Russel has an ear for dialogue and an eye for the ironies of life, especially when his characters are following petty conventions. His keen insight makes 'Stags and Hens' his best play after 'Educating Rita'. The ending is neatly left open, but the fatal words "who'd be married today if we took notice of how we feel?" stay behind to haunt us. So what do you think, can you imagine having a Sten Party together with your partner instead of a traditional hen do? Or perhaps you will decide to do both and enjoy the best of both parties!

Russell was born in Whiston, Liverpool and grew up in a working class family. After leaving school with one O-level he first became a ladies' hairdresser then ran his own salon. Following that he undertook a succession of jobs, as well as writing songs which were performed in local folk clubs. At the age of 20 he returned to college and University, and subsequently became a teacher in Toxteth. Around this time he also became interested in writing drama after seeing John McGrath's play 'Unruly Elements'. Newly Wed’s to be – Dave and Linda – unbeknownst to each other, have both decided to hold their Stag and Hen Parties in the same venue. I gather I performed a really weak version of this monologue, but in my voice lessons with my other lecturer, I performed it really well with a much stronger accent!! So although it's definitely not suitable for auditions, it's definitely a monologue I want to keep to hand for the future, because it shows people a bit more of what I can do on stage!! The character in the monologue is called Bernadette, and of course, she is one of the hens. Bernadette is a blunt, loud and bossy character. She is married with children which means we can assume she is about 25 up. She is quite similar to perhaps my character from Man Of Mode, a restoration play, as she tells it how it is; she has no boundaries and will just say what she thinks. This just makes her character more comical especially with the mix of a bit of drunk acting! This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.It was originally written in 1978 for television and drama students of the then- Manchester Polytechnic, as an in-house television production. It was first published as a script in 1986 in a collection with Educating Rita and Blood Brothers. [1] The play is set in a trashy 1970s disco in Liverpool, England. The action is mainly in the gents and women's toilets of the disco where both Linda (The Bride) and Dave (The Groom) have decided to hold their stags and hens nights, not knowing that their other half is at the same place. When Linda's ex-boyfriend, Peter, arrives this causes an uproar between Linda and Dave's friends and when Linda's hen party get a say in all whats happening the two groups gang together to stop Linda taking up the offer of an escape with her ex Peter she is then forced with a difficult decision – to stay or to go. [4] [2] Characters [ edit ] Pit your female friends against your partner’s mates with an assault course. The guys won’t know what they’re in for! You could make this super competitive by all wearing Team Bride or Team Stag t-shirts. If both the bride and groom are big HP fans, then why not drag all your besties along to the Warner Bros Studio Tour near London?

Escape rooms are a really popular Sten Do activity as they’re well suited to lots of different players and can be done all over the country. Then there’s a twist. Apparently there’s a button in these booths, where if both people push it they can reveal the identity of the person on the other side, as the wall becomes see through like a window. You can buy a Murder Mystery game with everything you need all organised → here. 12. Harry Potter Studio Tour Thirdly, consider whether you and your partner would be happy to forgoe the traditional single-sex stag and hen parties and instead just have one big event together. The one-stop destination for all the hen fun you could ever need. Get the vocal cords ready for some karaoke classics, get competitive with a round of prosecco pong or limber up to throw your best shot in their dart or axe lanes.

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BOOM BATTLE BAR has 27 venues across the UK including Manchester, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Birmingham, Exeter and several in London including a venue in the heart of Soho on London’s Oxford St. She said one of the days all the girls on the hen decided to go one way, and the boys on the stag decided to go another. One of the girls with the hens got “super drunk” and went into a booth with a glory hole. Being drunk, the girl just decided to give head to the guy on the other side of the wall through the hole. She is played by a tall actress which makes the whole relationship with the midget so much more comical

Not only is our service completely free to use, as we are based on the Magaluf strip, we are here to help should you have any questions while in the resort or before you come. STAGS AND HENS takes place in the Ladies and Gents Toilet’s of a decaying 1980’s Liverpool Dancehall. Who doesn’t love a day at a theme park? This is one that is sure to keep both the stags and the hens happy and you’ll have a lot of fun and bonding time as you take on the likes of Oblivion as a group. Like I said, I performed this monologue really recently to my voice class, and annoyingly it went so, so much better than it did for this assessment! I felt like the accent was a lot clearer and I sustained it throughout the entire monologue better than I had done for Sally. But I also made Bernadette a much larger and louder character! I was too reserved and going into Issie when performing it for Sally, but for Karen I became the character a lot more. I think this was because I had the class as my audience. I know I definitely have an element of wanting to make people laugh and because I'am relatively confident with doing this within my class, I felt like I could really just go for it and really over do the accent and the drunkeness and the talking to the midget. It also helped a lot that I got a lot of audience reactions from doing all this...the monologue is meant to be funny so it helped that I got the class laughing; although it did put me off my lines for a second or so! I was so annoyed with how my performance of this monologue went in comparison to when I performed it for Karen, but I think I know understand that I work better when working off of people. In this case, I had the audience to work off, as soon as they were laughing and reacting, I knew I could go further with it. But with Sally, I had no reaction (and I can expect to get no reaction from a proper audition situation) which gave me no indication as to make more of it! I think this counts for me outside of acting as well, which is interesting.Situated in the scenic rural area of Bathgate and within travelling distance of both Glasgow and Edinburgh, Lothian Glamping is the perfect destination for a unique holiday experience away from home and its luxurious family pods are perfect for every occasion. You could book a class that is suited to the bride & groom’s favourite cuisine, for example a sushi class or pasta-making class. 8. Indoor Skydiving Willy Russell's "comedy of convenience" is set in the toilets of a seedy scouse club and aims to provide a stomach-lining view of stag and hen parties which accidentally coincide. The result is not for the squeamish, neither is it for those without a sense of humour. Willy Russell's Stags and Hens is a magnificently vulgar assault on the threadbare idyll of young love and marriage. An engaged couple unwittingly roll up at the same seedy club for their stag/hen parties. Russell is accurate and affectionate, with occasional wonderfully surrealistic flights of fancy, improbably triggered off by tedious surburban paraphernalia like the accoutrements the couple is supposed to need for the simple business of coffee-making.

Find sources: "Stags and Hens"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( July 2012) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Both the husband and wife to be hold their stag and hen parties in the same pub. This means that the play is full of alcohol, mistakes, men and woman. It's a really fun and witty play!! Whether your sten group are beer drinkers or more the G&T kind, there are plenty of beverage-centric tours and experiences for you to enjoy together. If you think you might feel like you’ve missed out on having separate events, then you could be super extra and just do both!Russell adapted the play into a TV movie called Dancin' Thru the Dark, which was filmed in 1990. Plot You’ll all get kitted out in fetching jumpsuits (imagine the group selfies) and then you’ll learn how to skydive in a huge air tunnel tube indoors.