As the eighties hits play on a loop, we meet four fellas on the door, keeping order, putting the world to rights and night-dreaming of better things for themselves…or at least some sort of action on the horizon a leg-up or a bust-up if you please…preferably both in some combination…īouncers quickly whips a rope around us and drags us way down into the very depths of clubbing shenanigans and if you don’t currently delight in your experiences with potty mouthed, crotch thrusting drunk men and squealing, weeping drunk women, then you will after seeing this. Eighties born and bred, Bouncers is The Inbetweeners before The Inbetweeners it’s Some Girls before Some Girls it’s more than once akin to The Young Ones in characterisations and it sees little to nothing as off limits. Set in and around a nightclub, it’s easy to guess at some of the characters and plot points we might be greeted with, but unless you know the play or the playwright already, there’s little to prepare you for this show and the lengths it goes to for laughs.
This is a very finely tuned production which sees a cast of four hit every mark with impressive precision – the cast know where the laughs are, and they beeline for them with complete confidence, winning every time. This is not the first time Bite My Thumb have produced John Godber’s Bouncers, and it shows. Thursday 7th June 2018 at the Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds.
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