SoCap Comedy

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See what's on at SoCap Comedy on the Danforth. Browse Toronto comedy shows, beginner-friendly improv drop-ins, and multi-week courses. | Our story An old art, played out in a new room on the Danforth. Improv didn’t start with us, and it didn’t start in a comedy club. It started with kids playing games at a Chicago settlement house almost a century ago. SoCap is one of the rooms where that tradition keeps going — two floors above the Danforth, most nights of the week. Where it came from The philosophy: everyone can play. In 1920s Chicago, a recreation worker named Viola Spolin learned a simple idea from her mentor Neva Boyd at Hull House: kids learn best, and most freely, through play. Spolin spent decades turning that idea into a set of “theater games” — exercises that quiet the self-conscious, judging part of the brain and l

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