Mischief Movie Night - Arts / Tour / The Other Palace

Many thanks, danielwhit

I was there just as a viewer, and this was my first viewing of a Mischief Movie Night - and I loved it. My highlights were Henry Shields rapping about making love to a broom, Henry Lewis as Toxic Joe and a sloth, and Harry Kershaw speaking in alien language. I thought the whole idea was so good, and I cannot believe how good at improvising they are. Really looking forward to the rest of the shows.

Yes. (Do I actually need to say that?!) The stream glitched briefly a handful of times but other than that it was okay for me technically. I could have done without the Zoom participation element altogther - Showstopper manages their audience suggestions with just tweets - but then the audience suggestions bit at the start is always my least favourite part of improv shows. The end credits must have been a bit confusing for people who don't know all the cast by sight as they credited everyone who was due to be in the WE run - plus Ellie Morris who's currently in TPTGW - rather than just those who were in tonight's performance. It'll be interesting to see if they rotate cast members for the other 5 livestreams.

I have to say I did like how Jonathan Sayer's interjections forced the scenes in different directions. I don't know if the compare role will be alternated. And yeah the Zoom sections were a bit awkward, especially when asked to come up with something on the spot. Otherwise it was a great show, I especially enjoyed Lauren Shearing and Henry Lewis' scenes.

Absolutely loved tonight's Vampire Romance movie. Complete chaos with cast forgetting who they are meant to be playing just added to the fun. I'm convinced that Henry Lewis is Brian Blessed in disguise with that big booming voice. Tonight's best line came from Lizzie (on-line) about dead people going to Blackpool. Having been to Blackpool a number of times, I'd certainly agree with her!

I thought tonight's was so much better. A genre ripe for parody and lots of wonderful moments, my personal highlight were the vicious breakfast vendors.

Compared to last night, I certainly enjoyed tonight's one more. I think it helped that I was able to get a good stream without any buffering like I did last night so I didn't miss out on any of the show. I thought the on-line audience participation bits were done better and more involved in proceedings. Looks like I'm going to watch all the evening performances. They are just so much fun to watch.

I think the Zoom bits are getting better, I thought the bit with the Mum was handled well. It's nice that they are included without being embarrassed.

About 70 minutes.

This evening was a fantasy horror - Flat pack Attack. This was definitely my favourite of the 4 live streamed shows so far - Henry Lewis as the mother of Helen, Joshua Elliot as HR - him trying to come up with 10 relatives names, Bryony Corrigan going off to prepare her finger, the Irish Jig to commemorate the dead, and Harry Kershaw as Delta von Tussle, who only spoke in rhyming couplets. The corpses corpsing as Delta rhymed amygdala with sphincter made it even better. I was literally crying with laughter for a large portion of that hour. Not much of a plot at times, but seriously entertaining.

I guess it'll come down to finances and whether this is viable or not. Jonathan did say "thousands of people" watching earlier in the week.

I'd be hopeful that they do more - it's an interesting "event" to deliver online and does seem to land well. In a way it almost works better like this than it does in person.

Harry Kershaw steals the show every night - Giles was hilarious, especially his one man conga - and him forgetting his name again, leading to Jonathan having his rant was hilarious.