LEAVE IT TO CLEAVAGE is an improvised comedy show hosted by two perky 50s housewives (full of martinis and Valium) who aim to put the ‘good’ back in the ‘good old days.’
Audience participation is the main ingredient in this delicious comedy cocktail. The gals get to know the audience by going table-to-table giving out their ‘Welcome Wagon’ treats.
Suggestions from the audience help them re-write their 'Helpful Housewife Tips.' The gals re-create a 'Day in the Life' of a woman in the audience who has both a family and (CLUTCH PEARLS) a job!
The gals also host a game show about relationships that asks the age-old question:
Who is happier? Married or single people?
Four single and four married 'volunteers' come on stage and become opposing teams. Each round, one person from each team answers a multiple-choice, skill-testing question about relationships by popping a paper bag filled with their own hot air. Whoever gets the right answer wins points for their team.
Whoever loses, goes for 'RELATIONSHIP RE-TRAINING' - participating in an improvised scene with the gals. Miraculously, the game always ends in a tie and everyone goes home a winner with incredibly lame prizes.
NO TWO SHOWS ARE EVER THE SAME
AND THE AUDIENCE COMES BACK AGAIN AND AGAIN!
LEAVE IT TO CLEAVAGE is the partly-scripted, partly-improvised comedy show originally conceived by award-winning comedians DIANA FRANCES & ELLIE HARVIE.
Inspired by a bonkers article they found in a 1950's edition of Good Housekeeping Magazine called, 'The Rules of Being a Good Housewife,' their feminist rage quickly recognized that these 'tips' needed a good solid roasting for 45 minutes, with a salty pinch of audience participation.
Premiering at the Burnaby Shadbolt Centre's 'Outrageous Women's Cabaret,' the show was an instant hit.
Additional cast members were added, the show expanded into two acts and toured around Canada.
LEAVE IT TO CLEAVAGE was nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award for 'Best Improv Group.'
DIANA FRANCES
PERFORMER & PRODUCER
Diana is a Canadian Screen Award winning writer for her work on ‘Corner Gas: Animated’, for which she was also nominated for a Writer’s Guild of Canada Award.
As an improviser, Diana has been nominated for 8 Canadian Comedy Awards and has entertained our Canadian soldiers in Bosnia, Egypt, Israel and Afghanistan.
Diana has toured the world with Second City Theatricals, Girls Nite Out, Rock Paper Scissors and she is an alumni of The Vancouver TheatreSports League.
Diana is a really good parallel parker.
CHRISTINE LIPPA
PERFORMER
Christine is an actor, stand up, improvisor and writer with over 30 years experience.
She has performed stand up comedy and improv in concert halls and dive bars across Canada, including Montreal’s Just For Laughs.
This summer Lippa put on a toque and parka during the heat dome to play the “Canadian Sounding Mayor” on Ana Gasteyer and Rachel Dratch’s feature, A Clusterfünke Christmas.”
Christine currently has 3 dead budgies in her freezer.
KAREN PARKER
PERFORMER
Karen is a Canadian Comedy Award winning actor and an alumna of the Second City Toronto MainStage.
Karen has performed with theatre companies across Canada including the recent run of ‘She The People’ with Mirvish Productions.
She tours with her comedy troupes The Lusty Mannequins and Girls Night Out. She can be seen in the TV shows ’What We Do In The Shadows,’ ‘Tallboyz,’ ‘Mrs. America,’ ‘Baroness Von Sketch Show’ and more.
Karen really loves her cat, Steven.