Lost Thought: Fair Play
8 March @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm AEDT

Fair Play is a blistering, urgent two-hander about ambition, friendship, and the brutal cost of elite
sport. Set in the high-pressure world of competitive middle-distance running, the play follows teenage athletes Ann and Sophie as they train, race, and grow up together — until success, scrutiny, and institutional power threaten to tear them apart.
Fair Play interrogates gender,race, bodily autonomy, and fairness in sport, drawing on real-world debates around eligibility, identity, and who gets to decide what a “level playing field” really is.
This electrifying production fuses rapid-fire physical storytelling to deliver a gripping, emotionally charged work that speaks farbeyond the track. At once a coming-of-age story and a political provocation, Fair Play asks a vitalcontemporary question: what do we sacrifice in the name of winning?
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