Yes, the Honest Liars gave a capacity audience a stellar performance in their coronation night show.

It certainly was a right Royal occasion, and the players were in high spirits as the theatre filled up to the brim with an extremely receptive audience.

The lights went down as people settled into their seats with drinks in hand, and then seemingly out of nowhere, in came the ghost of the late Queen. As she’d not been invited to the Coronation, nor did she think there was anything decent on telly (her words), she’d accepted the call to emcee the improv show. And it didn’t take long for the audience to get their laughing mojos well and truly in place. Click the video:

 

‘Categories’ warmed up the players as they battled to win the top spot for the most knowledge on chocolates and viruses. No surprise that the Dr amongst the players won the virus battle.

The first, and always popular, game of ‘Pocket Note’ started the show off with triplets out on a school trip to Buckingham Palace. These three kids had to work into the scene sentences like “He likes it when you stroke his ears”, “The summer of my discontent”, and “Candle in the wind”, along with several others. But when Ryan told his brothers that there was an inscription on the back of the throne which read (picking up a note) “the view’s no good from here”, the audience erupted when Ian quipped “, must have been looking at Camilla”. The boys managed to return to the bus and head home after an eventful tour.

Another firm favourite, ‘Sign Language Interpreter’, saw Kevin interviewing Dr Rowin Spit (aka Ian), an expert in teaching aardvarks to walk on tightropes. Can you imagine how hard that would be? But Dr Spit was so worried that the aardvarks were getting run over crossing roads that he devised a plan to string rope from trees to straddle the roads, making it safer for them to cross.

However, they all came to an unfortunate end when giraffes ran into the ropes, sending the aardvarks flying and killing themselves in the process.

Kelly had no difficulty signing the whole story, much to the delight of the audience.

After a round of ‘The Dating Game’, which saw Ian (the bachelor) deciding that Sally, a barber pole dancer was better than either Popeye or the dentist pulling out hearts, it was time for ‘Foreign Film Dub’. This played out as an action, kung-foo porn-style movie from China. Needless to say, it went in directions no one saw coming.

‘Press Conference’ saw Jon and Steve facing the press gallery with questions about the photocopying of their buttocks and sending them out to all IRD registered taxpayers.

Next are a couple of shorts taken from the games ‘The Oracle’ (explained in the last blog post HERE) and ‘My Movie’, which saw the Queen direct the players into making a movie changing the genres from horror, western, 70’s porn and Disney:

 

 

After another couple of games, the show ended with ‘Themed Restaurant’. This time it was a birthing centre restaurant. The staff brought a variety of dishes to the table. None were edible and had the diners completely baffled. This time you can watch the entire game!!!

 

The Honest Liars were delighted with the amount of laughter they had gotten from the audience, and both players and patrons left in high spirits.

The Coronation night over the King may have had a bigger audience, but the Queen stole the show.

Thanks to players

Jon Sally Steve

Ian Kevin Ryan

Emcee: The Queen, AKA Kathy

Thanks to..

Crew: Fee
Sound engineer: Kelly

Book your tickets for the next show and join the players for loads of laughs.

1^st Saturday of every month.
16th Ave Theatre.
16th Avenue, Tauranga.
Show Starts: 7.30 p.m.
Licenced bar available.