Another great show saw the Honest Liars jammin’ at the factory this time bringing audience members onto the stage!

Seven players took to the stage on Sunday evening to another full house entertaining a mixed-aged audience. Students from the Mount College drama arrived full of enthusiasm and expecting a good night’s entertainment. They weren’t disappointed.

Of course, a load of preparation went into the show hours before the stage lights came on.

The players had arrived and began the task of setting out the chairs. Would there be a full house again? Or would there be lots of vacant chairs with no bums to fill them?

Positivity is always the order of the day when it comes to the Honest Liars, so chairs filled the space and the players were not disappointed.

Then the ‘crew’ arrived, and the signs went up, front desk organised and a crash course with the sound system.

During the tech run-through, it was discovered that the stage could be lit up with coloured lights. It certainly made a difference to the ambience of what was to come. If you look closely at the images further down, you’ll see the wonderful rainbow of colours that, in some cases, enhanced the players’ characters.

Time for a snack, a toilet stop and into the warming up.

That flew by! Next thing the players knew it was SHOWTIME!

The first thing to do is warm up both the audience and players with a game that is a tried and tested winner – World’s Worst.

A new game was up next, which saw Kelly and Fee getting a new inmate into their jail cell. They were not impressed when Kim arrived because (from audience suggestions) she and Donald Trump had stolen all the presents under Santa’s Christmas tree. It was up to the two old prisoners to give the newbie enough clues so she could guess what crime she’d committed. And she did a stellar job!

The Dating Game, another favourite, had a military “G.I. Jane” Kathy as the bachelorette trying to decide who to date – Kevin with a foot fetish, Kelly who had a fear of potatoes or Jon a spy (I’m not Dimitri from Moscow). She decided in the end that fear of potatoes was not going to be as much trouble as a spy or a fanatical foot man.

Drew and Grace from the Mount College Drama volunteered (with some persuading) to join Fee and Kim on stage and quickly got involved with the Change game as they tapped the shoulders of the players, yelling “Change” to change the course of the game. A sinking ship ended with the words called out from the bridge “Up periscope!” to signify the ship had gone down.

Then it was the Pocket Note game, and the audience came up with some pearlers for the notes.

Melissa, Kim and Fee were triplets who had the weird hobby of collecting insects. The title of the game was called out by a switched-on audience member – “Insect City”, and it was voted as being the best one-liner of the whole show.

The highlight of the night though had to go to the very last game ‘Puppets’. This game needed two members from the audience to be the puppet masters and take the puppets, Kathy and Kevin, along a hilarious journey by moving arms, legs, head, hands around.

Nate and Catalina had the players in somewhat awkward positions, but that didn’t stop them from delivering some cracker lines going along the theme of a married couple having an argument. It seemed Kevin brought the foot fetish he had in the Dating game into the mix as he wanted Kathy to try out his ‘dirty feet’. Mind you the puppet master did have trouble getting Kathy’s head at the right angle … was it his feet she was looking at?

As the audience left the show with the laughing still ringing, a few decided to sign up to the Taster Workshop and try their hand at Improv.

All players agree – it’s the best fun a person can have – either in it or watching it.

Thanks to all the players and crew – you were all brilliant:

PLAYERS: Melissa Jon Kim Fee Kelly Kathy Kevin

CREW: who made the whole show glide along Sally Mark Ben

NEXT SHOW:

Save the date:

Sunday 5th April
Jam Factory, Historic Village
Show Starts: 7 p.m.