What happens when women band together to fight the system? Amidst the current political climate and consumer backlash, it feels like the right time for a revival of Dario Fo’s hilarious 70s farce, Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! Read more …
The classic satire sees one group of women lose patience with low pay and rising prices, and take direct action - and in this new version by comedy genius Johnny McKnight, the action moves to Glasgow and examines where we are now in Scotland.
'We're supposed to be hauling for the good folk of the cooncil estates and whit have you grabbed? Chick peas, refried beans and a tin of green lentils? Who you feeding? Patrick bloody Harvie?’
Low Pay? Don't Pay! is a riotous whirlwind of a play that relies on a strong cast to deliver the razor-sharp comedy alongside astute social commentary- which they certainly achieved!
Its heart is in the right place, and there are a few uproarious scenes.
McKnight's pop culture peppered update of Joseph Farrell's translation couldn't be more of the moment.
The preaching of the message, and the sudden leaps between knockabout to verbal punchlines does not necessarily serve the intentions of the script, and the satire never fully lands, making Low Pay? disjointed, passionate and polemical.
Tron Theatre, Glasgow from Thursday May 2, 2019, until Saturday May 11, 2019. More info: www.tron.co.uk