by Alan Bleasdale
'Remember when we were kids - either never out of trouble or never out of the pictures.' Danny Duggan's rough-house business methods and life-style owe more to early influences than to the CBI. But with the bottom falling out of the building game and the Inland Revenue on the doorstep, playing at gangsters is only fun when you're on the winning side.
"A cracking contemporary comedy... acutely sensitive to the frustrations of the 1980s." (Time Out)
"Alan Bleasdale's sharply written play is, you feel, convincingly rooted in a gritty kind of truth... was very much a play of our cruel times." (Daily Mail)