This highly experimental workshop introduces performers to the theater of the absurd, a style popularized by playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, and Tom Stoppard. This workshop questions conventional improv wisdom and challenges performers to abandon their most relied-upon tools and techniques. The goal of this workshop is to create unique theater pieces that expand the meaning of improv and to dive into the weirdness that this wonderful art form enables!

Peter Cunis is a house team member and teacher at the Providence Improv Guild in Rhode Island. He studied theater in college and improv at Improv Boston and the Magnet Theater. He has developed and taught workshops on solo improv, Samuel Beckett-inspired improv, and dramatic improv. He has been performing solo improv across Rhode Island as Peter the Lonesome Boy since 2019.