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A tick-box approach to real concerns and nodding to the crowd disappoint, writes MARY CONWAY
Nick King and Charlotte Beaumont in Fair Play
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Fair Play
Bush Theatre
FAIR Play, the new work by Ella Road famed for her success with The Phlebotomist, takes us into a very current, but rarely explored, world of top-class athletics. Two young women, Ann and Sophie, meet in training, bond and spur each other on, only to see their burgeoning prowess – and with it their relationship – sabotaged by the unfairness of life and factors beyond their control.
It exposes the important role of luck as well as graft in competitive activity.
The play is performed in the round; the stage is adorned with fitness apparatus; the floor is a running track, and much of the early part of the action involves the two characters in brief demonstrations of fitness training and the act of running.
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