I Once Was a Bonnie Young Trainspotter

Come here for a minute ’til I tell you about a bunch of deviants from Kilkenny, a talented bunch of misshapen misfits - The Devious Theatre Group. Last year, I was lucky enough to catch their brilliant production of Trainspotting in the Watergate Theatre. Yesterday, they announced details of this year’s production, a Kilkenny take on Willy Russell’s Stags and Hens set in the gents and women’s toilets of the disco where both the bride, Linda, and the groom, Dave, have decided to hold their respective hen and stag nights, not knowing that their other half is at the same place. When Linda’s ex-boyfriend arrives and offers her an escape she is forced with a difficult decision. Den den dennn… Being that Russell’s play is so ingrained with Liverpool’s 80′s culture (his other works Shirley Valentine and Blood Brothers, etc. chronicle a similar working class culture), it will be interesting … There’s more