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”.

“They make improv look so easy you’ll think you could get up and give it a go..” Theatreview

After last year’s sell-out, Austen Found, ConArtists is back for a bloody good time to get your pulses racing. Drawing on a rich vein of myths, legends and Twilight rip-offs, these pallid improvisers will sing, dance and mug their undead Vampire hearts out for your living pleasure. They’ll suck, BUT it’ll be O Positive for Awesome.

Whether you’re Team Jacob, Team Edward or batting for the other team, you’re guaranteed a laugh as we illustrate that Vampires….they’re so hot right now.

Penny Ashton is a comedienne and actor and has performed both Improv and her solo comedy shows from Adelaide to Edinburgh to Gore. She represented NZ at the Theatresports World Cup in Germany in 2006 and was victorious at the Edmonton Improvaganza in 2003. She has appeared on 7 Days, Breakfast and Radio NZ National as a social commentator and was also the originator of Austen Found and has enjoyed touring it extensively since.

Nigel Burrows has performed both improv nationally and internationally for over 20 years. As a core cast member of Auckland Theatresports from 1988, Nigel also represented Auckland on two occasions for the televised Auckland and Wellington National Champs and Performed at The Edmonton Fringe- International Theatresports Champs 1991.

Clare Kelso has been a Producer, Creative Director, Actor and Mentor at ConArtists, the Home of Theatresports, for 22 years this September. Other accolades include literally thousands of public performances and winning New Zealand Playwright of the Year.

AUCKLAND

Dates: 5th – 8th and 12th – 15th 7pm
Venue: The Drake, 2 Drake St, Freeman’s Bay
Tickets: $20/$18 Groups 6+ $18
Bookings: www.eventfinder.co.nz or cash at the Door.