Thoat Culture keeps it cozy with 24-hour Show
This past Saturday, students braved the rain and cold to attend Throat Culture's annual 24-hour Experiment at the Arellano Theatre. After all, why not? What's not to like about spending the night with friends, laughing at dirty jokes and wicked jabs at longtime Hopkins institutions?
Despite the rain, the atmosphere at the Theatre was cozy and intimate, magnified by the low lights of the theatre. Everyone seemed to know someone in the cast and the ambiance reflected this, with a number of callouts and conversations.
Even a few proud parents gazed on as their children performed in front of diehard fans.
The idea behind the 24-hour Experiment is simple: Followers of the Facebook group posted prompts during the week preceding the show.
Throat Culture performers read their prompts Friday at 8 p.m. and spent the next 24 hours brainstorming, writing and rehearsing their sketches.
In the end, they managed a total of 12 acts. Their productivity did not go unrewarded: Everyone, including president Richard Zheng and directors Andrew Yip and Luke Mayhew, managed a few hours of sleep.
At showtime, Arellano Theatre was almost completely packed. There were few seats to be found as friends and family mingled before the show.
Most of the attendees were in high spirits - some drunk on the loose, irreverent humor and others drunk on, well, the other kind of spirits.
Junior Andrew Yip and senior Erica Bauman started the show off with a series of quick-paced rhyming couplets and dirty limericks that set the crowd laughing.
The humor that Throat Culture adopted was a combination of fast-tempo pop culture riffs and nerd-chic comedy. Performers were just as likely to take a jab at Sarah Jessica Parker (the eternal question: Does anyone find her attractive?) as they were to make fun of themselves.
A few sketches fell flat - due, perhaps, to the nature of the prompts, which straddled the spectrum of completely arbitrary to weirdly specific - but for the most part, the performers pulled off a very convincing show.
Despite the rain, the atmosphere at the Theatre was cozy and intimate, magnified by the low lights of the theatre. Everyone seemed to know someone in the cast and the ambiance reflected this, with a number of callouts and conversations.
Even a few proud parents gazed on as their children performed in front of diehard fans.
The idea behind the 24-hour Experiment is simple: Followers of the Facebook group posted prompts during the week preceding the show.
Throat Culture performers read their prompts Friday at 8 p.m. and spent the next 24 hours brainstorming, writing and rehearsing their sketches.
In the end, they managed a total of 12 acts. Their productivity did not go unrewarded: Everyone, including president Richard Zheng and directors Andrew Yip and Luke Mayhew, managed a few hours of sleep.
At showtime, Arellano Theatre was almost completely packed. There were few seats to be found as friends and family mingled before the show.
Most of the attendees were in high spirits - some drunk on the loose, irreverent humor and others drunk on, well, the other kind of spirits.
Junior Andrew Yip and senior Erica Bauman started the show off with a series of quick-paced rhyming couplets and dirty limericks that set the crowd laughing.
The humor that Throat Culture adopted was a combination of fast-tempo pop culture riffs and nerd-chic comedy. Performers were just as likely to take a jab at Sarah Jessica Parker (the eternal question: Does anyone find her attractive?) as they were to make fun of themselves.
A few sketches fell flat - due, perhaps, to the nature of the prompts, which straddled the spectrum of completely arbitrary to weirdly specific - but for the most part, the performers pulled off a very convincing show.
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