The Thousand Days
The Bread & Roses Theatre68 Clapham Manor Street, Clapham
Thu 19 Nov · 19:00 · £15
About this event
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.
Follow the thread
A different kind of night
Not the same tradition as the lineage above — a genuinely different thread to pull, if you want one.