Originally published by L.S. Media. June 10th 2011.

Cast: Donna Lesley Price, Richie Grice, Jodie Nesbitt, Angela Waller, Su Burke, Trevor Fleming, James Williams-Watts, Al T Kossy.

In amongst the high profile theatre productions going on in Liverpool over the next couple of months, one piece of genuine theatre may have passed the everyday theatre goer by, which is, with all things considered, a shame. For in Boom Boom Baby Productions of If the Shoe Fits, audiences were left reeling with laughter as the company thrilled everyone with their irreverent look at Liverpool life through the eyes of a group of people who work in a high class shoe shop.

Each member of the superb troupe was on fine form, from Donna Lesley Price as the slightly off kilter Daphne who charmed the audience with her warmth and grace, Jodie Nesbitt as the seemingly hard as nails Chas who hides a disturbing secret through to the superb Al. T. Kassy as the customer with a shoe fetish. Each and everyone, just a wonderful caricature of everybody you could dare to meet in and around Liverpool.

The Unity Theatre always seems to find these little golden nuggets of theatre writing, which is a real bonus to Liverpool. In other cities something would have to give and more than likely it would always be the smaller productions that would suffer, however as Liverpool continues to prove time and time again, there is room for every type of theatre and every conceivable taste.

If the Shoe Fits is touching, sarcastic, indisputably funny and a perfect look at a side of Liverpool life that rarely gets mentioned. The entire cast played their parts perfectly and even in the more dark and seedier parts of the play they still manage to hold on to their humour firmly and provide a night out that will be fondly thought of by all those who saw it. If the Shoe Fits is a comedy that deserves and demands a bigger run.

4 stars

Ian D. Hall