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metropolisnewsTriplette Finds Humor in Everyday LifeArlington Heights Post By Robert Loerzel | Contributor Thursday, February 1, 2007 The women in Chicago sketch-comedy group Triplette prefer to emphasize the fact that they're funny over the fact that they're female. "We have so many fans who are men, and so many people who come to see us because they think we're good comedians," said Laura Grey. "That's comedian," she emphasized, "not comedienne." For the next six Saturdays, Triplette will perform a collection of sketches called "If it Bleeds, It Leads" at the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in Arlington Heights, part of the venue's "After Dark" comedy series. Another Chicago sketch group, Money in the Pants, will open the shows. The members of Triplette -- Grey, Rebecca Fox and Heather Simms -- live together in Ravenswood, and all three of them went to Northwestern University in Evanston, where they first began performing together. As an extracurricular activity outside of their acting and writing classes, the three women and another six students formed the improv comedy troupe Titanic Players. "The group had great chemistry," Grey said. But the other Titanic Players all moved away when they finished up with finals senior year, leaving behind Grey, Fox and Simms, who decided to stay and carry on as a trio. Rolling with the punch lines Switching from a co-ed comedy group to an all-female troupe didn't require all that much an adjustment, Simms said. "What was a bigger change was going from a nine-person group to a three-person group," she said. Each woman had to perform more roles and take a bigger part in each sketch. "It forced us to be more quick-thinking," Simms said. Outside of Triplette, these three have acted in many plays, doing everything from mime and puppetry to Chekhov. Triplette's roots are in improv comedy, but the troupe now performs scripted sketches. "We're proud of what we write," Simms said. "Improv is so fleeting." The group's Web site, www.triplette.net, features videos of popular Triplette sketches including "Skinhead Laundry Day" and "Equal Opportunity Ghosts." The title "If It Bleeds, It Leads" refers to the media's tendency to play up sensational news stories. Triplette used the title for a previous revue, but the show coming to Metropolis will feature new sketches. The troupe tested the material at the recent Chicago Sketchfest, as well as the SF Sketchfest in San Francisco. "We're trying it out," Grey said. "There are going to be risks." The show includes Triplette's satires of those free samples offered at grocery stores and e-mail miscommunication in an office. And then there's a series of sketches portraying the same scene -- a woman shopping for lingerie -- from various points of view. It's patterned after the famous Japanese film "Rashomon." "Make sure to say that we are the sketch-comedy equivalent of Akira Kurosawa," Grey said. TRIPLETTE IN 'IF IT BLEEDS, IT LEADS' 10 p.m. Saturdays Feb. 3 through March 10 at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, 111 W. Campbell St., Arlington Heights. $15 Those 17 and under must be accompanied by a guardian over 18; no one 13 or under will be admitted. Tickets can be purchased online or at our box office at 847 577-2121 |
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