UPCOMING SHOWS
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IMPROMPTU POTTER
Length - 60 - 90 mins Show - Completely spellbinding, improvisers will bring your audience inspired, never seen before, magical suggestions to life in a competitive improvised super scene. Improvisers will perform scenes as voted by the audience, storytelling using suggestions, their wits and wiles, in order to entertain and delight. Feel free to come to the show dressed in your best Harry Potter costumes to cheer on your favorite Hogwarts house. There may be magical prizes in store for the best dressed... 18+ show, adults only * All ages performances can be scheduled upon request, or booked for private events. Next Performance - Returning to the stage in 2024... [Created, produced and hosted by Rachelle Lachland] |
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GHOSTED
Length - 60 - 90 mins Show - Laugh as a cast of talented improvisers explore what love and dating is like in today's technological void! The perfect date night show full of short form improv games & long form treats, all inspired by the audience. Next Performance - Returning to the stage in 2024... [Created, produced and hosted by Rachelle Lachland] |
PAST SHOWS
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THE IMPROVISED AUSTRALIAN SOAP OPERA
at the 2023 Melbourne Fringe Festival Length - 60 mins Show - The Soap Opera that is is inspired by you, made up in real time before your very eyes... Strewth! For the first two weeks of Melbourne Fringe Festival, The Improv Pit presents its newest full-length show exploring Aussie Soapies. There will be sentimentality; there will be melodrama; the ensemble will play soap opera inspired characters with interweaving stories. Using long-form improvisation plus tropes of Aussie soapies and drama, a full story will be created, joyfully exploring personal relationships, family life, emotional and moral conflicts, and some of the unique quirks of Australiana. Every show is an episode of a serial drama that has never existed before and will never be seen again. The Improvised Australian Soap Opera will run during the Melbourne Fringe Festival from October 4th to 15th at UBQ, 108 Smith St, Collingwood. Follow the show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100095102594927 |
When
15 September 2023, 07:30 PM 16 September 2023, 07:30 PM 23 September 2023, 07:30 PM 23 September 2023, 01:00 PM Where Potato Shed Wadawurrung Country, 41 Peninsula Drive, Drysdale Cost Adult: $33.00 Concession: $28.00 
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EVERY BRILLIANT THING Length - 60 - 75 mins Show - It starts with a list. A list of everything brilliant about the world. A list of everything worth living for - for Mum, who's in the psych ward again. What begins as a child's well-meaning project spans a lifetime of chronicling all of life's many pleasures. With the help of the audience, this one-actor show shares a story about finding hope and meaning in the everyday. “One of the funniest plays you’ll ever see about depression – and possibly one of the funniest plays you’ll ever see, full stop.” The Guardian [Edinburgh Festival, 2014] Every Brilliant Thing will run from September 15-23, 2023 at The Potato Shed Theatre. TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE
Or copy and paste this link to your browser: https://tickets.geelongaustralia.com.au/event/every-brilliant-thing-2023 |
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48 HOUR FILM PROJECT
ATLANTIC CANADA 2022 'It's Just Weather' Short As part of the 2022 48Hr Film Project for the Atlantic Canada region Rachelle had the privilege to work with Producer/Director/Writer and Owner Operator of Studio E Productions, Elizabeth Reeder. Over 48 hours the team (having never met prior to the competition weekend) created and completed the 7 minute Short film 'It's Just Weather'. The required elements for the 2022 competition were: Character Name: Marcel/Marcella Kim (a gardener) Line of Dialogue: "Let Go!" Prop: a Kite The production drew the genre's of Comedy or Climate Change and chose to work with both for their film. 'It's Just Weather' received the following nominations: Best Actress Best Acting Ensemble Best Use of Genre Best Story 'It's Just Weather' won: Audience Award Best Use of Prop |
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THE FICTIONALS COMEDY CO.
Length -
60 - 90 mins
Shows -
The Fictionals Comedy Co. have been entertaining audiences throughout Metro Vancouver and beyond since 2010. Prior to the pandemic and her East Coast move, as part of The Fictionals ensemble (and as a Hot Improv Tuesday show producer) Rachelle performed weekly at Cafe Deux Soleils (Hot Improv Tuesdays) and regularly at The Rio Theatre (Improv Against Humanity) and Yuk Yuk’s Vancouver.
The Fictionals continue to perform their trademark weekly and monthly shows post-pandemic, and continue with their annual performances at conventions and festivals such as Fan Expo Vancouver, Capital City Comic Con, Vancouver Writers Festival, and other live events. Their trademark brand of improv pushes the boundaries of comedy. They have collaborated with burlesque dancers, comic book artists, a Chinese String Orchestra, and even professional wrestlers. They have been named one of Vancouver’s top improv comedy troupes by Georgia Straight and the Westender.
