![]() Godber probably didn't realise when he first put pen to paper that the script can so easily be updated. But that's not the only reason for its success. Today's binge-drinking culture means Bouncers is just as relevant if not more so than when it was written. Godber wrote it as a therapeutic antidote to his own problem of being a wallflower at discos and failing to gain girls' attention. ![]() Listed by the National Theatre as one of the top plays of the 20th century, Bouncers retains its popularity because it looks at the different stances taken by men and women to attract the opposite sex. Yet there's one play that's as fresh now as when it was first written: Bouncers, John Godber's sharp observation of life on Friday and Saturday nights in a disco in a typical British town. The fashions of the era now seem as inappropriate as punk rock music in a dance hall. Most plays that are 30 years old are probably beginning to show their age. ![]()
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