I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter Chicken! The Fellowship of the Butter Chicken! (theatre/improv)

It is rare that I get to showcase improvisational theatre (improv) and two events in a row is even more surprising. But I was informed about the production of I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter Chicken!: The Fellowship of the Butter Chicken! and wanted to highlight it on my blog. We definitely have some great theatre talent in our fair city.

The Butter Chicken gang is back in I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter Chicken!: The Fellowship of the Butter Chicken!, an all-new live sketch comedy show where the laughs are served with a pinch of ethnic and a generous dollop of Bollywood spice. Join Vancouver’s South Asian comedy heroes in their quest to make audiences laugh, cheer, tap their feet, applaud wildly, and laugh some more.

Presented by South Asian Arts and Bollywood Shenanigans, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter Chicken!: The Fellowship of the Butter Chicken! dishes up a fresh spin on the laugh-till-you-cry, edgy, racy, fast-paced, yummy comedy that previously satisfied the palates of thousands of theatre-goers in I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter Chicken!—The Best Of Show, The Butter Chicken Reloaded, and The Butter Chicken’s Back… Alright.

The venue is CBC’s Studio 700, and the players—the fellowship of comedy heroes—are Kulveer Taggar, Aga Postawska, Munish Sharma, Leena Manro, Sandhya Sharma, and Kallol Mitra. Race, sex, diaspora, parental expectations, village life: no topic is out of bounds for these comedy crusaders as they act, sing, dance, and Bollywood their brains out in brand-new skits penned by the Bollywood Shenanigans crew.

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter Chicken!: The Fellowship of the Butter Chicken! runs for four days—a total of six shows—from May 9 to 12, with late night shows on May 11 and 12. Tickets are $20 in advance (plus service charges) and can be purchased at Main Video (6621 Main Street in Vancouver), Kamal’s Video Palace (8268 Scott Road in Surrey), or online at http://www.eventbrite.ca. For more information, visit South Asian Arts or Bollywood Shenanigans.

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

South Asian Arts aims to balance the lives of adults and children and develop their individuality through the arts. We are committed to creating performance and educational opportunities for professional & amateur artists and build artistic forums that act as a platform for building knowledge of South Asian culture via new projects, new ideas, and new collaborations.

Bollywood Shenanigans was created by Munish Sharma and Leena Manro with a mission to inspire the world and raise social consciousness through comedy, satire, bollywood song and dance. Bollywood Shenanigans brings together a talented collective of actors, dancers and writers who have appeared in film, television, commercials and other stage shows, with the goal to entertain audiences and to facilitate discussion on South Asian topics with respect to intercultural and cross cultural issues.