Bush theatre, LondonThis knockout drama " based on the life and times of the first African-American heavyweight champ, Jack Johnson " hits hard but has balletic graceMarco Ramirez is not the only writer to see the potential in the story of Jack Johnson, the first African-American world heavyweight boxing champion. Like Howard Sackler in The Great White Hope (1967), Ramirez uses the outline of Johnson's story to explo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:56AM on March 19, 2015