Stepping OutPaperback, 1 April 1985

Stepping Out is a warm and very funny play about the lives, laughs and loves

of a group of women (and one man) attending a weekly tap-dance class in a

dingy North London church hall. There is ex-professional dancer Mavis, who

runs the class; cheerfully overweight Sylvia; Andy, a plain do-gooder with

no con dence; snobby but well meaning Vera; timid Dorothy who works

in Social Security; Maxine, attractive, sharp and very shrewd; fat, plain

Lynne; Rose, just here for a good time, and Geoffrey, the lone male. As the

play progresses, the class's dancing improves to such an extent that by the

climax, a grand charity show performance, they have been transformed into

triumphant tappers, worthy of any chorus line.