Nick Hornby's first novel Fever Pitch was simply a one-off. Funny, relentlessly self-critical and merciless in its exposure of the ghastly macho culture that permeates every pore of the football supporter's body. On the cinema screen, it turns into one of those small but true jewels that the British film industry turns out from time to time. As a one-man show for the stage, by Brighton Theatre Events, it is less successful. It's not that the adapter-director Paul Hodson has not put loads of tender loving care into its new incarnation, nor that actor Stephen North does not work himself senseless in his portrayal of the Arsenal fanatic, who is, of course, Hornby himself. It's really that this is a one-gag show, contrasting the raucous, foul-mouthed tribalism of the public face of the fan with the intelligent, articulate Cambridge graduate, who cowers beneath.

North's voice and body language adapt equally well to Highbury terrace and university common room, where he makes his first hesitant foray into the world of girls and nonfootball relationships. But beyond the semantically challenged roaring and the quietly philosophical-sociological musings, this piece struggles to find the elation and hilarity of the book which gave it birth.

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