Soccer in the city for Monkeywood

Published: 20 June 2015
Reporter: David Upton

By Far the Greatest Team

Manchester’s Monkeywood Theatre, in association with The Lowry, will be staging the world première of By Far The Greatest Team, four new stories by four Manchester writers (two United and two City fans) which will explore and celebrate what it means to be a football fan in the city.

The production will première at The Lowry, September 17-20.

Told in a game of two halves, the production tells four new stories about identity, community, and belonging and gets to the heart of why the beautiful game has such an impact, season after season.

The imaginative production will see the Quays Theatre transformed into a football stadium, recreating the atmosphere of a match day in the city.

The four new plays will be written by Manchester City fans Ian Kershaw (The Mist in the Mirror, Oldham Coliseum and Channel 4’s Shameless) and Sarah McDonald Hughes (Flesh, Royal Exchange and Once in a House on Fire, The Lowry, Maine Road, BBC Radio 4) and Manchester United fans Andrew Sheridan (award winning Winterlong, Royal Exchange and Soho Theatre) and Lindsay Williams (Dreamers, Oldham Coliseum, Eastenders and Emmerdale).

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