Exploding Cigar Productions and The Butterfly Club
presents
THE RULE OF THREE
The Butterfly Club
Season dates: 10.30pm, Second
Saturday of the month (12 July, 16 August, 13
September, 11 October, 15 November, 13 December 2014)
Opening night: 10.30pm Saturday 12 July.
Stars of stage and screen, the funniest improvisers and
Melbourne’s best sketch comedians come out to play in this late night, lucky dip.
Improv
veteran Lliam Amor (Impro Melbourne, The Micallef Program) wanted a regular
room that catered to Melbourne’s burgeoning alternative improv and sketch scene,
so he has started one. Taking his cue from the explosion of these groups during
the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Lliam teamed up with Jason Geary (the iselect guy, Sketch-aggeddon) and Karl McConnell (SPARK Leadership, Calamity
Wayne) and created The Rule of Three.
“I
noticed there was a plethora of great stand-up rooms but nothing really for the
brilliant sketch and improv acts amongst us… I have my roots in the old Last
Laugh Theatre Restaurant and I wanted a return to the “anything goes” comedy
community I had seen in the ‘80s and ‘90s.” said Lliam Amor. After much venue
and soul searching they engaged the magnificent Butterfly Club – right in the
heart of the city – for a monthly, late night experience.
The
show features talented, experienced (and exceptionally funny) improvisers and
performers doing some of the best comedy you'll see anywhere. The schedule is
loaded with variety, ranging from character comedy, improvisation, musical scenes,
duos and scripted sketch.
Some
of the performers you are likely to see include: The Wizard Sandwiches, Lee
Naimo (The Axis of Awesome), Rama Nicholas (After Ever After), Adam McKenzie & Tegan Higginbotham (Watson), Ross Daniels (Graham Clone), Amanda Buckley (Impromptunes), Nicolette Minster (Girls Uninterrupted), Russell Fletcher, Geoff
Paine & Genevieve Morris (Spontaneous
Broadway), Damian Callinan (Out of
Print Book Club), Benjamin Russell, Jimmy James Eaton, Liam Ryan, Charlie
Sturgeon, Mark Gambino & Sophie Kneebone (The Big Hoo Haa), Gillian Cosgriff (This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things), Ben McKenzie (Dungeon Crawl), Anna Renzenbrink, Jamie Robertson (Impro Melbourne), Aurora Sheehan (Cabaret Queen), Helen Yotis (Eurobeat),
Vic Healy (We ♥
Comedy), Jack
Tandy & George Gayler (Gameshow,
Gameshow), Karin Muiznieks, Xavier Michelides and more.
Directed
and performed by Lliam
Amor, Jason Geary & Karl McConnell
Ticket
price: $10
The
Butterfly Club, Carson Place, off Little Collins St, Melbourne Vic 3000
Tickets here: www.thebutterflyclub.com/show/the-rule-of-three
