The Beautiful Game

Set in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, The Beautiful Game follows the fortunes of a group of teenagers, all members of a local Catholic football team, and their friends. In the first half , the football team has a triumphant season against the ever-advancing shadows of the Belfast riots. As the team progresses, so do their love lives. But by the second half, their lives are starting to fall apart. John, the newly married star striker, is imprisoned and turned from potential professional into a new IRA recruit. Meanwhile, his old friend Thomas becomes a manipulative Republican boss whose shady trades with the police lead to his murder. As their community is torn apart, other team members end up dead, exiled or crippled. With soaring music from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton’s compelling script, The Beautiful Game is a hard-hitting reminder of the struggles within Northern Ireland at the time of the exploding troubles.

Act One

• "The Beautiful Game" - Players & Spectators
• "The Boys in the Photograph" - Mary, Girls
• "Clean the Kit" - John, Thomas & Cronies, Mary
• "Don’t Like You" - John, Mary
• "God’s Own Country" - Mary, Protestant Girl
• "The Craic" - Christine, Del
• "The Final (A Game of Two Halves)" - Lads, Girls, Thomas, Ref.
• "The Party" - Lads, Christine, Girls
• "Let Us Love in Peace" - Bernadette, Ginger
• "The Boy in the Photograph (Reprise)" - Mary, Christine, Bernadette
• "Let Us Love in Peace (Reprise)" - Bernadette, Christine, Mary, John, Company

Act Two

• "The Happiest Day of Our Lives" - Mary, John, Girls, Boys
• "All the Love I Have" - John, Mary
• "Don’t Like You (Reprise)" - John, Mary
• "The First Time" - John, Mary
• "I’d Rather Die on My Feet" - Thomas, John
• "God’s Own Country/ The Boys in the Photograph" - Mary, Christine, Del
• "The Selection" - John, Boys
• "John in Prison" - John
• "Dead Zone" - Prisoners
• "If This is What We’re Fighting For" - Mary
• "All the Live I Have (Reprise)" - John, Mary
• "It Will Never End" - Thomas, John
• "The Beautiful Game" - Company