"Synergy Theater opened its loving homage to Stephen King last week at Walnut Creek's Lesher Center for the Arts. Improvised Stephen King: The Improvised Comedy that's a Screaming Good Time! certainly has more laughs than a typical film by the King of Horror and with a lot more audience participation. In this latest comedy improv creation by Synergy Theater, Stephen King has sold his soul to a legion of demons in exchange for a lifetime of fame and fortune as a writer."
"Whenever he develops writer's block, King asks the demons to tell him what happens next, e.g. what is the young wife hiding from her husband, what profession is the husband in, etc. The night I saw the show, the audience decided the wife was hiding the fact she was really a horse and the husband earned a living as a hula dancer. Additional audience suggestions took the story in even more fantastical directions."
Synergy Theater stages an improvised Stephen King–themed comedy at Walnut Creek's Lesher Center for the Arts. The premise imagines King in 1981 who has sold his soul to demons and calls on the audience to supply plot details whenever he hits writer's block. Audience choices determine character secrets and professions, producing wild, fantastical scenes such as a wife secretly being a horse and a husband working as a hula dancer. Kenn Adams portrays King, Elyse Iovino plays the wife/horse, Ben Piper plays the husband, and Adrian Bosada contributes horse-like movements. The production excels at embracing audience input but requires tighter pacing to sustain energy; it runs through Sunday, with tickets by phone or online.
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