Breaking Baz: ‘Punch’, The Must-See New Play By James Graham, Will Transfer To London’s West End While A Production Plays On Broadway
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Olivier Award winner James Graham’s unmissable, must-see new play of the year, Punch, featuring an unbelievably stunning performance by David Shields as Jacob Dunne, will transfer from the Young Vic theatre into London’s West End in the fall, Deadline can reveal.
Punch, an extraordinary study of a young man who landed a fatal blow on James Hodgkinson, a trainee paramedic during an unprovoked attack, and the consequences thereafter, will become that rare instance of productions of the same play opening simultaneously in the West End and on Broadway.
The drama, adapted from Dunne’s superb memoir Right from Wrong, originated last year at the Nottingham Playhouse in the East Midlands, the same district where the events in the play took place and where Graham was born and raised.
Following its sold-out run at the Young Vic, it will move to the Apollo, Shaftesbury Avenue. from September 22-November 29. My colleague Greg Evans revealed in March that a U.S.
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