Two weeks ago CIC hosted one of the Chicago Improv Festival stages. TimeOut Chicago stopped by on Friday night and had this to say:
Fart City, who played Friday night at Chemically Imbalanced, also did a fine job creating artful, rapid-fire scenes that included an ambiguous picnic and a musical about trigonometry among others. I did feel like several of the players dominated but I was impressed enough to want to see them again. They opened for Toronto’s 2-Man No-Show, one of my favorite groups to perform at the Fest. Ken Hall and Isaac Kessler ran around the tiny stage at Chemically Imbalanced creating madcap scenes that included imagining composer Phillip Glass as a boxer and Ronald McDonald as a murderer. Their acting was physical and first-class, their object work immense and their plot lines outrageous. My favorite moment was the opening scene between a highway patrol officer with a glass eye and snarky guy he pulls over. It was great improv.