Hereford - The Bloopers/Deleted Scenes :P

Because it's healthy to laugh at ourselves..:D


(Gosh..women..always going on about nothing...Can I get a coffee over here?!)


(Uh Josh? I know you're into Sam's gloves but it's a bit late for a role change, mate...)


(What? WHAT? You said I was meant to get into my role!)


(Man, when Faye did that funky flip over Josh's back last night...I didn't want to say anything but...)


(Life's just so unfair...)

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The wheels on the van go round and round...

(Faye with Sean in Hereford)


The Hereford road trip was amazing and lots of fun! Our team of six (consisting of Josh, Simon, Sam, Heather, Faye, Mari and Sean...Sam's younger brother and up and coming stagestorm :P)spent Friday at Simon's rehearsing the new play as well as brushing up on Everything and Four Horsemen. Mari once again graciously donned the robes of Death while Sam embraced a new role as Money!


(Sam as Money...yes I know, he looks like Pete Doherty, but hey, the audience loved it!)

We arrived in Hereford on a grey but sun-shiny Saturday morning and drove to the small campground where the church members had rented us a lot for our caravan....
YES WE WENT CAMPING, PEOPLE!
I tragically don't have any pics of the trailer or the antics that squishing six people into a relatively small space would produce, but it was crazy and fun lol.
The event turned out to be a combination of three different churches in England and was being held that evening in a big, old fashioned Marquee on the grounds of the Herefordshire Food Fair! Check it out.


(Me (Heather) and the awesome tent behind!)

Inside the marquee, we got set up (they had a terrific stage going on, complete with dry ice and disco lights) and spent some time rehearsing on stage (I won't say how that went because I don't want to get dead :P). The event didn't start till 8 PM so we meandered through the food fair and took in some of the local sights (and tastes :D).


(Faye lounging in the grass...)

At 8, the gig kicked off. About 200 young people turned up for the event, including a very special Christian band from Bracknel called Ethos. Their members are all from the ages of 15 to 20 and they were the winners of the Battle of Bands competition last year. Their stuff rocked! They had the whole room moshing to their music in no time, and we traded off with them every few songs to perform one of our dramas.
Amazingly, all three plays went off without a hitch. The crowds loved it! We got cheers and hoots every time Jesus spoke and all the other Horsemen got loud boos when they gave their speeches, lol. The Everything skit wasn't foreign to some of the people there, but the ones we spoke with afterward said that ours was the best they'd ever seen (I think that might've been due to the fact that I was literally getting thrown around for real which they oohed and ahhed at, lol).


(A rather blurry shot of Four Horsemen being performed)

What really crunched was when it came time to perform the Set Me Free skit (that's now the official name of the Who Pulls the Strings skit). We were very nervous about doing it, but all the frantic prayers (God please help us do it right and I promise I'll stop yanking Sammy's chains so hard for fun)paid off and it was a roaring success! Well, by that I mean the crowd loved it and everyone oohed and ahhed again, especially at the very phsycial and risky fight scene at the end (which involves Josh versus just about everyone else in a battle for Sam's life...and there's no weapons in the picture ppl).


(Some of the audience watching our plays at the event)

Just about everyone got hit (right hook to the jaw, kick in the chest, elbow in the neck, a hazardous flip over Josh's back which wasn;t controlled and had the crowd gasping as Faye went soaring head over heels and landed smack on her back...the crowd went WOW and Faye went Ow...very quietly of course lol).
Sadly since we were all performing the skit, there aren't any pics, but you can watch the original on youtube here: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=alleRy70rAM
(Warning: it's not for the faint of heart!! But it's worth it if you're brave enough!)

Ethos came back on stage and rocked on, and the Horsemen ditched their costumes with relief and joined in on the moshing as the night rolled on (sorry, don't have any pictures of that either, and it's too bad, cuz Josh and Sam leaping around is a funny sight any day). The event wrapped up around eleven PM and we happily headed back to the trailer, bearing the numbing winter cold with new smiles on our faces as we quickly drifted off to dreamland...
Our gig with the actual church was at around ten thirty the next morning, so we were buzzed awake at seven thirty by the cheery sound of our alarms. We ate and got ready then drove off to the church, only to come to a horrible realization...
(dramatic music..) THE CLOCKS HAD CHANGED!
That's right. Daylight Saving was activated the night before and we'd actually gotten at six thirty AM (oooh yes...heads were going to roll...well...wires actually, once we attacked our alarm clocks for the injustice lol). So our team ended up with quite a wait on our hands.
At least they were kind enough to let us inside the church and show us to a nice, warm room a ways off where we could wait it out. The boys went a little stir-crazy after a while and an impromptu game of tennis-ball hockey (yes we invented it) commenced.


