Thursday Night Comedy – Sex, Lies & Improvise
Sex, Lies & Improvise
Thursday Night Comedy at The Drake
29 July – 19 August 8pm
Adults $20 + BF
Concession $18 + BF
Tickets available from www.eventfinder.co.nz
SEXY LIES – a big hit with Aucklanders
ConArtists has a hit on its hands. Three years ago they launched “Sex, Lies and Improvise”, a new show format for the International Comedy Festival, to display their expert comedy acting skills. It was instantly a huge hit and this month it returns to ConArtists home base, The Drake, in the Victoria Park area for its fourth short season as a teaser for the longer, Comedy Gladiators – Laugh To The Death” season which follows on directly.
SLI is an adult show appealing to audiences because despite adult content based on audiences True stories and imaginative suggestions it’s done in a safe and anonymous way. This from some of previous promotion for the show:
“If you’re keen to be titillated and don’t mind more risqué subject matter, you’ll have a ball. “Whose Line is it Anyway” meets an uncensored “Carry-On” film. Theatreview
From unbridled lust to blind dates and all the other sexy games people play, ConArtists are getting sticky with it. And, although the stories are from the audience, ConArtists are offering protection. The audience fill out their story suggestions BEFORE the show and all are kept faceless – like some people’s sex lives.
The ConArtists company has new faces alongside the quick witted and wicked senior members of one of the longest and most experienced group of entertainers in New Zealand.
Cast includes: Penny Ashton, Geoffrey Dolan, Lori Dungey, Aaron Ward, Allan Roberts, Lindsay Brown, Moody Hikmet, Greg Cooper, Nigel Burrows, Robert Mignault, Simon Cameron, Stayci Taylor, TM Bishop, Chris Neels, Eli Mathewson, Clare Kelso (plus five brand newly graduated actors to the ConArtists company in July)
SLI tells stories of hook ups, break ups, bust ups and much more. Last year the, sold out to bursting houses, show saw audience members happily suppling many interesting and surprising personal stories of love and lust. There’s good old fashioned formats as well. See actors desperately trying to work out, in a morning-after scenario, what famous person they slept with last night. What excuse will they have offered to slip away and the cocktail that contributed to the tryst and the hangover?
“There’s a fine line between offensive smut and witty smut” says Clare Kelso, senior member and Creative Director of ConArtists “and I think we walk the tightrope well with the occasional crashing fall”.