Category: Young Vic

We’re already fans of James Graham’s work – one of the UK’s leading political playwrights, we’ve now caught a number of his shows. Last year we checked out the football-themed Dear England, and we also reviewed Best of Enemies the year before, which used the framing device of televised debates to consider the American political landscape. Punch tells a smaller, more localised story – based on real events, we meet teenager Jacob (David Shields) who unintentionally kills a young trainee paramedic on a night out in Nottingham. Like Graham’s other…