(What do you mean, we didn't have hockey sticks? The weapons did just fine...)

Ethos were there again to grace us all with a softer but just as awesome batch of songs before we were called up to perform. Again, we alternated with their band, although this time we just did the Four Horsemen and Everything skits (everyone was still nursing their wounds from the Set Me Free skit the night before, lol).


(Four Horsemen hits the pulpit...actually amazingly enough, we didn't. The boys behaved themselves during the fight scene for once :P)


("I am the second horseman and my color is black..." - Sam on stage)

The congregation were very generous with their applause and their praise afterward when they approached us to talk. We were very privileged to have witnessed the sight of different christian groups in the UK coming together with a vision to offer their myriad of talents in aid of bettering the quality of life for their communities. We were especially impressed by Ethos and their youth group - a warm, lively bunch who made us feel at home with their welcoming and friendly antics (and their pizza :D) ...awww...


(Faye with the Ethos band and pals)

We bid everyone farewell around two PM and popped in on Frank (the wonderful man who made this all possible and invited us to the event - Frank, we love you and couldn't have done it without you!) who was still at the food fair before hitching up the trailer and heading home - tired, sore (in more then one place for some of us) and exhausted, but happy!

(Some post-trip pics when all the stage make-up comes off and the weapons are laid to rest :P I just thought these were too cute to leave out. Enjoy and God bless!)


(Jesus slept...)


(Sam catching a snooze...)


('Huh, what? Oh...' Heather caught unawares)


(And that's about all for now, peeps! Catch ya on the other side! -- The Four Horsemen team)

On the Road Again!

That's right - we're never satisfied...not even close...
In the words of D.B.Berg - "You've got to keep sacrificing, you've got to keep forsaking, you've got to keep fighting every day".

Our theatre team is back on the wheels this weekend, ready to take two days of performing at a christian venue by storm! Oh and did I mention that our repertoire has now been expanded to THREE PLAYS?

Yeah you read that right. The 'Who Pulls The Strings' play is just going to be undergoing some final tweaking and then it's ready to roll! There'll be pics and hopefully a clip coming next week so keep your head up for those, but until then, HERE'S SPOILERS FOR THE NEW SKIT:

Sam (Death) will ditch his scythe in favor of chains...

Heather (me, the blonde :P) is going to be a far cry from her role as distressed girl in the Everything skit as she will play a much darker part...

We'll see Josh (Jesus) performing a roundhouse kick among other stunts...

The new skit involves barcodes, chains, boxes, and beer bottles...

That's as much as you're getting out of me for now though, or the others will pummel me for being a snitch, lol. Stay tuned for those pics - Tuesday's the estimated day to be keeping your eyes open! Till then take care and God bless!

The Four Horsemen go Morris in Reading!

Back again with updates on the awesome weekend we had!

On Saturday, our theatre team went to Reading to perform the Four Horsemen and Everything plays on it's noble walking streets.

When we first got there, it seemed to be progressing like a normal day: we met and talked to some nice people and did the plays in-between.

(Talk about interactive fun!War (Dee Jay) captures a willing member of the audience!)

But after about 2 hours of being there, some Morris dancers came along and began performing near our spot. Well, we talked with them and decided on a kind of 'you go, we go thing', where they did a dance and then we did a play.

(The Four Horsemen performing for a captive audience... spot the dancers!)

The result of this mutually beneficial deal was...:) We got a HUGE crowd and we got to do both plays. Things were on a comfortable roll, when all of a sudden...(drum-roll)...

THE MORRIS DANCERS PULLED US IN! Lol, we did a dance with them even though we didn’t have a CLUE what was going on.

(War and Death getting in on the action!)

(Faye was literally swept off her feet!)

