Stags and Hens

"Stags and Hens takes place in the Gents and Ladies loos of a tacky Liverpool club, where Dave and Linda have decided, unbeknownst to each other, to hold their stag and hen parties … a bleakly funny and perceptive study of working-class misogyny, puritanism and waste" (Guardian)"Combines comedy with acrid truth in the style Willy Russell has made unmistakably his own … and hits off brilliantly the herd instinct driving both sexes onward and bedward" Daily Telegraph"Firmly in the centre of the playwright's best achievements: lively, coarse, well-organised, truthful and very funny" Financial TimesStags and Hens premiered at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, in October 1978.