The playwright of football play Dear England has announced plans to alter the ending of the show depending on the outcome of this summer’s Euros. After its debut at London’s National Theatre last June, Dear England will return to the stage next spring before a four-week run at the Lowry in Salford. Later this month, the quadrennial European men’s football tournament kicks off in Munich with 24 teams battling for the win.
If the England team is victorious, it will likely lead to a rewrite of the play, which tells the story of the squad on their way to the 2022 World Cup under manager Gareth Southgate . “I don’t want to jinx it, but in terms of the talent we have this feels like a once-in-a-generation opportunity to bring it home at last,” writer James Graham told The Guardian . “I’ll be changing the play depending on what happens, and I don’t quite know what that will look like.
” In the play, the action concludes after Harry Kane misses a penalty against France, bringing the team’s hopes to a heartbreaking close. However, England are among the favourites to win after beating Bosnia at Monday’s warmup game (3 June) and ahead of facing Iceland at Wembley on Friday 7 June . Graham added: “We programmed the original play before the Qatar World Cup, and we knew the tournament would be the third act of the play.
“In the end, it was Kane missing the penalty and repeating the fate of his mentor, but this time there were mechanisms in place to support him. I.
