Communities on the stage: Play inspired by community owned football club debuts in the West End

Comedian Patrick Marber has written a play inspired by his position as director of a non-league football club that has debuted in the West End. Nationally Patrick Marber is known for helping create Alan Partridge in On the Hour and The Day Today. But locally he is also known as one of Rooks125 – a group of six supporters who worked hard to take the ailing Lewes Football Club into community ownership. Read more here. [Source: Eastbourne Herald, 1 July 2015]