Original Theatre Online presents unique theatrical event STUMPED this Autumn

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The multi-award-winning Original Theatre Online presents, live from the Home of Cricket, Shomit Dutta’s darkly comic new play Stumped on 10 September, celebrating two great men of theatre and their love for the sport.

Live streaming from Lord’s Cricket Ground, Stumped will star Stephen Tompkinson (Brassed Off, Drop The Dead Donkey, DCI Banks, Wild at Heart) as Samuel Beckett and Andrew Lancel (Coronation Street, The Bill) as Harold Pinter.

Before Samuel Beckett wrote his seminal works Waiting for Godot and Endgame, he was a cricketer: he is still the only Nobel prize winner to feature in the pages of Wisden as a first-class player. His good friend and fellow Nobel prize-winning author, Harold Pinter, whose best-known works include The Birthday Party, The Dumb Waiter and The Homecoming, described cricket as ‘the greatest thing that God created’. This brilliantly witty new play is a capricious take on what the friendship between these two great men may have looked like, as well as being a tribute to their writing and their love of the game.

Writer Shomit Dutta said: “I’m thrilled that my play Stumped will be performed at Lord’s, the Home of Cricket, produced by the wonderful, awarding-winning Original Theatre Company. I can't wait to see the play brought to life by two highly skilled and talented actors.”

The production is directed by Guy Unsworth, with set and costumes by David Woodhead, sound by Dominic Bilkey, and composition by Sophie Cotton.

To book for Stumped live streamed from Lord’s on 10 September or on demand from 27 September 2022, please click here.