Clarence Ryan in Yirra Yaakin’s King Hit. Photo by Simon Pynt.
Geoffrey Narkle and David Milroy’s compelling King Hit is based on Narkle’s own life as a boxer dubbed ‘the Barker Bulldog’, and explores the impact on an individual and a culture when relationships and family bonds are brutally broken.
Forcibly removed from his family, Geoffrey was raised on Wandering Mission before leaving to join Stewart’s Boxing Troupe, where he travelled the South West as a tent boxer. Ultimately it was his fighting spirit which gave him the strength to turn away from a downward spiral of despair, finding peace within and reconciling broken family bonds.
