The Game
A brilliant northern comedy about love, honour, class… and football.
Lancashire. 1913. Match Day! Blackton Rovers is in need of money. Owner, Austin Whitworth, sells his star centre forward – local football hero Jack Metherell – to a rival club on the eve of a crucial match that could see Rovers relegated to the 2nd Division. Will honest Jack do Austin’s bidding when asked to throw the match? Or will he put his professional honour above loyalty to his old club?
From the halcyon days of professional football where players were working class heroes and people were supposed to ‘know their place’ comes a spirited comedy that combines broad northern humour with the passion, pride, prejudice and principles of two football families.
STARRING WENDI PETERS AS MRS METHERELL
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Wendi is best known for her role as Cilla Battersby Brown in Coronation Street and ‘Podger’ Pam Jolly in Bad Girls.
Other television includes Cardiac Arrest, Out of the Blue and film credits include Gyppo and Emily in In Love and War.
Wendi has had been busy over the past year, starting out as a finalist on Celebrity Masterchef. She then toured around Ireland with the one woman play Mrs Whippy, written by Cecelia Ahern – whose other work includes the novel Ps. I Love You - which became the hit 2007 film starring Gerard Butler and Hilary Swank. In the autumn she then performed in the successful sell out tour of Grumpy Old Women: Live alongside Jennie Eclair and Susie Blake – which has recently transferred to the west end. |
