![]() ![]() ![]() There’s drinking – endless rounds of it – much shouting, dancing and music. There’s hope that each will get lucky and pull, score even grope someone tonight. There’s preparation – at the hairdressers the girls planning their night – then Bouncers running through the routine while a bunch of workmen josh each other into the mood. Revealing some of the realities of nights standing out in the cold and dealing with the dregs of night life, the four bouncers each take on many parts – as punters, punks, hairdressers, losers, boys, and girls, barely legal, hardly dressed – in a whirl of interactions all leading to one night out at the club. He uses almost Brechtian techniques of characters narrating their own actions, while referring to themselves in the third person. Portable, with minimal set but with good actors and a proper technician, it can take the audience on a ride of energy and adrenaline, with glimpses of seedy pick –ups, desperate dollies and totalled tosspots interspersed with tongue in cheek social commentary. One of the best known and most often performed of Godber’s plays or adaptations, it’s easy to understand its sustained popularity. ![]() Even the resident roof rat was too afraid to show its face after Judd, the mouthiest of the four, alluded to what sexual act he might consider performing on a rat if it crossed his path. John Godber’s quartet for four actors in the guise of Bouncers at a northern English night club certainly rocks the hanging baskets in its staid Victorian Conservatory venue. ![]()
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