The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

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About This Show

In this stage adaptation of Alan Sillitoe’s classic short story, award-winning British playwright Roy Williams brings the young, defiant Colin Smith into the 21st century.

Colin, with few prospects in life, finds himself in a prison school for criminal activity. He turns to long distance running as an escape, only to have the school exploit him for his talent, offering him a possible way out. Will he run his race for them, or for his independence?

Show Details

Dates: Opening Night: January 8, 2014 Final Performance: February 9, 2014

Theatermania Review

| | January 21, 2014
Roy Williams brings his stage adaptation of Alan Sillitoe’s short story to Atlantic Theater Company.

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