Royal Court Liverpool are producing one of English Theatre’s best known plays this summer. John Godber’s Bouncers will be filling the slot vacated by One Night In Istanbul and will run from 19th July – 17th August.
The show will be set at Liverpool’s Grafton nightclub in 1985.
John Godber is one of the most performed playwrights in the English language with plays like Teechers, Up N Under and Screaming Blue Murder regularly performed up and down the country. Bouncers is the most popular of all his shows and since it was written in 1977 there has always been a production of it playing somewhere in the world. He has written more than 50 plays and has won numerous awards for his plays including a Lawrence Olivier Award and seven Los Angeles Critics Circle Awards.
Times might change but some things stay the same. Ralph, Les, Judd and Lucky Eric are ready for another night on the doors while the club fills up with characters that you will all recognise.
They’re not doormen or security operatives – they’re bouncers and they’ve seen it all. Lads full of lager, girls full of giggles and clubs full of crazy stories.
Casting is complete for the Royal Court production with Michael Starke (A Nightmare On Lime Street), Paul Broughton (Council Depot Blues), Danny O’Brien (The Salon) and Mark Womack (Hope, Liverpool One) pulling on the black jackets. The play will be directed by Royal Court favourite Bob Eaton.
Kevin Fearon, Chief Executive of Royal Court Liverpool, will definitely be getting in: “Bouncers has been a favourite of mine because it was the first show that I saw at the Everyman back in 1985 with John McArdle, Terry Melia and Con O’Neil in the cast. It has always been my ambition to produce something as good as that again. I’m delighted to get a cast of this kind of quality too. Each one of them has impressed in the past here and I can’t wait to see them all working together.”
Book soon because if your name’s not down then you’re not coming in.
Bouncers will run from Friday 19th July to Saturday 17th August 2013. Tickets and information are available from http://www.liverpoolcomedyfestival.com or on 0870 787 1866.