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The Full Monty
Opens: 02/02/2013 Closes: 18/05/2013
UK tour
The 1997 film was box office gold, but we can't help feeling a little put off by the idea of a stage version. There was more than amateur male stripping to the film of course (unemployment in the North during the 1980s) and it seems we're heading for a decade easily as financially crap as that one, so Simon Beaufoy might just hit a nerve again with this adaptation of his own screenplay.
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80 %
Whatsonstage.com“It is a journey of vigour and emancipation out of oppression...” Deals with the quite grim topics of unemployment, depression, suicide, and the personal struggle of a man coming to terms with his homosexuality. In true Yorkshire fashion, these are approached with dark comedy and a gritty sense of humour...
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The Stage“A warm glow of enjoyment palpably spreads around the audience...” Retains the essential warmth of the characterisation and camaraderie that the men find in each other, and a lot of his jokes from the original film. But Evans makes it enjoyably fresh in the appealing casting of a set of perfectly normal blokes...
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Guardian“A show with a heart the size of Sheffield. It's a total blast...” It's a raucous and touching piece of popular theatre that captures the mood of the 1980s, when a generation of men realised that their jobs-for-life in the steel industry were gone, and they were on the scrap heap...
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The Independent“Provides a brilliantly entertaining night out...” It mines its laughs from a bleak seam of depression, isolation and confusion forging joy from the language and spirit of men who refuse to be crushed by the wheels of post industrialism. It is impossible not to be drawn to the protagonists...
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The Telegraph“Every inch a whopping hit, I’d say....” There are more gags and more digs at Thatcher but essentially it’s the same beast. Evans makes ingenious use of an imposing derelict steel-mill set to conjure familiar scenes...
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