Saturday Nite Leftovers is an improvisation theatre group composed of 10 to 12 high school and college students. They are directed by two Washington University Drama Department staff members, Alan and Joanna Nichols.
The Nicholses came to St. Louis several years ago on a grant designed to stimulate experimental theatre activities in the St. Louis area. Saturday Nite Leftovers grew and has grown out of that experience over the last four years.
Leftovers performances are now based at the U. City Library every first and third Saturday, starting at 9:00 and the house is always packed.
Improvisational theatre is for the audience that wants to participate or be involved (physically, emotionally, and mentally) in the performer’s search for those deep feelings of joy, pain, love, or hurt he must portray for his audience. After a performance you have a heightened sense of awareness toward your own feelings, instead of a “scripted” recognition of those feelings within you.
The Leftovers are contemplating relocating their regular performance home here in the neighborhood (perhaps at Grace Methodist or at Delmar Baptist Church). Henry Hall, Breitmayer Memorial Minister at Grace is seeking to form a committee of Leftover supporters to plan a preview for early July featuring Saturday Nite Leftovers and a discussion following the performance to focus on just how the Leftovers could help the neighborhood satisfy its community theatre needs. Call Henry Hall (863-1992) for further inquiries or if you’d like to help make regular community theatre a new asset to the Skinker-DeBaliviere experience.
Originally published in The Paper, June 1975.
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Original source: SD_Times1975_06.pdf, printed page(s) 4; PDF page(s) 4.
