Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads at Chichester Festival Theatre

Saturday 7 October. Gina, landlady of The King George pub, has a lot on her plate. The England vs Germany World Cup qualifying match is about to start, the pub football team is about to charge in and the TV’s on the blink. Over the next few hours, national defeat looms and xenophobic tensions rise, fuelled by the inarticulate fury of the pub team captain, Lawrie, and the insidious propaganda of right-wing extremist Alan. And while policeman Lee struggles to keep the peace, disillusioned squaddie Mark and Gina’s bullied son Glen are fighting their own demons.

Roy Williams’s ferocious, funny and disturbing play takes aim at what it means to be black, white and English in twenty-first century Britain. Starring Richard Riddell, Kirsty J Curtis and Amelia Hankin designed the costumes.

THE GUARDIAN  ★★★★★ - 'A faultless cast in a frighteningly visceral staging by Nicole Charles'