Red Saturday is a rare play about football (soccer). The author has taken a mythic plot about the decline of the old star and the rise of the new. But he makes it come alive because he invests it with so much plausible detail. He focuses on the waxing and waning fortunes of Terry, a 19 year old midfield player who has come into the team because of injury, and Lee the erratic 31 year old striker facing up to spending his declining years with FC Bruges. Red Saturday was produced by the Paines Plough Theatre Company. The play toured and played at Hamstead’s New End Theatre in the autumn of 1983, and transferred to the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in January, 1984. It was the winner of the Samuel Beckett Award for the Best First Stage Play performed in 1983.
Published by Faber
80 pages
Condition; VERY GOOD unmarked copy