Working Progress

Kyle is comfortable with his life as a gay male escort until the day he is hired by a premiership footballer, and finds himself falling in love.

But can Kyle maintain a relationship with a closeted footballer in a country where not one pro player is out? Can he go on pretending that the homophobia endemic in the game is nothing to do with him? Does he know what a relationship means, when, for him, sex has only ever been a transaction? Can he ever tell his friends – and his family – the truth?

An edgy, moving and subversive one man show laced with sharp humour going in for a hard tackle on football's last taboo.

Away From Home premiered this summer when opened the 24:7 Theatre Festival, Manchester's annual new writing extravaganza.

It is co-written by Martin Jameson, who, with three decades experience in theatre, TV and radio (Casualty, Emmerdale, Holby City and numerous dramas for BBC Radio 4), also directs. Rob Ward, taking the part of Kyle, is a co-founder of Working Progress Theatre Company.