MATCH point to Bedales for a tennis-inspired play that’s bound to be a smash.

Picture the scene - it’s 1981 and it’s Wimbledon time.

Iceman Bjorn Borg faces the fiery John McEnroe across the net: the self controlled champion and the impassioned upstart.

An epic rivalry comes to a head as the country holds its breath courtside and around their TVs at home.

A six-year-old boy watches and learns.

Bjorn Borg epitomised tennis cool. He was everything Jamie and his brother wanted to be.

Then McEnroe came long and Borg was beaten - and so was Jamie.

Thirty years of torment and self-questioning later, he is ready to face his greatest opponent.

Beating McEnroe is a new solo show from award-winning theatre maker Jamie Wood about a pivotal moment in life and sport history.

With the help of the audience at Bedales, in the Olivier Theatre on Friday, February 26 at 7.30pm, among vivid and surprising images, Jamie performs a cathartic ritual - recreating and reliving the last point of one fateful match until he is finally able to move on in his life.

Beating McEnroe is about being a young brother and a bad loser. It is about beating ourselves up for failing to live up to our youthful aspirations.

It is about the consuming desire to be like other people. It is about rivalry and love and how they can both better us and destroy us.

And it is about competition and control, vitriol and zen.

This production was shortlisted for a Total Theatre Award for Innovation, Experimentation and Playing with Form at the Edinburgh Festival in 2013.

It also won other regional awards, and has been touring internationally to Europe and Asia with great success.

Jamie is a performer and director, and has devised work for national and international tours.

He is also a ‘clown doctor’ with the Theodora Children’s Trust, visiting sick children in hospitals throughout the UK. His work reflects a training combining fine art, theatre, clown and dance.

Tickets are £10 with £8 for concessions.