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aspects to it, the company is still completely focused on creating and performing their own shows as well. Their shows always fea- ture fresh content. Several times a year, the actors will get together to come up with new material for the shows, which might involve relevant television shows, things in the news, or popular commercials. “We think the biggest thing about Riddlesbrood is our eclec- tic, unusual, and frankly weird nature,” said Long. “We’re very 2019 FALL PREVIEW different because a lot of theatre companies focus on the story, but we focus far more on the audi- ence. The audience is the adven- turer in all of our shows. Before the show, actors are in the back on their cell phones looking for jokes based on someone they see in the audience. The shows are highly improvisational. If you saw one of our shows and come the next night, you’d notice a huge differ- ence. The audience is different so the show is different.” w INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 50