlings, iO, UCB, Charna Halpern, Joe Bill, Mark Sutton, Susan Messing, Dave Razowsky, North Coast, The Improvised Shakespeare Company, Mike Delaney, and Asaf Ronen. He is a graduate of both New York University, earning a B.F.A. in film and television, and Florida International University, where he earned an M.B.A.

Maria Kolovou is an improviser, theater-maker, playwright, and educator based in Miami. Her work fuses improvisation, devised theater, and dramatic storytelling, with a particular focus on presence-driven and relational performance. For over a decade, she created award-winning devised theater in Greece, including two EU-funded projects, and received First Prize in Greece’s National Emerging Playwrights Competition in 2017 for her play Someone Light Up the Moon.

Maria is an active performer with Just The Funny Improv Theater and has trained in acting and directing. She teaches at the University of Miami, guiding faculty in storytelling, embodied inquiry, and theater-based learning. She holds a PhD in Teaching and Learning, with research on distributed creativity in science-theater collaborations, and a Master’s in Drama in Education from Trinity College Dublin.