A Fistful of Collars

Synopsis

Dry cleaning is a simple business - people bring in their clothes, they get cleaned and then given back. But did you ever wonder why it takes so long? Pressing Matters is a drycleaners with a difference. As soon as the latest little number from Cricket is brought in by a customer the bright sparks behind the counter will have it on the rack at Foxy Frocks, their exclusive dress hire shop. It’s the only cleaners in town where the clothes work harder than the staff! There is only one problem - the girls’ landlord wants to up the rent. Well, two problems, because they’ve knocked out a policeman. Well, three because they’ve accidentally kidnapped Colleen Rooney. And the unconscious girl with the gun in a briefcase that doesn’t belong to them is a bit of a worry...

Our Review:

28 April 2010

Fred Lawless delves deep into the stereotypes affiliated to Liverpool in his new comedy play A Fistful of Collars, mixing fashion with crime and scenarios that fall onto the brink of the absurd.

Set in a dry cleaners in Wavertree, two sisters Eileen (Eithne Browne) and Pat (Pauline Daniels), along with employees Leona (Lindzi Germain) and Billy (Lenny Wood), find themselves in a tricky situation once they take the decision to turn the business into a dress hire shop.

The plan all seems simple and straight forward but they can’t avoid the one single problem facing them. Landlord Curtis Jones (Jake Abraham) wants to increase the rent and uses his sexy assistant Sally (Suzanne Colins) to bother the cleaners for it.

The comedy is brought through the rubbery expressions of Wood as the thick yet not-as-stupid-as-you-think character Billy, and the fantastic Daniels whose comic timing is razor sharp.

The cleaners and Billy are soon the talk of the...

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