Running for Glory

Running for Glory prepares Kent for the sporting year ahead

As we enter the year of the London Olympics an new theatre production will be touring Kent in celebration.

Similar to the classic feature film Chariots of Fire, the new play entitled Running for Glory, is set to tour Kent will explore the personalities and events leading up to the 1924 Paris Olympics, when an elite group of British athletes blazed their way to glory.

Young track stars Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell could not have been more different as sportsmen and individuals.

While Abrahams was highly ambitious, becoming one of the first exponents of professional training, Liddell won astonishing victories with an unco-ordinated running style that should have left him at the back of the field.

Written by Philip Dart, Running for Glory offers a unique blend of theatre and sporting spectacle, recreating all the excitement of an Olympic race for the small stage.

Movement sequences are directed by acclaimed choreographer Lawrence Evans, whose credits include work for the Royal National Theatre and the Unicorn Theatre in London.

The production will tour village halls and small theatres and is supported by funding from Arts Council Lottery funding and Kent County Council.

For more information call 01843 587950.

Tour dates include:

Saturday, February 25 - Temple Ewell VIllage Hall - Dover

Tuesday, February 28 - Selling Village Hall - Faversham

Wednesday, February 29 - Herne Bay Little Theatre - Herne Bay

Thursday, March 1 - Blue Town Heritage Centre - Sheerness

Friday, March 2 - Tower Theatre - Folkestone

Saturday, March 3 - Hartlip Village Hall - Sittingbourne

Sunday, March 4 - Theatre Royal, Margate - Margate

Wednesday, March 7 - Woodchurch Memorial Hall - Ashford

Thursday, March 8 - Rodmersham Village Hall - Sittingbourne

Friday, March 9 - Biddenden Village Halls - Ashford

Saturday, March 10 - Saltwood Village Hall - Hythe

Sunday, March 11 - Ash Village Hall - Canterbury

Tuesday, March 13 - Bossingham Village Hall - Stelling Minnis, Canterbury

Wednesday, March 14 - Blackham Village Hall - Tunbridge Wells

Thursday, March 15 - Brook & Hinxhill Village Hall - Ashford

Friday, March 16 - St. Nicholas Church - New Romney

Wednesday, March 21 - Mountbatten Hall - Mersham, Ashford

Sunday, March 25 - Higham Memorial Hall - Rochester

Wednesday, March 28 - Shepherdswell Village Hall - Eythorne, Dover

Thursday, March 29 - Brasted Village Hall - Sevenoaks

Friday, March 30 - Southfleet Village Hall - Dartford

Saturday, March 31 - Kent Life - Maidstone

Sunday, April 1 - The Astor Community Theatre - Deal