![]() ![]() Should anyone see this play being performed elsewhere in the country you’d be right to hope for the regional dialects to coincide with wherever the piece is being presented as it’s important for the audience to see traits and characteristics of people they face on a regular/daily basis being imitated on stage if it’s to strike the desired result. This Sale Nomads production has a sense of retaining its 1980’s attributes with some of the phrases and comments in the script seeming ever-so slightly out of date for 2017 though many references had been brought up to date and its location uprooted to the North West which is absolutely the right choice for a piece such as this. ‘Shakers’ - written by John Godber and Jane Thornton in 1985 as a sister piece to Godber’s ‘Bouncers’ - has undergone various re-writes over the years, almost as though it’s a working progress piece.
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