Book description
Joe Boateng, the 'David Beckham' of his generation, is Ghanaian. Naomi,
his childhood sweetheart is British and of Jamaican parentage. With
Joe's escalating celebrity status comes huge sacrifices, accusations of
selling out, temptations and life changing choices. Joe Guy is a stark
and powerful contemporary story exploring the historical tension and
bitter prejudices existing between African and Caribbean British
communities. It looks at how young descendants from Africa distance
themselves from a unified urban Black Britain. This urgent examination
of identity and celebrity is told in Tiata Fahodzi's renowned visceral
style. This is a programme text edition published to coincide with the
play's world premiere in a production by Tiata Fahodzi that opens at the
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich,on 18 October before coming to Soho Theatre,
London. Roy Williams is a prolific, critically acclaimed writer whose
recent works include Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads (National Theatre,
2002, 2004), Little Sweet Thing (New Wolsey, Ipswich/Nottingham
Playhouse/Birmingham Rep, 2005) and the stage adaptation of Absolute
Beginners (Lyric Hammersmith, London, 2007).
