[1] Russell adapted it for performance in 2008 as Stags and Hens – The Remix at The Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.
The action is mainly in the gents and women's toilets of the disco where both Linda (The Bride) and Dave (The Groom) have decided to hold their stags and hens nights, not knowing that their other half is at the same place.
The Daily Telegraph said that it "combines comedy with acrid truth in the style Willy Russell has made unmistakably his own... and hits on brilliantly the herd instinct driving both sexes onward and bedward".
The Guardian called it a "bleakly funny and perceptive study of working class misogyny, Puritanism and waste."
The Financial Times however described it as "firmly in the centre of the playwright's best achievements: lively, coarse, well-organised, truthful and very funny.