The Club-A-Go-Go, run by Eric ‘Rubber legs’ DeVene,
a faded rock star, is where "the action is" on Saturday night,
which means chatting-up, the boasting, the heartaches - in fact, all the
highs and lows of teenage emotions. A knowing and affectionate look back
to the 60s, with a fast-moving score of doo-wop, soft rock, and many
laughs (and a few reminiscent sighs) along the way! It’s Saturday Night
at the provincial "Club A-Go-Go" and three blokes and four birds
are out on the pull. The girls, chalk-faced, pale lipped and lacquered to
perfection are desperate to look like Twiggy, Sandy Shaw or Dusty
Springfield. The lads in their button-down collars and leather caps are
all would-be Beatles or embryo Donovans. However, beneath the girls’
skimpy Mary Quant and St Laurent copied dresses beat virginal Barbara
Cartland hearts, while inside the lads’ cool, hipster trousers lurk the
impulses which have driven adolescents to distraction since the dawn of
time.
Sue is going out with Gary, who chats up Penny and any
other bit of stuff that looks his way. Sharon fancies Rick who fancies
Sharon but can’t pluck up courage to tell her because she hasn’t told
him. Eddie fancies Bridget who doesn’t fancy anyone. And so, watched
over by ageing rocker Eric (Rubber-legs) De Vene, the club’s
seen-it-all, done-it-all owner, we follow then as they wend their way
through teenage sexual mores as rigid and predictable as any New Guinea
tribesman’s initiation rights.
Music style is an electric cross-section of famous 60’s
numbers – from Cliff Richard and the Shadows to Bob Dylan, Rolling
Stones and the Beatles.
This Heather Brothers’ homage to the Swinging Sixties
music was a smash-hit success when presented at the King’s Head Theatre
and transferred to the Arts Theatre, London, where it enjoyed a long run.
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