A new play pokes fun at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry.
The play ‘One Year Off’ is part of Birmingham Fest 2015 and imagines how the country would react if the Prime Minister banned football for one year.
Olly Forrester and Dom Fletcher included attending a sparsely attended Coventry City match at the Ricoh Arena as part of their research for the play and are quoted by the Coventry Observer's Les Reid as saying: “We’re not criticising people. It’s a bigger satire about football and how venues are changing.
“We’re satirising the Ricoh Arena’s ambition to be all things to all people. It could be seen as a bigger satire about how those grounds are becoming so much more than football stadiums and have those high ambitions to be multi-purpose venues.
“It’s poking fun, but is not a direct attack on anyone.”
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