#pasta tree

...They asked for a volunteer from the crowd to interview and ended up speaking with a visiting sportswriter from Chicago. Through this interview, the performers and the audience learned about Chris’s job, his hobbies and about a recent date he went on at the Pasta Tree on Farwell. These nuggets of information were then incorporated as the inspiration to a forty-five minute improvised set.

The highlight of this first set was an extended riff that the quartet did revolving around the existence of an actual pasta tree. What began as a pair of people eating from a tree that grew pasta (including meatballs) led to an epic biblical parody. The red sea of Marinara was parted and the Pasta Tree informed a Noah-like figure to build a giant pasta bowl and fill it with two of each kind of pasta. This all led to a scene set in modern day as a couple struggled with their wedding planning since one person was an atheist and their partner grew up as a traditional Pasta Tree believer...