The Prize
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From the team that presented the multi award-winning Motherland - the hit of the Festival 2008 - the inside track into the true stories behind Olympic success. For some making it to London 2012 has been literally a matter of life and death and the struggle is not over yet. The play draws on interviews with past Olympic medal winners and aspiring first time competitors. Full of sacrifice, tragedy and touching humour these stories are brought to life with dynamic physicality taking the audience on a journey - the inside experience of being an elite athlete striving for the ultimate prize. All ages.
Murmur / Live Theatre.
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The Prize
8 Aug 2012
Steve Gilroy and Richard Stockwell's latest not quite living the Olympic dream
Gold and silver are mere split seconds apart. Hair’s breadths. There’s just as little between Olympians and Paralympians: a ladder that slips; a bout of meningitis; an IED underfoot. Life may not be fair, but – as the London 2012 hopefuls and former…
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C Barbour – 3 Aug 2012, 8:20am
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The Prize is a captivating and entertaining show from starting pistol to finish line. The interview extracts contain some really interesting insights into the ambition and psychology of sportspeople trying to compete at the highest level, and because they are truly presented "warts and all" and juxtaposed so cleverly there are revelations that even the interviewees themselves probably never realised they were making. The performances were all excellent and all the difficult job of keeping all the different interviewees well defined was pulled off seemingly effortlessly. As well as being hugely enjoyable in its own right, at this particular time The Prize also serves to deepen and enhance the experience of watching the Olympics and Paralympics. It is testament to these performances that I plan to watch events I had not previously planned to because the interviewees, as portrayed by the cast, now seem like real acquaintences. Like all good theatre The Prize, therefore, lives on in the mind of the audience. By turns dramatic, hilarious, exhilarating and heart-breaking; The Prize's creative team certainly deserve to be on the podium come the Fringe 2012 medal ceremony.
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