Stepping Out

Synopsis

This is a warm and very funny play about the lives, laughs and loves of a group of women (and one man) attending a weekly tap-dance class in a dingy North London church hall. The dancing improves to such an extent that, by the time of the grand charity show performance, they have been transformed into triumphant tappers, worthy of any chorus line.

Our Review:

12 March 2011

It makes fine financial sense for the Oldham Coliseum to stage a tried-and-tested crowd-pleaser and this revival of Stepping Out, directed by Kevin Shaw, ertainly has the requisite bums-on-seats draw but there’s the added bonus of sneaking in a soupcon of political commentary. First staged in 1984 when Margaret Thatcher was at the height of her powers, Richard Harris’ ostensibly light-hearted comedy sneaks many Cold War concerns under the radar.

Stepping Out is ensemble piece revolving around a tap class in a church hall, it has the mix of bawdy humour and melodrama that informed later films and plays – all guaranteed cash-cows – such as Brassed Off, The Full Monty and Calendar Girls. It’s a story told in the broadest of strokes and clich&eac...

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