‘The Red Lion’ is a gripping changing-room drama written by multi-award-winning writer Patrick Marber and was a smash-hit in the West End. The play takes us into the heart of a struggling semi-pro-league football club trying to make ends meet. It’s a world far from the glamour, millionaires, celebrities and 24-hour media attention of the Premier League.

Things look up when a gifted young player appears out of nowhere, but he soon finds himself stuck between the conflicting ambitions of the kit man – a former club legend, who sees him as the key to returning to former glory days – and the manager, desperate to deliver success with his mind on the money. Loyalty, trust, morals and friendship are pushed to the very edge, leading them to ask is this really the opportunity everyone’s been waiting for?

This brilliant, sensitive and funny play takes us beyond the pitch and into the changing room where banter, laughter, despair and raw emotions are exposed, relationships explode and conflict simmers between three generations as they fight for their individual goals and obsessions, desperate with the want to be a part of something.

Alastair Natkiel joins this New Wolsey Theatre production of The Red Lion playing the role of Kidd.