The Pass

Within moments of the kick off of John Donnelly's play I was gripped, and I remained gripped until the final whistle.

John Donnelly's acerbically witty and horribly gripping new play tackles the topical subject of the homophobia that seems to be entrenched in the culture of football.

An engaging, funny and often dismaying portrait of a power-crazed modern celebrity... Donnelly's writing is wittily observant, and appreciating it requires no great love of football.

Donnelly knows his psychology and, importantly for a play about football and friendship, the details of the game; what's clever is that you don't have to be a fan yourself to understand exactly what's going on.