The Debt Collector

Synopsis

The Debt Collectors mixes money and love with the love of money, as two out of work actors fall into the world of debt recovery. It’s a role they despise but a job they were made for, and they are desperate for cash. But all is not what it seems in this hilarious comedy of unpaid bills, offers of sex and boozy bailiffs! Join the Debt Collectors as they dig into a world of cash and collection and what we will do to avoid it! They were once in The Bill now they’re on your case! Demanding money has never been as funny - they may be in the wrong job, but they are the best in the business! The Debt Collectors - they know where you live, and how much you paid for it! A contemporary comedy about credit, castings and cashing in.

Our Review:

Anne Morley-Priestman - 4 October 2011

The first fruit of the partnership between playwright John Godber and Wakefield’s Theatre Royal is a ripe one – in more than one sense of the word. Two out-of-work actors (swearing like troupers) find a new career, collecting for the distinctly dodgy agency which has been tasked with getting the cash owed to various purveyors of the must-haves of modern consumer society .

On one mission they find themselves backstage in a theatre whose resident producer has obviously gone bankrupt, leaving behind a miscellany of dilapidated flats and props. It just happens to be the theatre in which they once took to the boards in The Dumb Waiter. So part of this is about role-play, part is a sequence of theatrical in-jokes and most of it is a wry commentary on whole layers of a country living on credit, but not paying the bill.

Both Rob Hudson as Spud, the bruiser of the pair – a man who has type-cast himself out of future employment – and [William Il...

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