Welcome to the Whatsonstage.com Theatre Club

Girls' Night Out

Princess Theatre, Torquay
From: Thursday, 8th April 2010
To: Saturday, 10 April 2010

Our Review:

Search for tickets

Use the link below to search for Girls' Night Out tickets on your desired date.

We're sorry, it seems that we do not currently sell tickets for this show. Please go directly to the box office.

Synopsis

A story of love, laughter and men in thongs, together with a great pop soundtrack that will have you dancing in the aisles. Jane is preparing for the biggest day of her life and that wouldn�t be complete without a traditional hen night with the girls. Meanwhile Tony and the boys are putting together the final touches of their make or break ladies only show. Both funny and touching, we follow the boys from rehearsals to performance, as they prepare for the forthcoming �Feast of Flesh� contest, which could turn them from has-beens to heroes overnight.

Our Review:

Karen Bussell - 9 April 2010

GREAT theatre it ain’t but Dave Simpson’s Girls’ Night Out has been packing ‘em in since 1996 here and abroad.

The story line is no great shakes: a predictable farce gluing together Chippendale-type performances from the lads.

The heavily pregnant bride Jane (Rachael McGuiness, best known for her live comedy across the north-west) is worse for drink - and she of all people should know that spells disaster - as she sets out on a hen night to cap all hen nights. With ladette sister Sarah (the charismatic Bethany Turner) leading the way, the girls lurch from Auntie’s Southern Comforts and nibbles to the Feast of Flesh spectacular.

Here, tongues loosened by alcopops, secrets spill as Auntie Sue (the ubiquitous Amanda Bellamy perhaps best recognised for her RSC performances and as Rose in Little Dorrit) reveals more than she should – along with her ‘nice but dim’ son Tony (KickOff’s Ian Sharp...

Read more of the review