Theatre Royal, WakefieldJane Thornton and John Godber's knockabout 1985 cocktail bar comedy is updated to the cost of living crisis era, with a downsized cast doing a valiant job of keeping the party going Playwrights Jane Thornton and John Godber first staged Shakers in 1985, a point when the escapism of working-class new romanticism was morphing into the cynicism of loadsamoney Thatcherism. At the start of the deca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55AM on September 14, 2022