There are many plays and productions that do the rounds in local theatre, many of them you can imagine being filmed and having the general public fall in love with the story as it is played out on a big screen at their local cinema.
Football and cinema, a match made in heaven, and in adopted Liverpool playwright Bob Farquhar’s Kicking Off, the beautiful game just got ugly and outrageously funny.
Based upon the play God’s Official, which was a huge hit at the Unity Theatre in the June of 2012, Robert Farquhar and director Matt Wilde are inviting cinema goers to attend a screening of Kicking Off Picturehouse@F.A.C.T on April 24th.
Starring Warren Brown, Greg McHugh, Alistair Petrie and Danielle Bux, Kicking Off starts with the most important game of the season. Loyal fans Wigsy and Cliff watch in trepidation as their football team score the goal that will save them from relegation. Victory is bliss as a chorus of supporters chant and cry with elation.
However, this frenzy of happiness quickly turns ugly as the referee disallows the deciding goal. With their hearts and fists pumping, adrenalin running and fury racing through their bloodstream, the fans take matters into their own hands and Cliff makes the fatal mistake of planning while intoxicated. Wigsy, a confirmed idiot, follows through with the said plan and in the darkest hours of the night he commits a crime that will cause chaos and catastrophe for him and his best mate Cliff. Kicking Off is cleverly filmed with split screen shots and slow motion montages. The characters are lovable thugs who will leave audiences laughing and grimacing at their lack of common sense.
A masterstoke of a play which will no doubt be one of the funniest films of the year and it all comes from the mind of one of the men behind the fantastic Big Wow.
Kicking Off will be screened at Picturehouse@F.A.C.T. ON April 24th at 18.30pm. Tickets for this event are on sale now at the Picturehouse Box office and are priced at £10.50.
At this screening there’ll be a Q&A with the director Matt Wilde and writer Bob Farquhar.