Everybody's Playing a Game - Chess at CLOC

CLOC Musical Theatre will present Chess this October.

An international romantic drama played out against a backdrop of political intrigue and treachery provides the setting for Chess.

Set during the height of the Cold War, two of the world’s greatest chess players are about to battle for the World Championship. They think they are just playing chess, but they both unwittingly find themselves pawns of their own governments’ political manipulations.

Caught in the cross-fire is the woman who arrives as the assistant to one player but falls in love with the other player, and finds herself ensnared in the hurricane between the two grandmasters, in a triangle of power and love.

With music by ABBA’s Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus, and book and lyrics by Sir Tim Rice, the score for this sung-through production features ‘I Know Him So Well’ and ‘One Night in Bangkok’, ‘Anthem’, ‘Someone Else’s Story’, ‘Heaven Help My Heart’, ‘You and I’ and ‘Pity The Child’.

CLOC will bring Chess to the National Theatre stage from October 6-21, 2023, promising a Knight to remember. Game, Match…..Check Mate

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Image L-R: Amelia Ropé (The Arbiter), Aaron Taylor (Freddie), Rosa McCarty (Florence), Mark Doran (Anatoly), Rachel Rai (Svetlana). Photography:  Ben Fon