Two young women. One track. No finish line in sight.
Australian Premiere: "Fair Play" by Ella Road is a gripping, high-energy two-hander set in the ruthless world of elite athletics. Following two young women on and off the track, the play interrogates ambition, friendship, gender, race, and who gets to decide what “fair” really means. Directed by Emma Whitehead and presented by Lost In Thought Theatre Company, this Australian Premiere fuses rapid-fire dialogue with physical storytelling to deliver an urgent, fiercely human work that speaks far beyond sport.
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Venue: Old Fitz
Address: 129 Dowling Street Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
Date: 6/03 - 21/03
Time: Tues-Fri 7pm, Sat 2pm & 7pm, Sun 5pm
Ticket: $29.00 - $80.00
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Address: 129 Dowling Street Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
Date: 6/03 - 21/03
Time: Tues-Fri 7pm, Sat 2pm & 7pm, Sun 5pm
Ticket: $29.00 - $80.00
Buy / Ticket: https://www.oldfitztheatre.com.au/fair-play
Web: https://www.oldfitztheatre.com.au/fair-play
: https://www.instagram.com/lost_thought_arts/
EMail: the.necessary.noise@gmail.com
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FAIR PLAY by Ella Road
Two young women. One track. No finish line in sight.
"Fair Play" is a blistering, urgent two-hander about ambition, friendship, and the brutal cost of elite sport. Set in the high-pressure world of competitive middle-distance running, the play follows teenage athletes Ann and Sophie as they train, race, and grow up together — until success, scrutiny, and institutional power threaten to tear them apart.
Written by acclaimed British playwright Ella Road ("The Phlebotomist"), "Fair Play" interrogates gender, race, bodily autonomy, and fairness in sport, drawing on real-world debates around eligibility, identity, and who gets to decide what a “level playing field” really is.
Directed by Emma Whitehead in its Australian Premiere, this electrifying production fuses rapid-fire dialogue with physical storytelling to deliver a gripping, emotionally charged work that speaks far beyond the track. At once a coming-of-age story and a political provocation, "Fair Play" asks a vital contemporary question: what do we sacrifice in the name of winning?
“Fair Play is a play about bodies under pressure — from sport, from systems, from expectations. What drew me to it was the way Ella Road refuses easy answers and instead asks us to sit inside contradiction: fairness versus harm, ambition versus care. It feels urgent, human, and absolutely of this moment.
Ella Road has written something razor-sharp and deeply compassionate. The play never offers easy answers — it sits in the discomfort, the contradictions, and the cost of ambition.” Emma Whitehead, Director
FAIR PLAY by Ella Road
Two young women. One track. No finish line in sight.
"Fair Play" is a blistering, urgent two-hander about ambition, friendship, and the brutal cost of elite sport. Set in the high-pressure world of competitive middle-distance running, the play follows teenage athletes Ann and Sophie as they train, race, and grow up together — until success, scrutiny, and institutional power threaten to tear them apart.
Written by acclaimed British playwright Ella Road ("The Phlebotomist"), "Fair Play" interrogates gender, race, bodily autonomy, and fairness in sport, drawing on real-world debates around eligibility, identity, and who gets to decide what a “level playing field” really is.
Directed by Emma Whitehead in its Australian Premiere, this electrifying production fuses rapid-fire dialogue with physical storytelling to deliver a gripping, emotionally charged work that speaks far beyond the track. At once a coming-of-age story and a political provocation, "Fair Play" asks a vital contemporary question: what do we sacrifice in the name of winning?
“Fair Play is a play about bodies under pressure — from sport, from systems, from expectations. What drew me to it was the way Ella Road refuses easy answers and instead asks us to sit inside contradiction: fairness versus harm, ambition versus care. It feels urgent, human, and absolutely of this moment.
Ella Road has written something razor-sharp and deeply compassionate. The play never offers easy answers — it sits in the discomfort, the contradictions, and the cost of ambition.” Emma Whitehead, Director