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Fair Play
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.
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.
- GenresPlays
112 pages, Paperback
Published January 14, 2022
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August 2, 2023
I haven't seen this play and it's a very different experience reading and seeing drama obviously! Okay, caveat over! I was feeling kind of meh about this and then after the half way mark it came out of left field and punched me right in the gut! So so interesting, topical and clever about being a woman, the human body in all its mess and all its glory, friendship, love, pressure, dreams, everything with brilliant dialogue which felt so real!
April 3, 2023
Well, I actually saw the play, by our small local English theatre company, starring Susan Akintomide and Lotti Brogan.
I'm not really interested in sports, but the play was great, and the acting was better 😀
I'm not really interested in sports, but the play was great, and the acting was better 😀
February 18, 2024
Not too easy to follow but I guess that just comes with the play format. The story itself was very intriguing and thought provoking. Wish I could see a production of it.
January 5, 2026
This is definitely one of those plays that you have to watch to appreciate it fully but it was an enjoyable read nonetheless.
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