No Pay? No Way! – Royal Exchange Theatre
There is an extremely fine line between success and failure when producing a farce. When done badly, it can quickly degenerate into a series of mistimed entrances and exits with improbable scenarios and absurd coincidences that leave the audience confused and bored. Fortunately, Director Bryony Shanahan knows exactly what she is doing, and with ‘No Pay? No Way!’ has produced a sparklingly funny version of this 1974 play by veteran political writers Dario Fo and Franca Rame.
Antonia (Samantha Power) has just nipped to the local supermarket to pick up the weekly shopping, where she finds herself in the middle of a riotous protest following the doubling in price of food and groceries. She takes advantage of the situation to ‘liberate’ some groceries and persuades her friend Margherita (Ka...