What do ya get when ya take one Chicago improviser, one Southern playwright and composer, one classically trained Shakespearean thespian / MIT computer drone, two hot theater chicks turned public health crusaders, and two burned-out New York film dudes, lock them in a poorly ventilated dance studio in Somerville Massachusetts for 2 years and force them to be creative? Awwww, you know the answer...
It's ABNERIA, a bold experiment in sketch comedy television where seven writer/performers attempt to create an original, high-quality comedy program completely on their own; with no outside director, producer, technical crew, or even that most crucial of all comedy ingredients: an audience.
Can sketch comedy be created in a vacuum? Throughout the year 2000, ABNERIA wrestled with this question, haunting the late night public access airwaves of the Boston area with its unique blend of "funny-Ha-Ha" and "funny-strange."
So check out one of there DVDs or Videos and prepare to be entertained by the meticulously crafted randomness that is ABNERIA, where production values were cheap and laughs were expensive.
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