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The Red Lion

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  3m

Patrick Marber

Small time semi-pro football, the non-league. A haunting and humorous play about the dying romance of the great English game - and the tender, savage love that powers it.

The Red Lion

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    Cast Size
    3m

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Summary

Passion. Loyalty. Salvation. Small time semi-pro football, the non-league. A world away from the wealth and the television cameras. A young player touched with brilliance arrives from nowhere. An ambitious manager determines to make him his own. And the old soul of the club still has dreams of glory. A haunting and humorous new play about the dying romance of the great English game - and the tender, savage love that powers it.

History
The Red Lion was first performed in Dorfman Theatre, the National Theatre, London on 3 June 2015.
YATES – an old man
JORDAN – a young man
KIDD – somewhere in-between
  • Setting

    A semi-professional football club in the south of England.

Media

“... [Marber] is a beautifully insouciant writer of savourable lines.” — The Guardian, Read more

“Marber has found his voice again, and it roars.” — The Telegraph, Read more

“Marber’s play is at its heart a dark, tender and beautifully wrought study in male desperation.” — Time Out, Read more

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Authors

Patrick Marber

Patrick Marber
Patrick Marber was born in London in 1964. He began his career as a writer in 1986. He co-wrote and appeared in a number of radio and television programmes including The Day Today and Knowing Me, Knowing You. In 1995 his first play, Dealer’s Choice, premiered at the National ...
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