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& Anne Paterson

      Barbara Prideaux

      Emily Reeve

      Renske & Marion

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      John Seal and Karen Scofield

      Jon & NoraLee Sedmak

      John & Tita Shakeshaft

      Diane Sheridan

      Saleem & Alexandra Siddiqi

      Melanie Slimmon

      Brian Smith

      Nick Starr

      Ed Vaizey

      Marina Vaizey

      Francois & Arrelle von Hurter

      Trish Wadley

      Amanda Waggott

      Olivia Warham

      Sir Robert & Lady Wilson

      Peter Wilson-Smith & Kat Callo

      Alison Winter

      Andrew & Carey Wright

       CORPORATE MEMBERS

       LEADING LIGHT

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       SPONSORS & SUPPORTERS

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      West 12 Shopping & Leisure Centre

       TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS

      The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation

      The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust

      BBC Performing Arts Fund

      Coutts Charitable Trust

      The Daisy Trust

      The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust

      EC&O Venues Charitable Trust

      Foundation for Sport and the Arts

      Garfield Weston Foundation

      Garrick Charitable Trust

      The Gatsby Charitable Foundation

      The Goldsmiths’ Company

      Hammersmith United Charities

      The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation

      The Idlewild Trust

      Japan Foundation

      Jerwood Charitable Foundation

      The J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust

      The John Thaw Foundation

      The Laurie & Gillian Marsh Charitable Trust

      The Leverhulme Trust

      The Martin Bowley Charitable Trust

      Royal Victoria Hall Foundation

      Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary

      Settlement

      Sita Trust

      The Theatres Trust

      The Thistle Trust

      The Williams Charitable Trust

      The Worshipful Company of Grocers

       PUBLIC FUNDING

If you are interested in finding out how to be involved, please visit the ‘Support Us’ section of www.bushtheatre.co.uk, email [email protected] or call 020 8743 3584

      Bush

      Theatre

      We make theatre for London. Now.

      The Bush is a world-famous home for new plays and an internationally renowned champion of plays. We discover, nurture and produce the best new playwrights from the widest range of backgrounds from our home in a distinctive corner of west London.

      The Bush has won over 100 awards and developed an enviable reputation for touring its acclaimed productions nationally and internationally.

      We are excited by exceptional new voices, stories and perspectives – particularly those with contemporary bite which reflect the vibrancy of British culture now.

      Now located in a recently renovated library building on the Uxbridge Road in the heart of Shepherd’s Bush, the theatre houses a 144-seat auditorium, rehearsal rooms and a lively café bar.

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       Underdogs

      By Marco Ramirez

      All storytellers like their underdogs. From Oliver Twist to Luke Skywalker, our myths are filled to the brim with characters up against insurmountable odds. And understandably so, because these stories work well in literature and film, but when it comes to the stage, stories about underdogs overcoming obstacles can’t help but feel thin. Corny. Simple.

      In the theatre, we like our underdogs scorned. From Richard III to Salieri, we go to the theatre to root for victims of injustice, for those whose ambitions have been squashed by circumstances way beyond their control.

      It’s gratifying to watch wrongs get righted, and I think the theatre is the ideal place for it, because only there can a character address us directly – in the flesh – and say – “Come with me on a journey. I’m taking this fucker down, and this is how I’m going to do it.” When I sat down to write a play about boxing, I wasn’t sure which kind of story I wanted to tell, but I did know that I wanted somehow to put all of us in the boxer’s head, so that when he said “Here comes the knock-out,” the entire audience felt like they were swinging with him.

      In order to earn that – to get us all behind that punch – I needed a boxer who was the victim of some kind of injustice, something beyond that boxer’s control, and few athletes in history have suffered more injustice than the man who inspired The Royale. The Galveston Giant himself. Jack Johnson.

      I took so many liberties with this piece that I renamed him, because this is in no way Jack Johnson’s actual story. The Royale’s Jay Jackson is a black boxer in America during the Jim Crow Era, and he’s also trying to get the white heavyweight into a ring – but the similarities end there – because The Royale isn’t just about Jack.

      It’s Muhammad Ali, whose legacy is as much about braggadocio as it is about pugilistic skill. It’s about Miles Davis, who in the midst of the African American Civil Rights Movement, insisted on zooming down New York City streets in his Ferrari. It’s about Jay-Z, a self-made entrepreneur who realized early on that the only way to

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