Stepping Out
a comedy by Richard Harris

4-6 December 2008
Hayes Village Hall
Thursday 7.45pm - TICKETS AVAILABLE
Friday 7.45pm - SOLD OUT
Saturday 7.45pm - TICKETS AVAILABLE

Box Office: 020 8462 5194 (Mon-Sat 9am-6pm)

Stepping Out, which enjoyed a successful West End run, 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. There is ex-professional dancer Mavis, who runs the class; cheerful overweight Sylvia; Andy, a plain do-gooder with no confidence; snobby, but well-meaning Vera; timid Dorothy who works in Social Security; Maxine, attractive, sharp and very shrewd; fat, plain Lynne Rose, the self-styled ‘token spade’, and Geoffrey, the lone male. As the play progresses, the class’s dancing improves to such an extent that by the climax, a grand charity show performance, they have been transformed into triumphant tappers, worthy of any chorus line.

Voted Comedy of the Year by the Evening Standard Drama Awards in 1984.

Characters:

Mavis – Samantha Ellery
Mrs Fraser – Sue Appleyard
Lynn – Natalie Jones
Dorothy – Jill Agnew
Maxine – Gillian Spooner
Andy – Chris Williams
Geoffrey – Mike Ashman
Sylvia – Susie King
Rose – Debbie Fraser
Vera – Alison Bradshaw

Directed by Brian McEwan
Choreography by Jenny Elgar