Troubled Shores
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Troubled Shores, Inc. is a not-for-profit theater organization dedicated to improving the cultural and educational environment of the Cape and Islands through the experience of improvisational theater. Based on Martha's Vineyard, the company was created by the members of the island's premier comedy improv troupe, WIMP, who held their last show after 11 years on July 6, 2005. Troubled Shores, Inc. offers a variety of performance experiences and educational programs under its branch, IMP improv for kids. Some of these programs include:
- Improv classes and performances in local island schools
- After school improv classes for Kindergarten through high school students
- IMP All Things Theater Camp, a summer camp for kids 6-16 years old that teaches all aspects of theater
- The IMPers, a teenage professional improv troupe that performs around the island, and also traveled to Denver, Colorado to work on improv in May of 2005 at the Denver Performing Arts Complex. The IMPers were recently selected as an apprentice team in the 2007 Chicago Improv Festival
