FOR the next four nights, beginning tonight, the National Cultural Centre is about to be rocked with laughter when the KFC Link Show 34 goes down, with one of the biggest cast the satirical review has seen since is first got started over three decades ago.

“We’re on schedule and we’re ready to open tonight,” informed the show’s producer Gem Nascimento.
This year, the cast will see Link show regulars like Michael Ignatius and Mark Luke-Edwards, mixed in with a few cyclical actors and a number of newcomers, while the jokes of course are expected to be well laced with the politics of the day; and it’s all under the direction of veteran director, Ron Robinson.
Robinson himself has written most of the show’s skits, with assistance from Nascimento, while a few of the actors have contributed a skit or two.

Creole ‘Rock’ musician Gavin Mendonca is also set to make his debut performance at the show. He’s going to be performing the closing song, which was written by Soca singer Kwasi “Ace” Edmondson.
Edmondson was supposed to be a part of the show but had to opt out due to conflicts with his schedule.
“I don’t think we had so many people. I think this easily could be the first time that we have so many [actors in the cast] we’re having about 36 to 37, for the first Link we had a very big cast for that, but I don’t think we had so many people. ,” commented Nascimento.

The inclusion of a lot of newcomers to the show is part of the producers’ strategic plan to ensure a sustained supply of actors for the show.
“Normally we would have 20 – 22 [in the cast] but we decided to start grooming a lot more newcomers in it and people who haven’t been around the Link for a while, or who have never. It’s always good to continuously have new people by grooming new blood, that’s always necessary,” Nascimento noted.

The show is expected to run nightly from 20:00hrs, and last no longer than three hours. Nascimento has assured that it will not disappoint those hungry to see its return.
“The environment is just so ripe that you can’t help it, but think that a Link Show should be on,” Nascimento had earlier told `The Buzz’, while adding “people are thinking about what is happening now in the country and you can’t help but satirise these, so those issues will dominate the show, because they are current and they’re very topical. It’s what everybody is talking about. So they can expect different angles hitting at that. They’ll be lots of laughter and satirical stuff.”