Last Goal Wins review: Justice Ezi's football drama debut
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- Justice Ezi's debut play Last Goal Wins runs at Broadway, Catford, confronting racism, belonging, and "the sometimes-shadowy business of sport" through a football drama staged in a small studio
- The Guardian reviewer calls the production "well-paced and plotted" and singles out a "genuinely nail-biting final shootout" as the dramatic climax
Why it matters: A debut work staging football's racial and commercial fault lines in a fringe Catford studio gives the sport a rare theatrical treatment beyond stadium-pageant nostalgia, with Ezi's tight plotting earning the "beautiful game" a genuine dramatic payoff.
