Silly String Theory returns this week. Grab your tickets!

Silly String Theory is a ground-breaking improvised play that picks strands from our lives and explores how we meet, part, love and live together.

Silly String Theory returns by invite to the Canal Cafe Theatre, after the first series last December. Devised and directed by Katy Schutte ("...could easily hold [her] own with the likes of Merton, Frost and Jupitus" - Chortle) it features songs and real life monologues, learning what it means to be human and interact with others.

19th-21st & 26th-28th April. Tickets available HERE

CAST:

• Jason Blackwater (The Maydays, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story)
• Jinni Lyons (8bit, Campionati del Mondo di Match semi-finalist)
• Chris Mead (The Ood Cast, Project Two)
• Jules Munns (Slap Dash Impro Festival, The Improsarios)
• Katy Schutte - (News Revue, Katy & Rach, The Maydays)

Music by: Phil Lunn (News Revue, The Scat Pack)
Directed by Katy Schutte

Thursday 19th - Saturday 21st, Thursday 26th - Saturday 28th April

Time: 7.30pm.

Cost: £10 Tickets available HERE.

Where: The Canal Cafe Theatre, Delamere Terrace, Little Venice, London W2 6ND.

Silly String Theory: Serendipity

"When I moved to London my parents brought up some old furniture, including a bedside cabinet. Inside was a lone pad of PostIt notes, which had my best mate from university's family phone number on it. Weird, I thought, I'll give him a ring, as I'd been abroad for years. He was moving to London soon. One day in a pub I looked up, and saw him on a stool three feet to my left. We laughed. A week later we bumped into each other again. On the third occasion we said 'we have to honour this'. We lived together for five years."
- Dave 7/4/12

Silly String Theory is a ground-breaking improvised play that picks strands from our lives and explores how we meet, part, love and live together.

19th-21st April & 26th-28th April

Time: 7.30pm.

Cost: £10 Tickets available HERE.

Where: The Canal Cafe Theatre, Delamere Terrace, Little Venice, London W2 6ND.

Silly String Theory: Serendipity 7

"I recently got a motorbike back to roadworthy order after it'd sat in the garage for nearly a year. Proudly mentioning this on various social networking sites was responded to by two kinds of people. One kind telling me to be careful, the others enquiring about the bike. An Irish chap, Neil, I met recently at an improv workshop was one with such enquiries. "What bike have you got?" he asked, "I've got a Honda Deauville."
"No way!" I responded. "I used to have a Deauville. I bought It from an ex-Irish bike cop!.. I loved that bike. Now I've just got a little 125cc Chopper."
"My first bike was a 125 chopper," says he, "All my Irish bike-cop friends ride Deauvilles."

I proceeded to send him a picture of my first bike; a Yamaha Virago. "That was my second bike," he replied, "... same paint job."
"Next you'll tell me you had a Bandit or a SV650." I suggested, knowing this is where this would end...
"I nearly had a Bandit. I also nearly had an RT1200," he told me.
"Yep. I looked into getting an RT1200 at one point. Specifically that. But then again I nearly bought a Mazda MX-5 a couple of weeks ago." At this point I wondered if there was such a thing as a 'Bike Twin'.
"Oh, I had an MX-5 before my current car," Neil said.

... 'Car twins?'

"I didn't buy it in the end. I decided to stick with my boring-but-practical Renault Laguna," ... no-one likes Lagunas, I thought.
"That's what car I have now... I'm going to have a conversation with my parents," he wrote.

Yep."
- Jonathan 7/4/12

Silly String Theory is a ground-breaking improvised play that picks strands from our lives and explores how we meet, part, love and live together.

19th-21st April & 26th-28th April

Time: 7.30pm.

Cost: £10 Tickets available HERE.

Where: The Canal Cafe Theatre, Delamere Terrace, Little Venice, London W2 6ND.

Silly String Theory: Serendipity 5

"I was on the set of the TARDIS the other day. No big deal. Sometimes I'm on the set of my favourite television programme in the world. No big deal. It happens. Get over it. Anyway, I met a tall Canadian. He was tall and good looking and garrulous. Like you expect them to be. He had an easy going way about him and smelt of maple. We got talking. About halfway through the conversation I was struck by something, an intuition I guess. "Are you an improvisor?" I asked. It turned out that not only was he an improvisor but he worked with one of my favourite Improv troupes, Die Nasty AND we had friends in common. And yet we had met on the set of a time machine in far off Cardiff, strangers in a crowd who struck up a random conversation. Yesterday I got a text 'Going to catch a Improv show near London Bridge tomorrow. Want to come?' - I told him I would. It was my show."
- Chris 5/4/12

Silly String Theory is a ground-breaking improvised play that picks strands from our lives and explores how we meet, part, love and live together.

