The Third Thought |
Long-form improv in Tampa Bay! The Third Thought is dedicated to creating truthful long form improv. Since forming in 2011 through a random series of incidents, the Third Thought has been celebrating the randomness of life at venues including the Del Close Marathon, American Stage, Coconut's Comedy Club.The Third Thought brings something new and different to Tampa Bay as one of the region's only long-form improv groups. |
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Improvology: A History of Group Mind
In a commedia dell’arte company contract dated 1546, members signed in agreement to maintain “fraternal love” and avoid activities destructive to the ensemble such as gambling with fellow players. This means that over 400 years ago, improv troupes knew that a strong, trusting ensemble was vital to a good performance. It also means that these commedia dell’arte players, our Italian improv ancestors, had the same struggles with maintaining a strong, trusting ensemble that we frequently do today.
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Notes The Third Thought Will Perform at the Gainesville Improv Festival!We were accepted into the Gainesville Improv Festival this year!!
We will be performing on Wednesday, February 1st at 8:00 p.m. along with The Apprentice Group from Gainesville and Formal Apology from Chicago.
Tickets are $8, $6 for students.
Tickets and more information is available at www.gainesvilleimprov.com.
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The Third Thought
Front Row (L-R) Heidi Lux, James Schrader
Back Row (L-R) Bett Correa, Billy Milec, Patrick McInnis
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Notes The Third Thought Will Return to American Stage - Again!
We have been asked back to American Stage (163 Third Street N, Downtown St. Pete) for the third time this year! We will be performing at Creative Loafing’s Best of the Bay Best Theatre Company on December 18th at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets are pay-what-you-can at the door ($5 - $15 suggested) or $15 in advance. Ensure yourself a seat and purchase your tickets here
We will be pulling out all of the stops for this show! See you there!
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Notes Celebrate the End of the World with The Third Thought
According to author Carl Johan Calleman’s interpretation of the Mayan calendar, the world is set to end* on not 12/21/12, but on October 28th, 2011.
The good news is, The Third Thought will be performing long-form improv comedy every Thursday until the end of the world (or the end of October – whichever comes first).
The show will take place at Jack’s Joint (2950 Gulf-to-Bay, Clearwater – near Ceviche) at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $5 – get two for one when you mention this post (because it’s better not to end the world alone).
Come celebrate the end of the world with us!
* End of the world not guaranteed. No refunds will be administered if the world does not end.
- Link Member of The Third Thought successfully completed 30 sketches in 30 days as part of National Sketch Writing Month. Congrates Bett.
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Notes"My job is to beat the funny out of you….people are putting way to much pressure on themselves to be funny, be clever to give the quick come back….. Go with the connection first and the dialog will flow out."Jimmy Carrane, original member of Annoyance Theater and Jazz Freddy, quoted on Kevin Mullaney’s Improv Resource Center.
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"Standups tell universal truth, improvisers show universal truth."
Jimmy Carrane- Speaking on Kevin Mullaney’s Improv Resource Center Podcast
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NotesDoing it up O-Town style!
On Sunday, we performed at the Orlando Improv Festival which was pretty much the funnest ever (obviously besides the Del Close Marathon, but that’s because it’s the fucking Del Close Marathon).
We performed on the same bill as The Second Thought from Ocala, Florida, and their short-form set was awesome!
We had a great show, and it was so much fun really entertaining the crowd. Thank you so much to everyone who made it out! If you couldn’t make it up to O-Town, here’s the video of our performance, complete with 40 year-old-virgins, cussing high school teachers unions, America’s Next Top Child Bride and all!
