Next Door Dance and house present
The Beautiful Game
Some love it, others loathe it, but we can’t avoid it – it’s everywhere! A laugh-out-loud look at our undying obsession with football, celebrating everything from weird match-day rituals to ridiculous armchair punditry. The Beautiful Game explores the highs and lows of football fandom – it may even attempt to explain the offside rule.
Four women deliver a knockout performance in this ballsy, high-energy show which is brimming with nostalgia and set to a backdrop of chant-along hits and a buzzing soundtrack.
Even if football isn’t your thing, this electric, feel-good show will persuade you of its charms.
Following a run at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe and a Live and Local tour, Next Door Dance’s The Beautiful Game is back on the road in spring 2022, with fixtures all around the UK.
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Audience information
Running time/interval length: 55 minutes. There is no interval
Age guidance: 7+
Warnings: None
Photo credit: Daniel Chatterton-James
Production photos: Gavin Mawditt
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‘Physical theatre at its best’ (Seeing Dance)
‘A joyous nostalgia trip’ (Fest Magazine)
‘Amazing, funny, MUST-see show’ (Edinburgh Festival 2019 audience member)
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Next Door Dance are an all-female dance theatre company based in the East Midlands creating performances that are witty, relevant and thought provoking. They love to celebrate the everyday; with tongues planted firmly in their cheeks, their performances leave audiences grinning from ear to ear.
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This performance is presented on tour by house, an initiative delivered by Farnham Maltings and funded by Arts Council England