Caught on Tape

The Putney Players are a group of American high school students at the end of a four-week theatre course run by New York directors Jennifer Lafleur and Shannon Michael Wamser. They spent two weeks in London and Stratford-upon-Avon beefing up their theatre-going credentials and conducting interviews with random passers-by on the subject of lies. Over the next two weeks, they devised a half-hour collection of scenes and vignettes built upon the confessions of these candid liars. 

The players have a palpable enthusiasm. Whether they are staging the regret of a former child for the harm their little white lies caused or enacting a game show centered around tall-tale-telling, Caught on Tape is intelligent, entertaining, and consistently convincing.