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Punch
112 pages, Paperback
Published April 15, 2025
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October 14, 2025
3.5, rounded up
This is now the 7th play I've read by the prolific young UK playwright - half of which I've really liked, the rest which left me rather cold. This lands squarely mid-ground - didn't love it, didn't hate it. It's an inherently interesting true story about reparative justice, and although both the NYT review of the current Bway production and the Guardian's of the original Nottingham one (linked below) claims the parents get short shrift, I didn't think that the case at all. I just didn't particularly cotton to the way in which the story is dramatized.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/th...
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/art...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMy7E...
This is now the 7th play I've read by the prolific young UK playwright - half of which I've really liked, the rest which left me rather cold. This lands squarely mid-ground - didn't love it, didn't hate it. It's an inherently interesting true story about reparative justice, and although both the NYT review of the current Bway production and the Guardian's of the original Nottingham one (linked below) claims the parents get short shrift, I didn't think that the case at all. I just didn't particularly cotton to the way in which the story is dramatized.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/th...
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/art...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMy7E...
March 28, 2026
Mixed feelings about the ending, but overall a great insight into the idea of consequences and life after being inside. Jacob’s development is so well worked.
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