Name: Away From Home
Brand: Playdead Press
SKU: 9781910067079
Price: 9.99 GBP
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Away From Home

By (author): Rob Ward, By (author): Martin Jameson

Published by Playdead Press

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£9.99

Format: Paperback
Pages: 69
ISBN: 9781910067079
Publication Date: 11-Mar-2014

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Kyle is comfortable with his life as a male escort until the day he is hired by a premiership footballer and finds himself falling in love. But can Kyle maintain a relationship with a closeted footballer in a country where no top flight players are out? Can he go on pretending that the homophobia endemic in the game is nothing to do with him? Does he know what a relationship means, when, for him, sex has only ever been a transaction? Can he ever tell his friends -- and his family -- the truth? "Away From Home" won two awards at the prestigious Manchester Theatre Awards 2014. It was first shown at the 24:7 festival before transferring to the Jermyn Street Theatre, London and then a UK tour. An edgy, moving and subversively political one-man show, laced with sharp humour, going in for a hard tackle on football's last taboo.

Rob Ward is a writer, performer and co-director of Emmerson & Ward Productions. His 2013 play Away From Home (co-written with Martin Jameson) toured nationally and internationally between 2013 and 2015, picking up the Manchester Theatre Awards for Best New Play and Best Fringe Performance. His 2016 play Gypsy Queen has also toured nationally and internationally since it premiered on the West End (Arts Theatre) and has gained critical acclaim. In 2017 Rob was named one of the British Councils Emerging Artists. Both of these plays dealt with the subject of homophobia and LGBT+ visibility in sport as well as other takes on modern queer identity. Rob has since written Conversations (Digital production commissioned by Curve in 2021) and Love It If We Beat Them (commissioned by Live Theatre) is currently in development.

a singularly brave and rather extraordinary piece of theatre. The Independent