Stepping Out

Swanage Musical Theatre Company (amateur) present “Stepping Out”, a play written by Richard Harris in 1984. It was produced in the West End, London, where it received the Evening Standard Comedy of the Year Award, and on Broadway, New York. It was later made into a film starring Lisa Minelli and Julie Waters.

The play concerns eight individuals from disparate backgrounds and with differing motivations who attend the same weekly tap dancing class in a dingy North London church hall. Despite the students at first treating the classes as social occasions, and showing little co-ordination, they later develop a level of skill and cohesiveness.

The dance routines are the background for the focus of the play, the relationship and interaction of different people.