Ben Hur review: Southwick Players has audience in stitches with crazy spoof

It’s all very Monty Python, with the cast of seven having to put in a deliberately bad performance – which means they have to be really rather good.

The Daniel Veil Collective, touring actors with delusions of grandeur, are putting on the play.

There is plenty of audience participation, which is really rather fun, and most of last night’s audience were pretty much laughing all the way through.

Though everyone had multiple parts, Louise Yeo had probably the hardest task, with two and even occasionally three of her characters in the same scene (though at one point she was replaced with a dummy).

She included different accents and had totally different personas, very impressive indeed.

In the play, Amy Bowyer is making her debut with the collective but we at Southwick, of course, know she is no stranger to the Barn stage. She had some great little parts, including a Centurion who has to tie up several prisoners by running round and round them with a piece of rope.