The Sweet Science of Bruising
TicketsThe shadowy world of female boxing provides the opportunity for four very different women to break away from the lives that have been ordained for them by society.
Polly Stokes is a fighter, has been ever since she was abandoned on a doorstep as a babe. Irish-born Mattie Blackwell lives on the streets, her life a constant battle to survive. Violet Hunter wants to be a doctor but no man will let her, and Anna Lamb seems to have it all, a husband, children, a house, servants… but in truth, she has nothing.
Held in by corsets, held back by men, the violent release they find in the boxing ring brings them a form of freedom they’ve never known. But at the final bell, there can only be one Lady Boxing Champion of the World.
An epic tale of passion, power, politics and pugilism from the pen of Joy Wilkinson and performed with verve by TWC.
Burnley-born Joy Wilkinson is an accomplished and prize-winning author who has written several plays (Now is the Time, Fair and Britain’s Best Recruiting Sergeant among others), plus numerous TV and film scripts covering a range from sci-fi/fantasy such as Doctor Who and Lockwood & Co. through to thrilling dramas Suspect and The Pact, via Holby City, Casualty and Land Girls.
