Overview
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 opened at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich.