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Even a Forgotten Theatre Key Doesn’t Stop the Honest Liars.

By hlimprovers | November 28, 2024 | Comments 0 Comment

The evening started with a small panic over the forgotten theatre key.

Phone calls and a quick dash to meet halfway soon got the theatre key back in safe hands, and the doors were opened. The players quickly got the chairs out, signage up, and then onto the stage for a good warm-up and run-through of the games.

Once the audience had settled in with their drinks and expectations of a good night, the players ran out and onto the stage to loud applause.

After the first game of Objections, it was on to the ‘Change’ game. Ryan and Kathy stood in line to get on the roller coaster. The conversation kept going off in different directions because as Jon dinged the bell, the line they last spoke had to be changed.

‘Pocket Note’ saw Jon, Kelly, and Sally breaking out of a Youth Hostel. The scene was set as the two girls puffed away on a not-so-decent bit of weed. But they decided they had to break out because the food was only baked beans. At that point, Jon entered as the warden. As the story progressed, it revealed that both girls were backpackers who thought they were in a normal hostel and couldn’t understand why they couldn’t leave.

Another popular game, the ‘Returns Desk,’ had three players returning items they had no idea about. Operating the desk, Jon was responsible for giving clues, which he did very well. Ian’s Santa costume was green, so Jon started off with an Irish accent, saying, “Welcome to Paddy’s Festive Store. How can I help you?”

Next, Sally had a custard square made of mustard that she wanted to return, and finally, Brett pulled in the Grand Canyon to return as it was full of Skittles. The audience loved this game as it was through their suggestions that the crazy items were created.

To see an example of this game, go to our YouTube. In this clip, the item being brought back to the returns desk is an electric bus with a flat tyre.

Once again, Kelly made the audience laugh in the game ‘Sign Language Interpreter’ as she visually tried to interpret the conversation between Ian and Brett. Ian, the host, Mike Hunt, was interviewing Brett, Dr Dick Lively, who was creating an octopi Olympics.

Take a look at a wee snippet of this fun game.

At the end of intermission, David, the trusted barman, got onto the stage to pose a question to the audience: “Would you like to be in a box?” and with that, he expanded on the many reasons why you would even be in a box. Very entertaining.

With all the Honest Liars present, the stage became filled with innuendos as the game ‘Sex With Me’ had the players stepping forward and declaring why sex with me is like brushing my teeth – yoga – and driving to work. For example: “Sex with me is like driving to work, it takes me forever to get there.”

The ‘Complaints Letter’ game had Ryan and Kathy writing to the Tauranga City Council to complain about the Lime Scooters. As the letter is written one word at a time, it can go off in all directi

ons, as you’ll see in the video below.

The last game of the evening was ‘Puppets’. Two wonderful people from the audience, Andrea and Kim, came up for this and quickly learnt how to be the puppet masters of Kelly and Brett. The theme of the story was James Bond being chased by a baddie down a mountain. It didn’t take too long before James Bond was nabbed, but he quickly got away, and the pair skied down the mountain.

All too soon, the show was over. The audience went home, the Honest Liars unwound with a drink from the bar, and then it was lights out for the penultimate show of 2024.

Thanks to players

Brett
Ian
Jon – MC
Kelly

Kathy
Sally
Ryan

Thanks to
Admin: Fee
Sound engineer: Anthony.

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.

A Raucous Night for the Honest Liars.

By hlimprovers | August 5, 2024

Another crisp evening as the players made their way to the 16th Ave theatre.

It proved to be another raucous night for the Honest Liars starting from the moment they arrived. After setting up the chairs and warming the room, the players jumped onto the stage for warm-up time. And so the fun began.

They took their laughter into the next room as the audience started to arrive. Getting their drinks as soon as the bar opened and finding their seats, it wasn’t long before there was hardly a spare seat in the house. The lights dimmed, the music was up, and Jon (MC) came out to applause to start the show.

The first game was Sex With Me—always a good start. Of course, the Olympics was suggested, and some of the statements were definitely outrageous enough to win medals.

‘Pocket Note’ saw Sally, Jon, and Mark at an amusement park, with Mark most upset that his lowly cleaning position meant he had to deal with a “code brown” and a defending mother. His boss, Jon, arrived to save the day, but with the usual twists and turns that only happen in improv, the offending poo was finally removed, and the mother ran off with the boss.

Another audience favourite, ‘The Returns Desk’, had Gala, Steve and Ryan returning items they had no clue about. The only clues came from Jon, who was manning the desk. For example, as Steve walked into the store to return a vibrator that didn’t vibrate, Jon immediately said, “Any Erotic Experiences! How can I help you?” That had to give Steve an idea where he was, but his first line, “This ruined my child’s birthday party!” had the audience erupt with laughter.

The other two items being returned were an armchair that vibrated when it shouldn’t and an aeroplane on fire.

Speaking of aeroplanes on fire, in the ‘The Change’ game, Sue and Sally were two pilots with a burning aircraft. The MC constantly made them change their lines, so with parachutes on and off, doors open and shut, and cabin crew that went from being sexy to ugly, it was a game of twists. Finally, one pilot phoned (yes, phoned, not radioed) for help and ended up ordering pizza instead.

After a short intermission, giving people time to order more libations, the ‘Objections’ game brought the audience back to laughing and fired up the players again. Discussing mortgage interest rates proved a great topic, but in the end, it turned into a chaotic mess of everyone shouting “Objection!!”

‘Complaints Letter’ followed – check it out on our YouTube

This next game had two brave members from the audience come up on stage to participate in the ‘Puppets’ game. They had the task of putting the players into different poses by which they could control the story. This time, the scene was a police chase through a shopping mall. However, the actors were in for a great surprise as the positions became more bizarre. Everyone was laughing so much that the actual storyline got utterly lost. See for yourself:

The show wrapped up, and the audience filed out, laughter still ringing in their ears. The players were treated to a well-deserved drink before finally heading home to sweet dreams of fun stories.

Thanks to players

Jon
Ryan
Mark
Sally

Sue
Steve
Gala
MC – Jon & Ryan

Thanks to
Crew: Fee
Sound engineer: Anthony.

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.

May The Fourth Be With You.

By hlimprovers | May 11, 2024

A Star Wars theme, and although there weren’t many references made other than right at the show’s start, Kathy (Emcee) began with “May the Fourth Be With You!”.

That’s right. The nod to the famous show was sprinkled around the games during the night, beginning when the players arrived and started chatting and continuing with the warm-up games. All players were on fire and looking forward to another packed house with loads of belly laughs.

The Honest Liars ran onto the stage, and the show proper began. The warm-up game was ‘Sex with me is like’, and behold, someone actually shouted out the suggestion of Star Wars! And so there were all sorts of ideas:

“Sex with me is like Star Wars – long and blue”.

“Sex with me is like Star Wars – an old guy breathing heavily”.

“Sex with me is like Star Wars – too long and I get bored”.

But the clincher was:

“Sex with me is like Star Wars – Hans Solo appears a lot”.

With both the plays and the audience warmed up, it was time to get into the games and a crowd favourite – ‘Pocket Note’. The scene was set in a Death Star space station’s canteen – enough said! Watch a wee snippet from the game.

View the entire game on our YouTube channel: Honest Liars.

The next game was ‘The Returns Desk.’ Three players left the room while the audience gave ideas for what they could be returning and what was wrong with the item.

It turned out that Sue had a glass shoelace, Sally returned a pasta machine because it opened a portal into a gluten-free world, and finally, Ryan’s large object was a Pak’ n Sav with Zombie staff. Needless to say, Ryan had difficulty bringing his object to the desk but guessed quite quickly, especially after Jon suggested the staff would like the meat week.

Sue had tried to put cheese into her item, thinking it could have been a trap, which got her up onto the chair. It took her a while to get that her object was a glass shoelace, but she did in the end.

In the second half of the show, the warm-up game was called ‘Objections’. This game was about people who don’t turn their car lights on. There were plenty of arguments, including “smashed headlights” and “police officers eat doughnuts,” until it ended in a chaotic mess as the players vied to get their objections heard.

A new game was introduced, and Jon sat at a typewriter tapping out his novel—the title of which had come from the audience—an erotic novel called “You, Me and Everybody.”

The story began with a shepherdess from Austria, and by the time it had finished, there were sheep, strudel, a large spoon and a collection of sugar vases.

A few more games followed, and then the finale of ‘Themed Restaurant’, the theme of which was Dracula. A lot of blood and bats were served. Two members of the audience were brave enough to dine in this restaurant and be part of the plot, even sucking the blood of one poor man and exposing their necks!

It was the end of another great, full house show, and after a bit of a wind-down in the bar, the players wandered home with May the Fourth Be With You ringing in their heads.
Thanks to players

Brett
Kelly
Jon
Sally

Ryan
Sue
Kathy – MC

Thanks to
Crew: Fee
Sound engineer: Anthony.

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.

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Even a Forgotten Theatre Key Doesn’t Stop the Honest Liars.

By hlimprovers | November 28, 2024 | Comments 0 Comment

The evening started with a small panic over the forgotten theatre key.

A Raucous Night for the Honest Liars.

By hlimprovers | August 5, 2024

Another crisp evening as the players made their way to the 16th Ave theatre.

May The Fourth Be With You.

By hlimprovers | May 11, 2024

A Star Wars theme, and although there weren’t many references made other than right at the show’s start, Kathy (Emcee) began with “May the Fourth Be With You!”.