Overview
Dedicated to the Rugby League fans of Hull and created for the Hull Truck Theatre Company, this comedy premiered at the 1984 Edinburgh Festival, where it won a Fringe First award and subsequently the 1984 Laurence Olivier Award for Comedy of the Year after a successful run in London. Set “somewhere in the north of England”, it centres on the amateur rugby team from the Wheatsheaf Arms who can only muster a side of four whose pride lies in their unbroken record of defeat.