Sucker Punch
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Sucker Punch

Roy Williams

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Roy Williams

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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.

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Publisher
Methuen Drama
Year
2015
ISBN
9781472574367
Edition
1
Topic
Literatur
Subtopic
Britisches Drama
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

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