24.May.2013 WITNESS SCIENCE LIVE!!

AUTHENTICITY
JULY 6TH AT 8PM
SALVAGE VANGUARD THEATER (2803 Manor Rd.)

“Happiness is a Choice” are performance scientists who use improvisation and meta-theater to learn about each other and the moments that they share on stage. We try so hard to be sincere in our theatrical experiments, but have found that excessive self-reflexivity tends to actually diminish authenticity.

Experiment #20, “A Psychedelic Odyssey on the Question of Authenticity,” will explore this unfortunate side effect through story, sketch, improv, audio, and liberal use of the scientific method.

hear a taste
click the blue, you!

watch a radio play:

18.Dec.2011 19 was Mamet

…and got real personal.

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31.Aug.2011 18 was Memorable

MEMORY IN FIVE ACTS
AUGUST 31ST AT 9PM
COLDTOWNE THEATRE (4803 Airport Blvd)

07.Aug.2011 17 b/w 2 states

we conducted an experiment with jon, without jon
here is that same experiment, with jon

see it:

loss and gain

14.Apr.2011 16 was presentational

What Does Science Know?

(Scientific Methodologies and The Great Debate)

11.Nov.2010 15 happened b/w 2 states

Happiness is a Choice at a Distance

In this half hour we intended to test the following hypothesis: The farther away people are from Paul, the harder it is for him to tell them how depressed he is.

audiovisual observations coming soon

Thursday, November 11th
hideout theatre
distance

06.Oct.2010 14 was 41 minutes long

(coincidence)

HOW LONG CAN YOU LISTEN??

zombie jefferson

07.Sep.2010 13 was cursed

. . . and requires more analysis. or maybe less. it was after midnight–at the very end of a mini improv marathon–and we let a heckler get up on the stage and teach us the basics of improv.

26.Aug.2010 SEFE-12

#12 got taped.

Some Emails From Experiment 12:
Gentile Men,

I got two things on the roster here. One is about scheduley stuff, the other is further data on The Process (by which Happiness is a Choice discovers what Happiness is a Choice is).

Scheduley stuff: Even though I have insisted time and again that Happiness is playing late Thursday night/early Friday morning for Out of Bounds, that is not the case at all.

The truth is, Happiness is playing early Saturday morning at 1:30am, more commonly known as LATE FRIDAY NIGHT. Can we all like hang out a couple hours like at 11:30?

In Process news, Paul and I did an experiment on Thursday, and I wanna talk to you guys about it. I’ll make it brief, just getting out the main points, but I hope ya read this, because I think it’s very important in our efforts towards figuring out what we are and what works.

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The Ring Culture of Nanah’d

by Jon Clinkenbeard
Proof is a strange concept. Evidence can be lost. The senses can be deceiving and unreliable, even among groups of dissimilar individuals, each witnessing the same event. Ultimately, proof is individualistic. It requires nothing of the individual who experiences it, and provides nothing in return.

Aside from hypothetical conjecture, every human has experienced an intimate knowledge of something that is very real for them, that they in turn are being challenged to explain to others, to convince them or convert them, of that something’s reality. Why is this important? Because I intend to relay my own personal experience- something very real for me, because it occurred to me. But, I will begin at the beginning, before I entered the picture.

There once was a key that opened a box. This key and this box may still currently exist, but if so, they are lost so far as tangible proof is concerned. I am of the opinion that they must have at least existed at one point in time, because of the story and it’s relation to my experience. The story involves a ring. I saw the ring. Therefore, I believe in the ring. Subsequently, I also now believe in the story of the ring.

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