Fit and Proper People
From: Friday, 7th October 2011
To: Saturday, 5 November 2011
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Synopsis
Casey Layton is back home. She's here to sort her club out and plans to get them back in the Premier League. Make it global. They have some problems to solve. The solution is obvious. Money. And Casey knows where to get it. Set in the world of Championship football; FIT AND PROPER PEOPLE takes a hard look at our beautiful game. Transforming the theatre into a football stadium with real turf, floodlights and constant media coverage, Georgia Fitch exposes the backstage dealings that manufacture our national heroes and addresses the very topical question of who is running our social and cultural institutions.
Our Review:
13 October 2011
Football is huge, period. Worldwide there are millions of teams, all trying to score success. Fit and Proper People is Georgia Fitch’s latest foray into the world of British football after co-writing The Footballer’s Wife in the 1990s.
For a limited time, the Soho Theatre is transformed from its traditional proscenium arch to a miniature football stadium in-the-round, complete with real turf, neon advertising strips, screens displaying live feedback and snippets of games, floodlights, and witty billboards questioning, “WAGS: What Do They Want?”
In fact, the entire framework of the play - from the programmes that feature character profiles, the multipurpose, detailed set itself, and the pies-and-pints being sold during the interval - is incredibly well conceived. The problem with Fit and Proper People, a collaboration between Soho and the RSC, is that the play is not.
Centred around footballers’ agent Case...
Latest User Review
Cassox - 25 October 2011:
Dear lord. This is horrible play-writing that should have had a dramaturge on it rather than budget for a set. It suffers in the same way as Rupert Gould's DECADE in so far as the material is so trite you have to throw singing and dancing at it and hope that nobody notices (in F&PP's case, an astro turf pitch, some video and a naked lady). Bad naughty theatre. avoid....
Creative
Georgia Fitch (Author)
Soho Theatre (Producer)
Royal Shakespeare Company (Producer)
Steve Marmion (Director)
Tom Piper (Design)
Ben Ormerod (Lighting)
Gregory Clarke (Sound)
Douglas O'Connell (video) (Design)
Spencer Soloman (Choreographer)
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