After our impromptu bout of dancing (during which we all got a turn), we continued on with our day. Reading is an awesome place: we got to meet some really nice people who saw the plays, and all in all, it turned out to be a really great Saturday!

WALES II

(The Four Horsemen in Cardiff Bay!)

Aaaannd....WE ARE BACK!
Two smashing days in Wales and we have lived to tell the tale! (No that wasn't meant to rhyme, but since it does...:D). Our team was downsized considerably this time due to mitigating circumstances (the main one being that our dearly beloved Sam wasn't able to come along). So we set out with only a van-full of 7 - that's right, just seven of us went...and only for two days!
They were an amazing two days, though! On Thursday evening, our team (Heather, Dee Jay, Josh, Simon, Mari, Tina and Sam's eleven year-old sister Amanda) arrived in Cardiff and were out the next day performing the Four Horsemen play downtown. And while we're on that note.... (drumroll)...

MARI HAS OFFICIALLY BECOME THE FIRST EVER FEMALE HORSEMAN!

That's right. Mari (who normally plays the Drunk in the Everything skit) took up Death's scythe for the two days we were in Wales. And she did wonderfully - with everything from the lines to the fight scene (although there were a few bashed knuckles and bruises, but hey, hazards of the job, right?).

Oh and who played the Drunk, you ask? NO-ONE! But Tina did win the audience's heart (and lots of applause) when she came staggering out as a peace-loving druggie with a splif!

(Yes, Tina was dressed like this the whole time...:D)

Saturday was Swansea day (woo hoo) and our black-and-white-painted team spent an awesome afternoon in the town center, where both the Four Horsemen and Everything skit made a comeback! Cate (who plays Vanity) wasn't able to come this time, so guess who took up the torch? Amanda! That's right, Amanda has officially become the youngest ever actor to perform in our street plays. And I'd just like to add that she did great - for those of you who've seen the Everything skit, you know Vanity is not the easiest role to play. But after only a couple of practice session, Amanda got up there and did the catwalk strut to perfection (complete with the pout, the sneer and the shoulder swivel lol).

So that's two records for us (First Female Horseman and Youngest Ever Actress). But the coolest part of the road trip was, of course, the awesome young people we got to meet! It was also great seeing a lot of you who we met last time in Swansea for a second time. You guys really made our day (BethAnn...I so did pronouce your name right this time around!) And also kudos to Bradley, Yoshi, Rorie and David (you guys are officially the first to have ever gotten down on your knees in the middle of the street to pray with me - I think I turned red and you guys got a great kick out of that one :P)

The only tragedy? WE DIDN'T BRING A CAMERA :((....sob sob. It was all a great big misunderstanding that resulted in our not being able to take anything but phone shots of all the amazing things that were packed into those two days. I'm working on getting those ones, but until I do, I'm afraid to say I don't have ANY pictures for you guys! But bear with me...

Until the next time... :D

The Second Coming ...

Good news all (well, we're excited anyway :P)! The Four Horsemen team will be returning to Wales for another round - woo hoo! We'll be arriving in Cardiff Thursday evening and will be staying until Saturday evening. SOO... if you met us during our last visit there (or you heard about us and want to)....

WE'LL BE IN WALES TONIGHT! COME AND SEE US!

Below is a number you can call to give us a buzz if you'd like to meet up with us during our stay in Wales! It would be awesome to see you!

Call Dee Jay on: 07939808420

Whispers of a September Play ....

Hey everyone!

I know there aren't much updates at the moment, but bear with us :D. We're working our creative muses on the development of a NEW and EXCITING PLAY! Things are on the roll now and we'll no doubt be flooding the blog with pics of the new play debuting in all our favorite spots so KEEP A LOOK OUT for the Four Horsemen in your area.

Here's a little teaser :P - the title of the new play is ... (drumroll) ... WHO PULLS THE STRINGS (coming soon to a walking street near you)

Other then that, school's back in as I'm sure most of you know, which means that our dear Sam (Death) is now buckling down to a new term. BUT NEVER FEAR! The Grey Horsemen is still riding with us at the weekend, braving the winds and rain (yeah London is a bummer for September weather)!

Not much else to report for now. Keep the faith!

-- Your Four Horsemen team