![]() ![]() ![]() Smoke machines are carried across the stage and we hear the sound of bustle and steam railway engines. The synchronised group pieces are inspirational. It is exciting and looks dangerous as they make the turns at speed. Scott Ambler has choreographed the runners who prepare, limber up and then fly round the stadium. The opening scene sees modern British Olympic contenders, warming up, give way to men in 1920s athletics kit, poised on starting blocks and running around the track to Vangelis’ beautiful film score. A running track surrounds the stage with some of the audience sitting inside the track, others higher up in the circle and above with advertising banners for Lipton’s Tea and other period products. This is the story of the British athletes at the 1924 Paris Olympiade: one of them Jewish, Harold Abrahams (James McArdle) and the other the son of a Christian missionary, Eric Liddell (Jack Lowden).Įdward Hall directs in a reconfigured Hampstead Theatre with a double revolve stage and the audience circling the stage. Cast in the Trinity Great Court Run (Photo: Manuel Harlan)Īs London prepares to host the Olympic Games, with brilliant timing comes Mike Bartlett’s stage version of David Puttnam’s 1981 film Chariots of Fire. ![]()
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