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- How long have you worked with The Spontaneity Shop?
- 2 years
- Why do you love improvising?
- Because when it's good, it feels a bit like flying. Similarly when it's bad, it feels a bit like crashing to the ground and splintering into tiny pieces and waking up the next morning covered in bruises. But when it's good.... yes flying is a good thing.
- What's your favourite improv memory?
- Being on stage on my own and doing a two person scene where I played both characters. I would happily have gone on all night and half way into the next day if I could.
- You're also an actor. Any favourite acting memories?
- I was in a farce, 'Don't Dress for Dinner', in Germany a few years ago - I had a favourite line which I looked forward to every night as it always got a huge laugh - the line was, "She's got the flu." See how funny that is.
- You mainly improvise with another group. Who are they and how did they start?
- They are, we are, The Undersigned. They are, we are, I am Sonya Vine, they are Catherine Semark, Abigail Hanson, Natalie Richer, Nathalie Jacoby.
- You're also a well-known artist. What's that like?
- Well, it's a bit like flying.....
- Where can we see your work?
- www.sonyavine.com
- What is your maxim for life?
- Try and earn a living from being creative. If that doesn't work, take up flying lessons.
- How many degrees of separation are you from Kevin Bacon?
- One - I am married to him. (This is a lie)
- Anything else we should know about you?
- I get upset about the misuse of apostrophes in life. And I love lindy hop dancing.
- Would you rather accept an Oscar or wield a light saber?
- Oscar is almost an anagram of saber, so I think that's a trick question.
