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Chicago Theater Review: SUCKER PUNCH (Victory Gardens Biograph Theater) by Lawrence Bommer

BREAD AND BOXING Raw as realism requires, good plays about boxing are more than just Rocky slugfests. Like Clifford Odets' seminal Golden Boy, they transform an atavistic popular distraction into a metaphor for sweet success, the reward of pluck and nerve–or, as the title of Sucker Punch implies, a parable on selling your soul in […]

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:52AM on October 15, 2015

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