Jay Jackson fighting career, pertaining to the early 1900’s revolving around the “fight of the century” is expressed throughout the production The Royale. This theatrical production is written by Marco Ramirez at the Bush Theatre and the production was performed at Shepard’s Bush in London. The stage was shaped as a boxing arena and it had a wooden boxing ring in the center. The center of the theater has what you expect at a boxing match which includes chalk residue, smoke, and rubbish all around. Having an arena stage design allowed the audience for an engaging performance. This production is about the main character name Jay ‘The Sport’ Jackson who wanted to become the best heavyweight champion in the world. In the past, he was the 1903
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The Royale of boxing was considered to be the worst boxing matches for the black people in America. PBS did a film called Unforgivable Blackness: Rise and fall of Jack Johnson talking about the Royale. The director of the film explained, "Taking part in one of the most humiliating creations of the Jim Crow era, the Battle Royal. A backroom spectacle in which six or eight or ten black boys often blindfolded and were set to punching one another while drunken white men jeered them on. The last one standing got the prize, usually, a fist full of tossed coins. Jack Johnson was often the last one standing" (Ward). Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued in force until …show more content…
What’s symbolic about this flight is that Nina is in Jay’s head because she is worried about the situation. He tells Nina that he wants this and he explained to Nina, “Every punch I ever threw, every punch I ever took. I’m just trying to fix that. I’ma still trying to tell you- I’ma make it right. I’ma change things” (Ramirez 109). Jay doesn’t grasp the fact that this fight is really the blacks fighting against racism, throughout the play Jay dodges the press and Nina rationalizing that the fight will target blacks even more until the end when he gets ‘punched in the face’ as the blacks are targeted immediately after he wins- stabbing dish and bloody coins polling out. Confidence was the theme that Jay brought out in the production. Jay puts in so much effort for the event and in his mind, Nina was questioning him. Jay was able to speak out to Nina about all the effort towards the boxing
The Royale of boxing was considered to be the worst boxing matches for the black people in America. PBS did a film called Unforgivable Blackness: Rise and fall of Jack Johnson talking about the Royale. The director of the film explained, "Taking part in one of the most humiliating creations of the Jim Crow era, the Battle Royal. A backroom spectacle in which six or eight or ten black boys often blindfolded and were set to punching one another while drunken white men jeered them on. The last one standing got the prize, usually, a fist full of tossed coins. Jack Johnson was often the last one standing" (Ward). Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued in force until …show more content…
What’s symbolic about this flight is that Nina is in Jay’s head because she is worried about the situation. He tells Nina that he wants this and he explained to Nina, “Every punch I ever threw, every punch I ever took. I’m just trying to fix that. I’ma still trying to tell you- I’ma make it right. I’ma change things” (Ramirez 109). Jay doesn’t grasp the fact that this fight is really the blacks fighting against racism, throughout the play Jay dodges the press and Nina rationalizing that the fight will target blacks even more until the end when he gets ‘punched in the face’ as the blacks are targeted immediately after he wins- stabbing dish and bloody coins polling out. Confidence was the theme that Jay brought out in the production. Jay puts in so much effort for the event and in his mind, Nina was questioning him. Jay was able to speak out to Nina about all the effort towards the boxing