Tag Archives: John Godber

April In Paris, Theatre Review. Floral Pavilion, New Brighton.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Shobna Gulati, Joe McGann.

Paris is the city of many dreams, it whispers across the Channel and throughout Europe like a tempting lover, slowly cocking its finger, begging that you come armed with flowers and an open mind. Together with knowing full well that the first time you lay eyes on sights such as Sacre Coeur, the Moulin Rouge, the magnificence of the Eiffel Tower and the haunting gothic nature of Notre-Dame, Paris will capture the heart and have you professing love, even if the word is an alien as the thought of not having the stomach to try the gastronomic delights on offer in April in Paris.

Joe McGann And Shobna Gulati Star In April In Paris At The New Brighton Pavilion.

Paris truly is a magnificent city, arguably the most sophisticated in the whole of Western Europe but is it a place in which relationship problems can be solved or fixed? Only the unique talent of John Godber knows as he directs his comical, truthful masterpiece April In Paris which is on at the New Brighton Pavilions from Wednesday 24th to Saturday 27th September.

Al and Bet’s relationship is on the rocks. He has recently lost his job, she works in a shoe shop and can only dream of a better life but things are about to change…

Bouncers, Theatre Review. St. Helens Theatre Royal.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Simon O’Brien, Neville Cann, Benjamin Engelen, John F. Doull.

There are many sides to a city or town but the main difference is between its day time appearance, perhaps full of shoppers, workers and casual visitors and then its late time manifestation, its night life where the rules of the day go out the window and out comes the darker side of drink, drugs and wild abandonment in which we all try to forget the menace of the day.  Voiced by some of the inhabitants of the night, John Godber’s Bouncers is not only a knock out look at some of the funnier aspects of this time of day but perhaps the best kind of social comment that gets too often neglected.

Bouncers To Step In At The Royal Court This July.

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.

John Godber’s International Hit, Bouncers, Comes To The St. Helens Theatre Royal.

Regal Entertainments bring St. Helens Theatre Royal another of their critically acclaimed productions this June when a refreshed and revived version of Bouncers; the hilarious international hit comedy by John Godber takes to the stage. Bouncers: The Remix is set in the present day and will transport audiences into that famous Pontefract nightclub Mr Cinders and a tale of high hopes, dented dreams and late-night kebabs with from Wednesday 26th to Sunday 30th June.