Leeds-based Red Ladder Theatre Company will visit The Courtyard with award-winning playwright Anders Lustgarten's stage adaptation of The Damned United.
Lustgarten has adapted David Peace’s novel for Red Ladder Theatre Company, which presents this critically acclaimed stage production of the compelling best-seller about Brian Clough’s disastrous 44-day period as manager of Leeds United.
Directed by Red Ladder’s artistic director Rod Dixon, a company of three - Luke Dickson, David Chafer and Jamie Smelt - take audiences up-close to the sweat, fury and power-struggles from pitch-side and inside the flawed but brilliant mind of ‘Old Big'ed’. The story of a troubled genius slamming up against his limits, The Damned United brings to life the beauty and brutality of football, the working man’s ballet.
The rights for The Damned United were donated by David Peace to Red Ladder Theatre Company for £3.68 (a penny for each page in the novel) in 2014, as a show of support for the Leeds-based radical theatre company when it received a 100 per cent cut to Arts Council Funding. The production premiered as a sell-out co-production with West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2016, and has been freshly re-approached as a small-scale production for its first tour of the UK.
The Damned United will be at The Courtyard on Saturday, May 19 at 7.30pm. To book, call the box office on 01432 340555 or visit courtyard.org.uk.
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