“I’ve wasted the whole of my life playing this game. It’s claimed my knees and it occupies every spare synapse in my brain. I’m not even sure I like it anymore…”

The Nightwatchmen: an amateur London cricket team, making up for in enthusiasm what they lack in ability. As they gather on a sunny Sunday to face Bernard and his ethnically diverse and highly talented squad, Will, Thiz, Clive and their team-mates spend the day smoking, drinking tea and discussing love, politics and the correct interpretation of the LBW law.

Richard Bean’s witty new play, The English Game, which explores the modern British psyche and sate of the nation through a simple game of cricket, is getting some good reviews and can be seen this coming week at the Oxford Playhouse.

 

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