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Male | 30s | under 3 minutes
Starts on page 18

EXTRACT: How can I make you understand? When you’re out there reaching for a mark, even clambering onto the shoulders of the man you’re trying to beat, and your hands are raised to the sky and the ball glides into those hands, like it belonged nowhere else in that moment, when the voices of eighty thousand punters become one thundering roar, and you’ve not only blocked that goal but sent the ball soaring over the heads of all those fuckers, right into the arms of your man at the other end.

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LA MAMA THEATRE

“A love tap is the bit of a nudge you give your opposite number behind play that makes him fall down stunned but not damaged, just to show him who’s the man – and you hope like hell the umpire isn’t looking.”

THEATRE REVIEW

REVIEW BY LISA ROMEO

Love Taps is fundamentally about the embedded values and beliefs of the Australian male and the bonds of mateship.