BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – IT was only a two-hour show, but the laughs and messages were enough to last a very long time as the National Players Theatre Movement presented ‘Let’s Laugh Again’.
The night featured a combination of four one-act comedy plays lasting no more than a half hour each which made the production very uplifting and of course hilarious.
The show definitely lived up to its name as each play had the audience seconds away from rolling on the floor with laughter.
The production opened with “Desired Honeymoon” featuring a married couple, Ben and Agnes Murray, dealing with health issues, keeping a good diet, and a wife’s dream of having the royal wedding of which she always dreamed.
“It’s Only For A Time” was a mind boggling piece that showed double standards, counterfeit friends, and the aftermath of alcoholism.
The act depicted John, a husband who has been unemployed for some time, and who spends his time consuming alcohol. He supposedly died and his friend wasted no time in courting Mary, John’s wife.
Play three, “Licks Like Fire”, saw a mother, Beulah, going to her son’s school to complain about his teacher beating him, only to find out that her son, Peter, was not as innocent as she thought.
After hearing the numerous acts of mischief Peter had been involved in, Beulah went from defending her son to giving him licks like fire!
In “Like Hog Love Mud”, Andy, a frail husband is encouraged by Gerry, his best friend to scheme against his cheating wife after she was found in the marital bedroom with Oscar, her “cousin”.
After seeing her husband supposedly fight with Gerry for a girl, she gets jealous and tries to leave but is ordered by her now alpha husband to stay and change her adulterous ways.
Presented at ECCB’s Sir Cecil Jacobs Auditorium on Saturday (Nov. 26) and Sunday (Nov. 27), this very successful show portrayed the comedic skills of the actors in various roles which captured the audience’s attention throughout the entire show.
Clement ‘Bouncing’ Williams, a creative arts veteran, was the author of two of the plays, while the other two were composed by his good friend, Freddie Kissoon of Trinidad. The four plays presented under the ‘Let’s Laugh Again’ umbrella were filled with amusement.
The show was truly “two hours plus of down-pack comedy” and a lesson was given in every act. The actors did an outstanding job at delivering the intended messages while keeping a convincing comedic image.
