<DIV>'<I>Stags and Hens</I> 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' <I>Guardian</I> </DIV><br><DIV> </DIV><br><DIV></DIV><br><DIV>'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' <I>Daily Telegraph </I></DIV><br><DIV><I></I> </DIV><br><DIV></DIV><br><DIV>'Firmly in the centre of the playwright's best achievements: lively, coarse, well-organised, truthful and very funny' <I>Financial Times</I></DIV><br><DIV> </DIV><br><DIV></DIV><br><DIV><I>Stags and Hens </I>premiered at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, in October 1978. This edition was updated to coincide with the Liverpool Royal Court's production in February 2008, and includes a new introduction by the author.</DIV>