Tag: theatre
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#86: ‘Mighty Atoms’ by Amanda Whittington
‘Mighty Atoms’, written by Amanda Whittington, is a play which was commissioned by Hull Truck Theatre in 2017, the year in which Hull was named as Britain’s City of Culture. As with so many plays, I heard about this one only weeks after it was performed near where I live. Annoyingly, the play was staged…
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#74: ‘On The Ropes’ by Vernon Vanriel and Dougie Blaxland
‘On The Ropes’ is the story of former British professional boxer Vernon ‘The Entertainer’ Vanriel, co-written by Dougie Blaxland and directed by Anastasia Osei-Kuffour for its debut at the Park Theatre in Finsbury Park, north London. I haven’t posted for a while as I’ve been busy with work, and I’ve got a writing project of…
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#50: ‘Hook to the Chin’ by Lev Kreft
‘Hook to the Chin’ is an article originally published in Physical Culture and Sports Studies and Research, written by Lev Kreft, from the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts – University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. (DOI: 10.2478/v10141-009-0005-1) This article focuses on how artists of the Avant-Garde during the 1920s and 30s held sport, and specifically boxing,…
Writers on Boxing 