I cried so hard this weekend and gave huge thanks for my lifetime hero, Muhammad Ali. It feels all the more poignant because we already planned to revive my play Muhammad Ali and Me in October this year. We will be playing at the Albany Theatre in Deptford 6-15^th October. We will then take a streamlined version of the show on a community tour of boxing clubs in Tower Hamlets through Rich Mix, Luton, Woking and across East Lancashire and West Yorkshire through idle women on the water. We are grateful to Arts Council England for their support and to all of you whom we hope will come along and enjoy the show and celebrate The Greatest.

I made a tribute on BBC World Service Radio on the morning Ali passed on. I’m on from 44 minutes in. Listen here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03wj5cw)

Muhammad Ali & Me. Photo by Rajha Shakiry

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