Sports Play
Play :: show/work:S0786021327, production/tour:T063044962Archive Listings
| 30 Jul 12 to 4 Aug 12 | Sports Play Play :: listing:L1526637296, production:T063044962, show:S0786021327, venue: V179 | Chelsea Theatre Inner London Greater London |
| 23 Jul 12 to 24 Jul 12 | Sports Play Play :: listing:L01016552138, production:T063044962, show:S0786021327, venue: V1892701352 | The Bike Shed Theatre Exeter Devon |
| 19 Jul 12 to 20 Jul 12 | Sports Play Play :: listing:L1529776584, production:T063044962, show:S0786021327, venue: V827 | Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff Glamorgan |
| 13 Jul 12 | Sports Play Play :: listing:L129992842, production:T063044962, show:S0786021327, venue: V986 | The Maltings Berwick-on-Tweed Northumberland |
| 11 Jul 12 | Sports Play Play :: listing:L362504700, production:T063044962, show:S0786021327, venue: V522 | Nuffield Theatre (Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts) Lancaster Lancashire |
An unflinching exploration of the close relationship between sports, nationalism and violence by the Nobel Prize winning author of The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek, receives its English Language premiere on the eve of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Blurring the boundaries between a theatre event and a sports event, punctuated by live reporting of results from the Olympics and elsewhere, actors perform feats of linguistic gymnastics, their capacity to memorise and articulate non-naturalistic, punning and unpredictable lines stretched to the limits.
