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Bouncers john godber script1/16/2024 ![]() The success of the production (and it is, largely, successful) hangs on unflagging energy of the cast and the renewed capacity of the text to speak to a diverse Liverpudlian constituency. Maurice Bessman’s adaptation uproots and transports Pontefract 1984 to Liverpool 2018(-ish). To describe it as theatre aimed at people who might not normally go to the theatre would be neither unfair nor uncomplimentary. As a piece, it has, in common with Dylan Thomas’s ‘play for voices’, Under Milk Wood, the lack of a dramatic story, being instead a (sometimes poetic) rendering of a single night in clubland. John Godber’s Bouncers, first produced in 1984, was once described as "not so much a play, more a social phenomenon", and featured in the National Theatre’s NT2000 list of significant plays of the twentieth century.
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