The Improvisors Present: Snake Oil Featuring Greg Ellis

Friday, 13 May 2011, 3:08 pm
Press Release: The Improvisors

Media Release for immediate use: Friday 13th May 2011
New Zealand International Comedy Festival 2011

The Improvisors Present:
Snake Oil
Featuring Greg Ellis

Greg Ellis returns to Circa with a charlatan’s one-man improv comedy!

Greg Ellis returns with his second solo improvised comedy show following last year’s successful Holmes Alone – winner of the “Now!” Award at the 2010 NZ Improv Festival.

This time he takes you into the world of Dr. Artemis Lovelace: explorer, raconteur, amateur chemist and snake oil salesman.

Citizens of Port Nicholson it is with great cordiality that esteemed pharmacologist and adventurer Dr. Artemis Lovelace invites you to the unveiling of a most excellent elixir!

For those of you who, through no fault of your own but through the geographical exigencies of this benighted colony, are unaware of my vaunted reputation allow me to elucidate my reputation.

I am he who braved the blasted frigidity of the far-flung Hindu Kush to bring back a liver cleansing tincture of such efficacy that the Sultana of Marrakech was completely cured of her apoplexy. I commend to you my services as a man of medicine, a pusher back of the murky boundaries of geography, a connoisseur of tea and an old Oxonian.

Prepare to be amazed, delighted and awed at my tales of research in the field and the development of a draught so wondrous it will alter your existence

Snake Oil is a journey into a world of tall tales, bogus cures and Victoriana, as one man attempts to bring to the stage a tale that is too epic to be true!

Improv has taken Ellis all over the world, as a professional comedian and Theatresports athlete. He has represented New Zealand at both Commonwealth and World Cup level.

“Greg Ellis is as excellent an improviser as Sherlock Holmes is a detective . . . the way he deals with entrances, exits and swift exchange of dialogue is very funny and satisfying” – Theatreview.org.nz, Holmes Alone 2010

Proud to be part of the 2011 NZ International Comedy Festival
www.comedyfestival.co.nz

Dates: 15 - 18 May, 9.30pm
Venue: Circa Two, 1 Taranaki St, Wellington
Tickets: Adults $18, Conc. $15
Bookings: 04 801 7992 or www.circa.co.nz

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