Fair Play

Author:   Ella Road
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:  

9781350291621


Pages:   112
Publication Date:   03 December 2021
Format:   Paperback
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The clocks are set. The line is drawn. They’ve got a chance to be champions. But at what cost? When Ann joins Sophie’s running club she’s thrown into a world of regimented training and pure focus. The two girls couldn’t be more different, but soon their shared passion makes them inseparable – dreaming in lanes and lap-times, waking up picturing Olympic medals, each day stronger and faster… But set head to head in the run up to the World Championships, they find themselves and their friendship put to the ultimate test. As their relationships, their bodies and their very identities are pulled into public scrutiny, does being exceptional come at too high a price? A gripping exploration of the underside of women’s athletics, Fair Play is the new work from Ella Road (The Phlebotomist) – 'the most promising young playwright in Britain' (The Telegraph). This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at Bush Theatre, London, in December 2021.

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Author:   Ella Road
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Methuen Drama
Dimensions:   Width: 12.80cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 19.60cm
Weight:   0.100kg
ISBN:  

9781350291621


ISBN 10:   1350291625
Pages:   112
Publication Date:   03 December 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Ella Road's remarkable play, directed by Monique Touko, is a tender and intimate story of teenage friendship and athletics ... What makes this play remarkable is the way the scale of the political and ethical arguments are held within this pair of teenagers, their legs sick with lactic acid, their minds full of the attention of the press. * Guardian * The writing is stunning ... an exhilarating piece set in the fiercely competitive world of athletics. * WhatsOnStage * A meaty drama about athletics sprints to an exciting climax * Times *


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Ella Road is a writer and actor from London. Her first play The Phlebotomist premiered at the Hampstead Theatre Downstairs in Spring 2018, and transferred to the Main House in Spring 2019. The play was nominated for an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate theatre, and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Ella was a Soho Theatre Young Writer 2017/18, one of the Bush Theatre’s Emerging Writers 2018/19, and was on the BBC Drama Writers Programme 2019/20.

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