The Goalkeeper’s Guide to Absurdism
Before Albert Camus was causing existential crises, he was saving goals. Arthur Darvill stars as Camus in a fever-dream reimagining of the final match of his football career.
Algiers, 1930. Albert Camus, philosopher, novelist, playwright, journalist, future Nobel Prize winner and current goalkeeper is about to play the football match of his life… the game that would be his last.
Before Albert Camus was causing existential crises, he was saving goals. Step inside the mind of one of the world’s greatest thinkers as he plays the final game of his career before succumbing to ill-health. As he stands in goal, he falls into the grip of a fever dream and is assailed by the greatest minds - Hegel, Aristotle, Kierkegaard - all offering advice on the biggest questions:
what is the meaning of life?
Does God exist?
And what is the offside rule?
Written by Paul Sirett
Cast:
Albert Camus... Arthur Darvill
Amandine ...Cecelia Appiah.
Directed by Carl Prekopp
Sound Design by Jon Nicholls
Produced by Wilkinson Productions for BBC Radio 4
Production Co-ordinator : Eleanor Mein
Script supervisor/Associate Producer : Emily Reader
Producer : Richard Shannon
Senior Producer : Andy Wilkinson
Executive Producer : Lucinda Mason Brown
Artwork by Thea Mae
On radio
Broadcast
- Thu 11 Jun 202614:15BBC Radio 4
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