Heroine Addiction

Heroine Addiction performed an improvisational comedy show Wednesday evening as apart of SMU’s 46th Annual Women’s Symposium. The theme this year for the Women’s Symposium was “Happiness is…”, which encouraged people to finish the sentence in the blank with their idea of happiness.

Heroine Addiction consists of four girls: Jenny Clifton, Christa Haberstock, Lynsey Hale and Dawn Douglass. The girls met at Ad Libs, one of Dallas’ popular improvisation clubs.

The group sent the crowd into roars of laughter as they jokingly filled in the blanks of “happiness is…” to them.

These four women’s act consisted of playing interactive improv games on stage, beginning with the Bell Ringer. In this game, one person is assigned to hold the bell while others act out a scene. Every time the bell ringer rings the bell, the players have to change the last line that was just said.

Heroine Addiction had the entire crowd rolling with laughter as they acted out the simple task of fishing.

Heroine Addiction also played games that brought in the audience. Mr. Know-It-All is an improv game where the people on stage act as one person and they speak as if they have one mind. To do this, the players speak one word at a time to respond to the audience questions.

The group chose a member of the audience to join the collective mind of Mr. Know-It-All.

Sophomore Bekah Boyer went on stage and answered the audiences’ questions.

“Normally I would call the experience nerve-racking, but I was having so much fun that all I could do was laugh,” Boyer said.

The cast ended the show with a game called Party Quirks. One person from the group, in this case Clifton, left the room while the other three were given weird quirks or personalities chosen by the audience.

Haberstock was Harry Potter, Hale was a porcupine, and Douglass had a zombie fetish. Clifton then came back into the room and threw a party for her three guests during which she had to guess their quirks. She sent the entire audience into hysterics.

The crowd left Hughes-Trigg theater and immediately started buying Heroine Addiction’s book, “Recipes for a Funner Life: Cooking with Improv to Improve Communication, Confidence & Get More Happy.”