For current shows and information:
https://thefictionals.com/
Length -
60 - 90 mins
Shows -
The Fictionals Comedy Co. have been entertaining audiences throughout Metro Vancouver and beyond since 2010. Prior to the pandemic and her East Coast move, as part of The Fictionals ensemble (and as a Hot Improv Tuesday show producer) Rachelle performed weekly at Cafe Deux Soleils (Hot Improv Tuesdays) and regularly at The Rio Theatre (Improv Against Humanity) and Yuk Yuk’s Vancouver.
The Fictionals continue to perform their trademark weekly and monthly shows post-pandemic, and continue with their annual performances at conventions and festivals such as Fan Expo Vancouver, Capital City Comic Con, Vancouver Writers Festival, and other live events. Their trademark brand of improv pushes the boundaries of comedy. They have collaborated with burlesque dancers, comic book artists, a Chinese String Orchestra, and even professional wrestlers. They have been named one of Vancouver’s top improv comedy troupes by Georgia Straight and the Westender.
For current shows and information:
https://thefictionals.com/
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ROOKIE LEAGUE - VANCOUVER THEATRESPORTS
Length - 90 mins Show - Rookie league was a weekly show hosted by Vancouver Theatresports. A mix of short form and long form, the show ran for several years prior to the pandemic. As part of a Vancouver Theatresports ensemble, Rachelle also performed monthly at Ronald McDonald House in Vancouver. |
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QUEERPROV
Length -
60 - 90 mins
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As an ally and occasional guest improviser, Rachelle participated in many shows including Queerprov's Challenge, Fruit Bowl and Coming Out Stories formats.
Length -
60 - 90 mins
Show -
As an ally and occasional guest improviser, Rachelle participated in many shows including Queerprov's Challenge, Fruit Bowl and Coming Out Stories formats.
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DYCK SPACEE - A SPY-FI IMPROVISED RADIO PLAY
Length - 75 mins Show - Created for the Vancouver Fringe Festival 2018, 'Dyck Spacee - A Spy-Fi Improvised Radio Play' was a sci-fi/film noir radio play performed in front of a live audience. The show had a successful 10-show run at the Fringe, and the cast had several stand alone performances, around Vancouver and the lower mainland after the Fringe, by popular request. [Created, produced and hosted by Rachelle Lachland] |
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THE IMPROVISED TUDOR LIVES
Length - 30 mins Show - Created by Rachelle for Instant Theater's Prototype Festival, 'The Improvised Tudor Lives' is a long form improv format that explores and braids together separate story lines inspired by audience suggestions and Tudor England. Be entertained in the world of 1500's Tudor England as improvisers explore the 16th century, mining history for laughs! Beheading's! Plague! Exploration by sea, Battles on land! History at its most absurd and laugh out loud funny. The Improvised Tudor Lives played for the Prototype Festival with Instant Theatre, and was then mounted by The Quad Comedy Theatre Company. [Created, produced and hosted by Rachelle Lachland] |
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COMPANY'S COMING WITH UNION JACKED
Length - 90 mins Show - A monthly show co-created and co-hosted by the cast of improv troupe Union Jacked, 'Company's Coming' invited fellow friends, musicians and improvisers for a night of games, laughs and silliness. Hosted at The Woods Studio, the show had a kitschy 70's theme and each night ended with a random audience member sent home with a piece of decor they never wanted nor needed. |
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THE QUAD COMEDY THEATRE COMPANY
The Quad Comedy Theatre Company was a grass roots improvisational theatre company with the mission to create shows, train and provide stage time for improv comedy actors in Vancouver, Canada.
As a co-founder of The Quad Comedy Theatre Company, Rachelle and the ensemble would perform guest spots in established shows around Vancouver including in competitive formats hosted by The Fictionals, The Radical and at Instant Theatre.
The Quad Comedy was booked for private events, corporate, conventions and functions and their monthly show at XY on Davie Street featured musical improv, experimental content and short form games.
The Quad Comedy Theatre Company was a grass roots improvisational theatre company with the mission to create shows, train and provide stage time for improv comedy actors in Vancouver, Canada.
As a co-founder of The Quad Comedy Theatre Company, Rachelle and the ensemble would perform guest spots in established shows around Vancouver including in competitive formats hosted by The Fictionals, The Radical and at Instant Theatre.
The Quad Comedy was booked for private events, corporate, conventions and functions and their monthly show at XY on Davie Street featured musical improv, experimental content and short form games.
Loch Land Entertainment would like to acknowledge in gratitude and respect that we live, create and conduct business in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship” which Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) Peoples first signed with the British Crown in 1725. The treaties did not deal with surrender of lands and resources but in fact recognized Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) title and established the rules for what was to be an ongoing relationship between nations.
