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Conceived in a Curry House
Simpson Memorial Hall, Moston
4/5
“ALL that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football,” philosopher and footballer Albert Camus once said and by the end of this play you ought to have a good grasp of everything north Manchester and football.
Mad Theatre’s Conceived in a Curry House tells the story of the community-run football club FC United that emerged out of the take-over of Manchester United by venture capitalists the Glazer family.
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