Summary
"THEY dared to dance!" screamed the legend on the posters for quintessentially 1980s movie, Footloose. Bully for them. Born in Reaganite USA, it made Kevin Bacon a star and furthered the case for the sort of power-chord stadium rock The Darkness satirise so well. Apparently based on a true story of a hick town so backwards that dancing was banned, the stage show sticks to the same tight- trousered routine. In going for the lucrative, legitimised nostalgia market, however, it can't decide if it's a post-Grease cartoon or something deep as well as macho.
When city boy Ren and his just-dumped mom Ethel upsticks for small-town Bomont, both get more than they bargained for. It is a place ruled by the rod of the Rev Shaw Moore, a man fond of quoting Walt Whitman, and for whom the merest hint of a soft-shoe shuffle is a step away from free love on the sabbath.See the full content of this document
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Theatre Footloose, Playhouse, Edinburgh. 3/5 Stars
Ren, the dirty dog, reads Kurt...
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