The Ladies Football Club
Sheffield Crucible
Writer STEFANO MASSINI
Adaptor TIM FIRTH
Director ELIZABETH NEWMAN
Designer GRACE SMART
Movement Director SCOTT GRAHAM
Lighting Designer BEN JACOBS
Sound Designer ELLA WAHLSTRÖM
Video Designer JOE RANSOM
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With World War I forcing men onto the front line to fight, the women of Sheffield take their place in the factories, constructing the bombs and the bullets.
When they start kicking a football around on their lunch breaks, it soon becomes clear that it’s not just positions on a factory floor these women can fill; it’s on the football pitch too. Finding unexpected strength through their new passion and teamwork they end up playing to crowds of over fifty thousand, all the time unaware something is looming that will blow the whistle on their beautiful game.
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Photo Credit: Johan Perrson