Joe Guy - Methuen Drama Author:Roy Williams 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 histor... more »ical 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