First look: Charlotte Beaumont and NicK King in Fair Play at Bush Theatre

First pictures have been revealed for Fair Play at the Bush Theatre.

Produced by Bush Theatre in association with Sonia Friedman Productions, the new play from Olivier award-nominated playwright Ella Road runs from 3 December 2021 through to 22 January 2022.

Charlotte Beaumont and NicK King star in a gripping exploration of the underside of women’s athletics, directed by Monique Touko.

When Ann joins Sophie’s running club she’s thrown into a world of regimented training and pure focus. The two girls couldn’t be more different, but soon their shared passion makes them inseparable – dreaming in lanes and lap-times, waking up picturing Olympic medals, each day stronger and faster…

But set head-to-head in the run-up to the World Championships, they find themselves and their friendship put to the ultimate test. As their relationships, their bodies, and their very identities are pulled into public scrutiny, does being exceptional come at too high a price?

Tickets for Fair Play are priced from £20 (concessions available) and can be booked at bushtheatre.co.uk

The production has set and costume design by Naomi Dawson, lighting design by Matt Haskins, sound design and music by Giles Thomas, movement direction by Joseph Toonga, assistant movement supervisor Orin Norbert and costume supervisor Megan Rarity. Casting is by Heather Basten CDG with casting assistant Fran Cattaneo.