Celebcity: Charmaine Davies

Factor 2025

I do have a guilty pleasure. Don’t tell anyone, but I love watching a bit of reality TV. Okay watching a lot of reality TV.

But having been on reality TV myself, I know that it’s not always reality that the viewers see.

This week I was asked to appear in a stage show called ‘Factor 2025’, which is from the book of the same name, written by Johnny Tait. It’s a play set in 2025 and about a top rated reality talent show, which has hit rock bottom. The producer Trenton Powell (played by Johnny Tait) uses and manipulates the talent and people around him in order to try and revive his failing show that has been moved from ITV to Channel Five.

I’m not sure what a certain TV mogul would make of this play!

‘Factor 2025’ is a controversial, cynical yet comical play about modern day TV talent shows. I played a stand up comedian (who of course was very good!) but whose back story wasn’t sad or tragic enough, so wouldn’t be on the TV.

The theatre audience watching ‘Factor 2025’, actually play the part of the TV studio audience and are interacted with throughout the show. However real acts from the singing, comedy and cabaret circuit perform, but as if they are auditioning. These included comedy double act Midlife 80’s, Paul Traynor and Wayne Kincade, also burlesque troupe Velvet Coquettes. The funniest act of the show must have been the Oddballs, which is a group of five grown men doing a naked ballon dance which had the audience in stitches.

I’m not sure what a certain talent TV mogul would make of this play, but I do know that a lot of truth is revealed in Factor 2025 about how these type of TV shows are made!