19th-21st April & 26th-28th April

Time: 7.30pm.

Cost: £10 Tickets available HERE.

Where: The Canal Cafe Theatre, Delamere Terrace, Little Venice, London W2 6ND.

Silly String Theory: Serendipity 4

"Dear Gramps,
Today is the 4th April and would have been your 87th birthday. I realised yesterday that you are the only person of whose birthdays I have distinct memories. I remember you turning 66 when I was little and then thinking for years that you were 66 as I had not really grasped the concept of ageing. I remember your 70th, when everyone clubbed together and bought you a flight in a Tiger Moth, your 75th at The Winterbourne Arms and your 80th, when I made you a chocolate cake and Mummy and I managed to fit 80 gold candles on it. She had to hold my hair back as we presented it to you so that I didn't catch fire.
So many numbers. In 3 days, you will have been dead for 6 months. So many numbers.
Marcus Aurelius said in 46 AD that "everything in eternity is of like forms and comes around in a circle". I find this quite comforting, that everyone has felt this way before. But Professor Brian Cox tells us of the arrow of time, constantly moving forward. I don't know how those two fit together.
So many numbers, when all that really matters is days, nights and seasons. To me, your birthday has always heralded the spring.

Lots of love, Jinni xxx

P.S. You were right, whisky is actually quite nice."
- Jinni 4/4/12

Silly String Theory is a ground-breaking improvised play that picks strands from our lives and explores how we meet, part, love and live together.

19th-21st April & 26th-28th April

Time: 7.30pm.

Cost: £10 Tickets available HERE.

Where: The Canal Cafe Theatre, Delamere Terrace, Little Venice, London W2 6ND.

Silly String Theory: Serendipity 3

"I've lived in a few places in Brighton but my last move was founded more out of desperation than choice. I had to move into the first available house I could afford and where I now live is it. Upon moving in and meeting my housemates, it transpired one was girlfriend to the brother of one of my long term improv students, and another was best friend to one of my best friends from drama school from when they both lived on the Isle of White! "
- Jason 3/4/12

Silly String Theory is a ground-breaking improvised play that picks strands from our lives and explores how we meet, part, love and live together.

19th-21st April & 26th-28th April

Time: 7.30pm.

Cost: £10 Tickets available HERE.

Where: The Canal Cafe Theatre, Delamere Terrace, Little Venice, London W2 6ND.

Silly String Theory: Serendipity 2

"I used to live in Kentish town, near to a very well known actor who I shall not name. A frequenter of the bookshops on the high street, I bought many odd books there. One of them was a novel about an academic discovering from old papers that she is the last of a long line of vampires. The book contained three things: a photo of a beautiful young woman, who turned out to be the actor’s daughter, a receipt from a bookshop in Venice, and a piece of headed paper with a list of films on it. I guess the ones he crossed out were the ones he turned down. "
- Jule 2/4/12

Silly String Theory is a ground-breaking improvised play that picks strands from our lives and explores how we meet, part, love and live together.

19th-21st April & 26th-28th April

Time: 7.30pm.

Cost: £10 Tickets available HERE.

Where: The Canal Cafe Theatre, Delamere Terrace, Little Venice, London W2 6ND.

Silly String Theory: Serendipity 1

"London is a massive, sprawling place. You never really bump into people you know like you do in a small town. But, like there are 8 degrees of Kevin Bacon, there is 1 degree of improvisers. In Italy at the Match Improvvisazione Teatrale, Jinni and I met two English improvisers in Piza who have mutual improv friends in London, despite the fact that they haven't been in the country for years. Teaching a course last weekend, one of my students who used to live in London lived in the flat next to the one I live in now. One degree."
- Katy 1/4/12

Silly String Theory is a ground-breaking improvised play that picks strands from our lives and explores how we meet, part, love and live together.

19th-21st April & 26th-28th April

Time: 7.30pm.

Cost: £10 Tickets available HERE.

Where: The Canal Cafe Theatre, Delamere Terrace, Little Venice, London W2 6ND.