'...put your hands together for Sheffield's very own, born down the Eccy Road, in S11, he's in heaven, he's in the second round, he's in his own town, not wearing a dressing gown, he's the son of his folks, it's Dylan Spokes!' Dylan isn't your typical snooker player. He's a vegetarian, for starters. This is the biggest week of his life and everybody wants a piece of him - his ex-con Dad, local gangster Waxy Chuff and the snooker corruption squad.

Author Biography

Richard Bean won the George Devine Award 2002, the Pearson Award for Best New Play 2002, the Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play 2005 & 2011, and the Evening Standard Award for Best Play 2011. Oberon Books publishes his Great Britain, Pitcairn, The English Game, Pub Quiz is Life, The Big Fellah, The God Botherers, Harvest, Mr England, Smack Family Robinson, Toast, The Mentalists, Under the Whaleback, England People Very Nice, In the Club, One Man, Two Guvnors and versions of David Mamet's House of Games, Moliere's The Hypochondriac and Dion Boucicault's London Assurance.