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.
