Playhouse: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

23-27 October.

BAFTA winning and Olivier Award nominated playwright Roy Williams has adapted Alan Sillitoe’s classic novel for the stage and, after touring several cities, it has arrived in Nottingham for a 5-night stint.

The award winning Pilot Theatre Company bring the searing text of class and the criminal justice system to the Nottingham Playhouse. This stunning new production, set in Britain's Olympic Year, exposes the beating heart of a nation, still broken and still divided across class lines.

A long distance race in real time, we follow one runner, alone with his thoughts, becoming part of his journey as his steady running rhythm transports him over a harsh, frost bitten earth. Colin Smith is defiant. He is a young rebel inhabiting the no man's land of detention centres and young offenders’ institutes.

Why, for whom and for what is he running?

It’s a retelling with a contemporary edge. The 2012 youth is now mixed race and the riots of last year provide elements of the class war and anger of Sillitoe’s creation over 50 on from the novel.

A glorious tour de force

 The Independent

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