The Thousand Days

60m · Theatre

We To Play Presents The Thousand Days By Callum Murray, Directed by Grace Ward Those of us who doped mostly started in our third year… Everybody has their thousand days; everybody has their choice’. From The Secret Race by Tyler Hamilton. What does it take for a pro cyclist to become a doper? No one starts off wanting to cheat, right? Cyclists do it because they love it. They love to race. They love to test themselves. They want to know just how far and how fast they can go. Clean. But it’s a monumental step-up from racing as an amateur to becoming a professional; adapting to a new and alien environment in which what people say and what they do are not always aligned. Doping in cycling is itself a cycle. As the dopers retire or get banned (or even die), new young riders hungry for success at any price, take their place. How is a neo-pro supposed to both keep his place in the team and sta