The story of a game, a life, and a man of two halves. This stage adaptation of David Peace's iconic novel about Bill Shankly, Manager of Liverpool FC, was premiered at the Royal Court Liverpool in 2025, with a cast including Peter Mullan.
David Peace is an acclaimed novelist, best known for his Red Riding Quartet (1999-2002), GB84 (2004), The Damned Utd (2006) and Red or Dead (2013).
Phillip Breen is a theatre director whose work encompasses opera, theatre, comedy, musicals, jazz cabaret, large-scale community theatre projects, new work and classics.
As a writer, he has written adaptations of Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald, Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence, Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell and Red or Dead by David Peace.
