Pedal Pusher Explained

Pedal Pusher
Characters:Lance Armstrong, Jan Ullrich, Marco Pantani
Genre:Sport, drama, biography
Subject:A Story of the Tour de France
Setting:a hotel room, road races
Premiere:July 2009
Place:Cavendish Gate
London
Orig Lang:English

Pedal Pusher is a play written by the English director and playwright, Roland Smith. Pedal Pusher revolves around the Tour de France in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It was developed from dialogue gleaned from interviews, biographies and archive footage.[1] It premiered at London's Cavendish Gate Theatre in July 2009, starring Tom Daplyn, Josh Cass, Alexander Guiney and Graham O'Mara, directed by Roland Smith and produced by Theatre Delicatessen.

Plot

Pedal Pusher begins with Marco Pantani lying dead in a hotel room. The play goes on to describe a detailed account[2] of the great rivalry, and achievements, of the three cycling legends – Armstrong, Ullrich and Pantani – and each of their individual struggles – Pantani's horrific 1995 crash and struggle with drugs,[3] Ullrich's depression and subsequent drug allegations[4] and Armstrong's fight against cancer.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Tamara Gausi . Pedal Pusher . . London . 2031 . 117 . 23 July 2009 . A show about three world-famous cyclists performed on a couple of plastic chairs may not sound like everyone's idea of a good time, but you needn’t be a cycling nerd to enjoy ‘Pedal Pusher’. .
  2. http://road.cc/content/review/5704-theatre-delicatessen-pedal-pusher Road.cc review of Pedal Pusher which describes the attention to detail from a cycling perspective
  3. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2004/mar/07/cycling.features The long, lonely road to oblivion – an article about Marco Pantani's life
  4. https://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A12460303 An article about Jan Ullrich on the BBC website
  5. http://tcrc.acor.org/lance.html An in-depth interview with Armstrong about his battle with cancer