Broken Time
From: Wednesday, 21st September 2011
To: Sunday, 25 September 2011
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Synopsis
Divided by class and united by passion, Broken Time tells the compelling story of one man’s obsession with the spirit of amateurism and another man’s determination to win at all costs. Set against the maelstrom of late nineteenth-century industrial strife, this resonantly modern clash leaves a rugby star, the Beckham of his day, an unwitting pawn in a ferocious battle for control of a game. In 1889, Monsey Parr was captain of St Helens Recreation Rugby Club and a household name throughout the town, but he wasn't happy. The directors of Pilkington’s, who at the time owned the club, had stopped the working men from playing in the local cup tournament.
Our Review:
Hannah Giles - 23 September 2011
Three Stones Media's production of Broken Time provides much for both fans of rugby and the uninitiated to enjoy. But while Mick Martin’s play scores a try, it doesn’t quite manage the conversion.
Set in the fictitious Yorkshire town of West Broughton during the late 1890s, Broken Time centres on the erosion of amateurism in the sport and the struggle that was taking place in the years preceding the formation of the Northern Union and the creation of rugby league. What drives the conflict is the principle of ‘broken time’, where working men were paid for the wages they lost when taking time off to play rugby, which some viewed as backdoor professionalism.
While rugby originated in the public schools, it was adopted by the working classes, and it is this world that Broken Time portrays. Here, the sport is reserved for the ‘men from the mills’, who take to the rugby field on Saturday afternoons and bec...
Creative
Mick Martin (Author)
Three Stones Media (Producer)
Conrad Nelson (Director)
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