We are writing a new show at the moment, which we're really excited about. Previous shows have just been compilations of sketches we’ve had for ages and ages, although our last one was slightly different in that it was performed in an immersive theatre environment, something we are going to try and keep for subsequent shows.
We should hopefully be working together in a few weeks’ time, as we may be taking part in something called Sitcom Trials. Basically, you perform a 15 minute mini-sitcom pilot live in front of a group of television-industry types. The drawback, certainly for us, is that you don’t perform your own material, you are assigned a script and we are less than enthused about the scripts that arrived for us to perform. If we can tweak them to our favour, and cheekily rewrite them slightly, then we’ll be happy. But this could be against the rules. Are we judged purely on the performance, and the writer purely on his script? So even though the script we’re doing might be rubbish, are we going to be judged on just our performance? Because what if it’s vice versa in another instance? Terrible performers who have a really great script given to them?
We’ll see.
As for the new live show, once it’s taken shape we hope to take it around the country, and hit the whole thing a lot harder than we have done in the past. Opportunities for runs at the Henley Fringe Festival and the Leicester Comedy Festival have presented themselves, so ideally we’d like to be able to do the show there. There’s also the Manchester Comedy Festival next year for us to do something as well. And there’s always
Currently, we’re writing it under the tentative title The Boycott Deathtrap 1961 Revue, although that might change.
We thought we’d stick up a recording of a sketch from our last live show The Boycott Deathtrap Live Secretly in the Red Room, performed in
