‘Stags and Hens takes place in the Gents and Ladies loos of a tacky Liverpool club, where Dave and Linda have decided, unbeknownst to each other, to hold their stag and hen parties . . . a bleakly funny and perceptive study of working-class misogyny, puritanism and waste’ Guardian
‘Combines comedy with acrid truth in the style Willy Russell has made unmistakably his own … and hits off brilliantly the herd instinct driving both sexes onward and bedward’ Daily Telegraph
‘Firmly in the centre of the playwright’s best achievements: lively, coarse, well-organised, truthful and very funny’ Financial Times