A Corporate setting, ‘Skirts and Suits’ portrays the everyday story of some bosses taking advantage of some women with the promise of promotions, raise in salaries and gifts at the work place while others stick to their principles and hit back at such unscrupulous men.

It also conveys the essence of good customer service and building team work at the work place. The about two hours plot is staged with one office setting but is not at all boring. The story starts with a lady placing a call to a Manager of a company for a possible job opportunity. Without assessing the true qualifications of the lady, the Manager, swept off his feet by the sensous look of the woman when he sets eyes on her, immediately appoints her a supervisor over other more qualified ladies aready working in the Company. Of course, the other ladies will not take this lightly. The new lady is also very full of herself and gets on everyone’s nerves.

The writer of the play and the producer, Nii Commey, said that he started writing at the age of 16 and, to date, he has written about 35 plays. Sixteen of them have been staged. Some of the plays are used by students in Theatre Arts and Literature in the universities for academic purposes. He said that he usually writes about topical socio-economic issues that people may have overlooked or issues that people are taking too seriously and creates humour around them so that people can talk about them without getting offended. He said that he tries as much as possible to get his characters to appeal to as many people as possible in the audience. The cast also interact with their audience as the story unfolds on stage.

Nii Commey has been doing stage productions for about 8 years now. Some of his productions include ‘Romantic Ulcers’ and ‘You may Kiss the Corpse’. Five years ago, it was decided that the productions would be used as an avenue to get people to contribute to helping society, especially women and children.  That was when Laugh for Lives, a corporate entity, began and since then they have been engaged in helping the less privileged in society.

With a first degree in Theatre Arts, Nii Commey also holds a Masters degree in Communication Studies and another Masters degree in Community Development.