Improv Student Thrilled Instructor Said “Hey” to Her Outside Class

When Vanessa Hapkins decided to grab a last minute night out in Kensington Market, she definitely didn’t expect to get into a bar, let alone see her longform instructor Eve H. Martin.
 
“The line was long, just like, uh, at the DMV,”said Hapkins, who proceeded into a six-minute solo scene as a DMV employee named “Grunf”. “But then, like, I saw Eve in the crowd,” remembered a-now-out-of-character Vanessa. “She had just finished ordering a whiskey sour. That’s also my favourite drink!”

She admits today had only been the second workshop she’d taken with the veteran improviser, but that she had been a fan for “years”, stretching all the way back to Eve’s first group “Ultra Mega Super Party Club”.

So was going up and high-fiving her nerve-wracking? “Oh, a hundred percent. For her to say “hey” was huge,” yes-anded Hapkins.

Eve and her boyfriend were reportedly trying to find a quiet place to hang out, and happened upon the establishment (seated capacity, 6) while walking around.

The bar, a former basement apartment, was recently praised in a local paper for “being real”. It was started after the owner and former tenant noticed a lack of character in the Toronto neighbourhood.
 
Vanessa grabbed the opportunity to join them on the vintage loveseat, and asked if Martin could think of any additional feedback on the “office scene” Hapkins was in only two hours earlier.

Eve reportedly couldn’t think of anything, which Vanessa took as a great sign, and excused herself. “And, I mean, it’s exciting,” added the UWO grad. “Only the second class and we hung out for drinks!”
 
(Update, August 12th, 2016: The bar would later close down due to a lack of liquor license, functioning bathrooms, and Ontario business number, and not the health and fire code violations previously reported.)