 A one man play about...... alcohol, prison........... and the hope
of a good breakfast
Just released from a fictional version of Her Majesty's Prison Ford, Bomber Jackson has half an
hour to kill at the train station before he can start out in search of a new sober life, but
looking through the window of the buffet he 'can almost taste the yellow warmth of the light
shining down on to the optics...' Often drunk and on the edge of
violence, Bomber Jackson seems to embody the respectable class's worst nightmare but audiences
will be surprised to find themselves drawn to the wit and feeling of the cockney ex-boxer as he
sets out on this most unsteady pilgrim's progress.
Without underplaying the obstacles to redemption for a down and out in
Blair's Britain 'Bomber Jackson Does Some' ends optimistically and has the audience rooting 100
per cent for it's eponymous hero.
‘A storyteller as brusque as a terrier. His prose is brilliant.’
Time Out
‘No one else could tell the stories Bob tells because of who he is and where
he’s been.’
Mark Thomas |
