Canada’s biggest high school improv tournament is happening this week at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. It’s known as the Canadian Improv Games (CIG for short) and this year marks the 42nd season of the theatre festival.
They had to be silly, serious — even slimy — and in the end, their creativity paid off.
A team of six teenagers — including four actors and two musicians — from Gulf Islands Secondary School (GISS) on Salt Spring Island, B.C., were crowned the big winners at the Canadian Improv Games in Ottawa on April 4.
The improvisational troupe Hello City is named after a song about how Halifax sucks. “The same people, the same drinks and the same music, the same quicksand / I think this harbour town is waist-deep and sinkin’ fast,” goes the first verse, taking a pause before rolling into the first line of the chorus: “Hello city, you’ve found an enemy in me.”
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