The Royale review " a pulsating, expressionist vision of the boxing world by Michael Billington

Bush theatre, LondonThis knockout drama " based on the life and times of the first African-American heavyweight champ, Jack Johnson " hits hard but has balletic graceMarco Ramirez is not the only writer to see the potential in the story of Jack Johnson, the first African-American world heavyweight boxing champion. Like Howard Sackler in The Great White Hope (1967), Ramirez uses the outline of Johnson's story to explo…

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