It’s not very easy to review improv, because it changes every night, but Snort with Friends is a very good time.

From a series of mono­logues based off audi­ence prompts, the Snort cast (in our case, it was Kura For­rester, Chris Park­er, Bryn­ley Stent, Don­na Brook­banks, Rhi­an­non McCall and Tom Sains­bury) plays out a bunch of vignettes which usu­al­ly (??) are some­what relat­ed to the mono­logues.

It’s a loose for­mat, but that does­n’t stop the fun.

Our monolo­gists (??) for the night were Rhys Nichol­son, who talked about how kids are obsessed with either dinosaurs or Egypt (in his case, Egypt); Tes­sa Brooks, who spawned a piece loose­ly cen­tered around France and clown school; and Liv Park­er who spoke most­ly about cush­ions but was the cat­a­lyst for a tear-induc­ing (that’s a pos­i­tive) piece about Kmart.

From plac­ards to erot­ic duck-feed­ing, angry French­men and con­fused clowns improv is incred­i­ble and the Snort cast are some of the most tal­ent­ed lot out there.

It’s chaos at its best.

Snort is fin­ished in Welling­ton as part of the Com­e­dy Fes­ti­val, but it runs at the Base­ment The­atre in Auck­land most Fri­day nights dur­ing the year with a rotat­ing cast. Check out their site for tick­ets.