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The Game (play)

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The Game
Written byHarold Brighouse
Date premiered1916
Place premieredEngland
Original languageEnglish

The Game is a play by Harold Brighouse, first published in 1920 as one of Three Lancashire Plays, the other two plays being The Northerners and Zack.

The play is centred on a fictional football team, Blackton Rovers, their star player Jack Metherell and the family of club owner Austin Whitworth.[1]

In 1920 the play was adapted into a film The Winning Goal directed by G.B. Samuelson. Professional footballer Jack Cock appeared as himself in the film.

It was revived by Northern Broadsides in 2010 after a period of near oblivion. Barrie Rutter, the company's artistic director, failed to find a copy of the script in Britain. He finally found one in a Canadian university library. It is now available from Samuel French Ltd.[2]

References

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  1. ^ The Game by Northern Broadsides
  2. ^ Northern Broadsides (2010) Programme for The Game