An A-Z of the Beautiful Game – 17th May

I hope you don’t mind me contacting you
about my one-man show, Football Fanatical: An A-Z of the Beautiful Game, but I’m trying to promote a performance at the Terry O’Toole Theatre in North Hykeham as part of the Lincoln Book Festival on Thursday 17th May. Attached please find a few reviews, the latest press release, some song lyrics and poems and a pdf of my flyer.

I live in Lincoln, I report for Talksport and the show started life a couple of years ago in Grainthorpe near Louth. For the last two years, I’ve been performing it in village halls, community centres, libraries and football clubs in Lincolnshire, Hampshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Lancashire via the rural touring network and I’m now starting to find work on the arts centre / smaller theatre / studio theatre circuit after receiving a very encouraging response from audiences, promoters and reviewers. I’ve done the show in theatres and arts centres in places like Sudbury, Derby, Rotherham and Stafford this year.

Essentially, the family show is a light-hearted look at the language used by everyone involved in football. It’s based on the length of a game – roughly two hours including a 15-minute interval – and features local radio commentaries, post-match quotations from players and managers and a few poems and songs about people such as the Beckhams, Sven-Goran Eriksson, Steve McClaren, Jose Mourinho, Wayne Rooney, Theo Walcott and Thierry Henry. I also invite the audience to sing along in a special version of Who ate all the pies? about famous fat footballers and I play the commentaries via a hand-held control from the stage.  

As well as the attached reviews, promoters at village halls at Waters Upton in Shropshire and Stoke Prior in Herefordshire have recently described the show as “a very funny, clever entertainment” and “a farrago of fun about football…a good value performance.”

I hope this gives you a good idea of the show you can expect at North Hykeham on Thursday when I’ll be doing the hour-long version, A Game of One Half. We kick off at 7.30 pm and tickets, priced £6, are available from the box office on 01522-883311 or at the door on the night.

I’d be grateful for any pre-event publicity you can give the show via your club and it would be great if you were able to come.

Many thanks for your time.

All the best

Grahame Lloyd

01522 – 542555 or  07980 – 541899

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