Beating Berlusconi - One Night in Istanbul - A Play of Two Halves
From: Sunday, 7th March 2010
To: Monday, 8 March 2010
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Synopsis
In May 2005 middle-aged Kenny Noonan travels to Istanbul to watch Liverpool play AC Milan in the Champions’ League final. What Liverpool achieved is dramatic legend. What happened to Kenny is stranger than fiction. Based on a bizarre real event - a scouser ends up sitting next to Italy’s Prime Minister. A laugh out loud, story of a man’s attempt to rediscover his belief in himself, his club, and his city - a must see for all comedy lovers and football fans.
Our Review:
8 March 2010
Beating Berlusconi is an unusual play in many ways. It is both very funny and deeply depressing. It panders to, rather than challenges, prejudices. There is no effort to refute the stereotype of Liverpudlians as dishonest Scallies who thrive on defrauding the State or of football fans as lager-fuelled menaces to society.
The title is taken from an incident when, during the Champions’ League Final in Istanbul, debt-ridden Liverpool FC fan Kenny Noonan accidentally gate-crashed a VIP party attended by Silvio Berlusconi. Noonan’s reactions to his team equalising resulted in a confrontation with an offended Berlusconi. This is the climax to a life that sees Noonan involved in many of the major social events that affected his city including the Toxteth riots and deaths at football matches at Haysel and Hillsborough.
The play uses football as a metaphor to examine UK society over the last couple of decades but the a...
Cast
Creative
John Graham Davies (Author)
Turf Love (Producer)
Raffa Productions (Company)
Matt Rutter (Director)
Mike White (Design)
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