![]() ![]() The play is closer to the book than it is to the film, inasmuch as it covers a much longer time-span. But it blew me away! (So much so that I went to see it a second time on my actual birthday, taking the rest of the family.) And while the film had a reasonably-sized cast and many extras, the play had just four actors. The arena is tiny, with just 46 seats packed around three sides. ![]() I didn’t even know that there was a stage version until my Arsenal-mad son (yes, I accept full responsibility) took me to see the production at The Hope Theatre as a surprise early birthday present. ![]() I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve watched it – at the cinema, on VHS and then on DVD. Four years later came the film, with Colin Firth and Ruth Gemmell, directed by David Evans. When it was published in 1992, I immediately bought it and devoured it. There is much with which I identify in Nick Hornby’s first book, Fever Pitch. A cast of four actors, yet multiple characters, succeeded in conveying the passion, the madness, the humour and the frustrations of being a football fan, in a way that did true credit to Hornby’s original. ![]() The tiny but perfectly formed Hope Theatre in Islington has just produced a stage version of Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby’s memoir of how he fell in love with football and Arsenal Football Club. ![]()
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