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Taking Time To Make It Right
The Swarm (New York)
Reviewed by William McEvoy
From improvreview.com
The Swarm, from the Uprgith Citizens Brigade Theater in New York have already netted themselves a four star review
from Improv Review. I'm happy to say that their high quality work has continued, and they brought a thoughtful, patient
show to the Chicago Improv Festival this year.
The format, if there is one, isn't very evident, so scenes move effortlessly from one
scene to another. The actors are patient with their materials, and their characters,
fully aware that silence can give a pwoerful message. This was particularly
noteworthy in the work of William Merritt and Michael Delaney, who opened up this
evening's scenes with a piece in a prison tattoo parlor. Mr. Merritt as the tattoo artist
taking his time between lines. His work reminds me of some of John Goodman's dramatic efforts.
The bulk of the scenes this evening centered on the prison setting. Andy Secunda
created what at first glance was a throwaway character, a rather dimwitted prison
denizen intent on escaping, but as the show developed, so did his character. Sean
Conroy played the affable prison warden who runs his prison like a high school for
delinquents, walking among the prison population without so much as a guard.
The Swarm makes good improv, takes their time, and keeps it real.
