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A storytelling show about you—the audience—The Campfireball is created spontaneously out of whatever stories and lives happen to be gathered together inside Story Parlor at that moment in time. There’s nothing to prepare and nothing to fear—participation is never required, and the show is just as much fun to sit back and watch unfold as it is to play along. Come on out for a night of storytelling you will literally never be able to experience again. Never possible to know what’s coming next, each Campfireball slowly begins to reveal surprises, connections, and communitas as the space transforms from a room of strangers to a room of neighbors.
Workshopped and developed over two years in the master's program for storytelling at East Tennessee State University and showcased at the 2023 Asheville Fringe Festival, host/storyteller Cory Howard (National Storytelling Festival, Moth Grand Slam winner) blends intimacy and absurdity in an effort to shepherd the audience through ridiculous yet reverent ways of drawing out their life experiences.
This month’s theme: JOY!
You know the darkness is always lurking around the corner so why not take a little time to celebrate some of the things that have brought us uncomplicated, unbridled, uncut joy?? Joy is different from happiness in that it can occur in spurts whereas happiness can feel like a whole entire way we’re supposed to be, which can, in turn, feel impossible. So this Campfireball aims to create one night of a short burst of joy. Who couldn’t use that??
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Joe Carroll has been an improviser and performer since 2007. He has performed at The Dirty South Improv Festival, NC Comedy Arts Festival, Asheville Yes Fest, The Asheville Fringe Festival and Chicago’s Annoyance Theater. As an instructor at the Misfit Improv & Acting school Carroll has also brought countless students to the stage as performers in their own right. He has also taught improv at the Black Mountain Center for the Arts and as part of the Asheville Improv Collective. A member of the comedy duo “Mabel’s Baby,” Carroll also produces a monthly solo show called “Hotdoggin’ With Joe” at the Lazoom Room.