Halfway between theatre and...
Mark Andrada is an acclaimed clown (with a penchant for the dark and heartbreaking), a recognizable film/television actor, a technical wizard (some would say: maverick) and reputed bad boy within Toronto’s alternative comedy community. Julie Dumais is, in many ways, his polar opposite: spending obscene amounts of (very wholesome) time working with young improvisers through the Canadian Improv Games, serving as the female voice for an unidentified children’s television network and improvising all over the place (as well as founding and co-producing Toronto’s seminal catch23 IMPROV). Together, they are 10,000 to Flight – an irreverent improv duo that delights in playing with the audience (and their preconceptions) far more than in executing a classically “flawless” “scene”. Alternating between boozy, shocking, off-the-rails sets (the sort that have become the stuff of myth) and quiet, intimate, relationship-driven two-hander scenes… the traditionally accepted fourth wall that divides audience and performer does not exist for 10,000 to Flight.
And the audience always leaves talking.
