“★ ★ ★ ★”
“A strikingly written study of a lad with nothing to lose and everything to fight for”
“A tactful, charismatic rumination. ★ ★ ★ ★”
Greenside, Edinburgh Fringe
18-23rd August 2025
Writer/Director: Lowri Mathias
James: Taylor Uttley
Arts Council England Funded R&D
Theatre Deli, June 2025
Writer/Director: Lowri Mathias
James: Taylor Uttley
Dramaturg: Olu Alakija
Stage Manager: Phoebe Buckland
Fight Director: Ben Peterson
Leglock
Streatham Space Project
May 2024
Writer/Director: Lowri Mathias
James: Taylor Uttley
Omnibus Theatre Engine Rooms
July 2024
Writer/Director: Lowri Mathias
James: Oliver Hatfield
“Right.
Yous are not going to fucking believe what happened out there. When I tell you it was fucking magic,
you had best believe — it was fucking MAGIC.
I’m fucking Leon Edwards,
I’m king of the fucking world!
Shit!”
16 year old amateur MMA fighter James has just won his biggest fight yet. In the changing room after the fight, he recounts his successes and looks the towards the future, the kind of man he wants to be. As he puts back on his street clothes and the adrenaline begins to fizzle out, however, he is force to confront difficult questions about the path he’s found himself on, and how much choice he actually had in the matter.
