DOWN TOWN
Members of the Well Seasoned improv team – Danette Wilkins, Brooke Brown, Bam Alston, Lauren Foster-Lee and Corey Reid – use brief confessions (written anonymously and dropped in a “bucket of truth”) to inspire a laughterchurning set.
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PHOTOG RAPHY B Y J OHN MICHAEL SIMPSON
october/november 2023
n a city known for its world-class research and health care, a group of performance artists opened Mettlesome theater to deliver generous doses of the best medicine – laughter. “I feel like you can’t throw a stone here without hitting someone who gets improv,” says April Dudash, one of Mettlesome’s six stakeholders. “We are in awe of the reception we continue to get from the Durham community – how this place just keeps