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Sucker Punch
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Right, you know the rules, watch the low blows, if it's a knock-down no messing about, go straight to your corner, and don't come out till called for, are we clear? Touch gloves, let's go.
In the red corner: Leon Davidson - Black British champ or Uncle Tom? In the blue corner: Troy Augustus - American powerhouse or naive cash cow? Having spent their youth in the same London boxing gym, vying for the favouritism of inspirational, foul-mouthed trainer Charlie Maggs, the two former friends step into the ring and face up to who they are. Boxing has dominated their lives with an unhoped-for structure and meaning, but it becomes clear that it is no substitute for their health, family, and friends.
Roy Williams' Sucker Punch looks back on what it was like to be young and black in the 1980s and asks if the right battles have been fought, let alone won.
With an introduction by Harry Derbyshire, Lecturer in English and Drama at the University of Greenwich.
In the red corner: Leon Davidson - Black British champ or Uncle Tom? In the blue corner: Troy Augustus - American powerhouse or naive cash cow? Having spent their youth in the same London boxing gym, vying for the favouritism of inspirational, foul-mouthed trainer Charlie Maggs, the two former friends step into the ring and face up to who they are. Boxing has dominated their lives with an unhoped-for structure and meaning, but it becomes clear that it is no substitute for their health, family, and friends.
Roy Williams' Sucker Punch looks back on what it was like to be young and black in the 1980s and asks if the right battles have been fought, let alone won.
With an introduction by Harry Derbyshire, Lecturer in English and Drama at the University of Greenwich.
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24
Sucker
Punch
12
Plays:
4
,
p.
xi.
13
Brecht,
writing
in
the
Berliner
Börsen-Courier
in
1926,
quoted
in
Willett
(ed.),
Brecht
on
Theatre
,
London:
Methuen,
1964,
p.
6.
14
Brecht
on
Theatre
,
p.
8.
15
For
a
full
account
of
these
debates,
see
Deirdre
Osborne’s
chapter
on
Roy
Williams
in
Martin
Middeke,
Peter
Paul
Schnierer
and
Aleks
Sierz
(eds),
The
Methuen
Drama
Guide
to
Contemporary
British
Playwrights
,
London:
Methuen,
2011,
pp.
487–509.
16
See
John
Stokes,
‘Unofficial
rules
of
the
game’,
Times
Literary
Supplement
,
6
November
2009.
17
Michael
Pearce,
‘Roy
Williams’,
in
Dan
Rebellato
(ed.),
Modern
British
Playwriting:
2000–2009
,
London:
Methuen,
2013,
p.
161.
Characters
Leon
,
black,
16–20
Troy
,
black,
16–20
Becky
,
white,
16–20
Charlie
,
white,
46–50
Tommy
,
white,
20–24
Ray
,
black,
35
Squid
,
black,
40–44
Table of contents
- FC
- Methuen Drama Modern Classics
- Title
- Copyright
- Sucker Punch
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