Shakers by John Godber and Jane Thornton
21:00 7 – 12 Aug 2023, The Royal Scots Club (Venue 241)
It’s Edinburgh in the 1980s. High unemployment, rubbish working conditions and rampant sexism. Sound familiar?
Meet Adele, Carole, Mel and Nicky – four waitresses at the Shakers cocktail bar. Playing a multitude of different characters – customers, checkout girls, lads out on a spree, lecherous media types and more – the girls lay bare the desperation underneath their cheerful public faces. Fast-moving, by turns hilarious and tragic, punctuated by music of the time, the play highlights how little the lives of women and those struggling to get by have changed over the decades.
The Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group aka EGTG, has been putting on theatre productions in Edinburgh for over 60 years and has established its place as one of the city’s most respected amateur theatre companies. The company will also present a second play this Edinburgh Fringe: crackers by emerging Edinburgh playwright cmfwood, an unsettling exploration of society’s uneasy relationship with mental ill-health. Both crackers and Shakers will be performed at the Royal Scots Club, Venue 241, 07-12 August.
Shakers by John Godber and Jane Thornton
21:00 7 – 12 Aug 2023, The Royal Scots Club
★★★★☆ Impressive
Hugh Simpson for All Edinburgh Theatre
“well staged, well acted, consistently funny and with a huge heart”
★★★★☆ A theatrical delight
Greg Stewart for Theatre Weekly
“Every audience member came out of the show with a huge grin on their face, praising this funny, yet poignant production.”
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