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The Nightwatchmen: an amateur London cricket team, making up for in enthusiasm what they lack in ability. As they gather on a sunny Sunday to face Bernard and his ethnically diverse and highly talented squad, Will, Thiz, Clive and their team-mates spend the day smoking, drinking tea and discussing love, politics and the correct interpretation of the LBW law…

Headlong Theatre presents Richard Bean’s hilarious and penetrating new play, exploring the modern British psyche through the powerful lens of a simple game of cricket. At once brilliantly funny, true and touching, The English Game is, in the same moment, a timely and revealing look at the political and social tensions which underpin modern society.

Asking pertinent questions about race, sexuality, friendship and what it means to be English in 2007, the play combines comedy and theatricality to wonderful effect and cements Bean’s reputation as the natural heir to the two Davids, Hare and Storey.

“A marvellously funny and humane dramatist” THE DAILY TELEGRAPH on Richard Bean

“A director of visceral power” THE GUARDIAN on Sean Holmes

Cast includes Tony Bell, Peter Bourke, Rudi Dharmalingham, Robert East, Andy Frame, John Lightbody, Trevor Martin, Ifan Meredith, Sean Murray, Marcus Onilude, Fred Ridgeway, Jamie Samuel & Howard Ward

Contains some strong language - most suitable for ages 16 plus
Presented by Headlong and Guildford's Yvonne Arnaud Theatre

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