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Sarasota News Leader June 28, 2013 Page 93 (Chicago), The Third Thought (Tampa), Hawk & Wayne (St. Petersburg), Lazy Fairy (Sarasota) and the "home team" troupes — FST Improv and Vintage Whine. Sure to be audience favorites are "new kids on the block" Smith & I (Chicago), Sick Puppies Comedy (Boca Raton) and Mad Cowford (Jacksonville), the release adds. This year a brand new group has been add- Rebecca Hopkins, Sarasota Improv festival director and FST managing director, said in the release, "It is hard to believe it is already the fifth anniversary for the festival. The first year we did it, we thought it might be a one- of "off-the-cuff" comedy, the release continues. ed for a special event on the Gompertz Stage, the release points out. The Improvised Shakespeare Company is based on one audience suggestion: a title for a play that has yet to be written. From that suggestion, the troupe creates a fully improvised Elizabethan-style show, to provide the audience one and a half hours This hit group hails from Chicago where it has been called, "Smart, sophisticated, downright hilarious" and "Staggeringly brilliant" by Tim- eOut Chicago. The New York Times agreed time event, but Sarasota loves to laugh and stating, the troupe is filled with "on-the-spot has embraced it fully." soliloquies and perfect pentameter." The Improvised Shakespeare Co. performs Rubber Crazy. YouTube link courtesy of The Improvised Shakespeare Co.