Summary
Joe Guy Soho AFTER the popular excesses of Footballers' Wives, what more tempting than for a serious playwright to take a revelatory dip into young footballers' lives? You would expect a writer of Roy Williams's quality to subject this off-shoot of our awful celebrity culture to fierce scrutiny and insights. Yet his disappointing, sometimes rambling narrative, brought to vivacious life in Femi Elufowoju's production, succumbs to sentimentality. It condones and even sympathises with the travails of its cock-sure black football hero.
Ranging from 1997, when Abdul Salis's superbly acted Joe Boateng labours as a teenage waiter, to 2007 when he revels in star footballer status, Joe suffers racism, insecurity and sexual temptation. Yet an enjoyably foul-mouthed scene in a swish hotel where Joe, Mo Sesay's imposingly bellicose Carlton and Joseph Morgan's pretty-boy footballer compete to have their fill of one groupie, washed down with champagne and snorted up with cocaine, exposes a central weakness.See the full content of this document
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Footballer's Fall From Grace ; Theatre
So what if overpaid, well-heeled footballers screw themselves into trouble? ...
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