Live Wire Theatre

Hands Up for Jonny Wilkinson’s Right Boot is a rollicking rugby romp of a play! Incorporating song, physical and dramatic action the four brilliant actors swap roles at breakneck speed to bring some of rugby’s greatest moments to life, including the All Black Haka and Wilkinson’s World Cup-winning drop goal with his right boot.

The play begins when three fans meet in a Twickenham pub before kick-off at a crucial England match. During an argument about the greatest moment in rugby history, a stranger tells them about Frederick Stanley Jackson, a Cornish tin miner who was on the first ever British Lions tour to New Zealand in 1908.

Travelling back and forth from the present day to the early 1900s, ‘Hands Up for Jonny Wilkinson’s Right Boot’ explores Jackson’s story.