The play follows Liam Casey, who has dedicated much of his life to boxing, from the age of about nine into his 30s.<\/p>\n
For Ferris, the story is not only about leaving the ring, but about losing the routine that comes with it.<\/p>\n
“The idea of structure and what life is like whenever you lose that structure definitely played on my mind,” he said.<\/p>\n
“There are people who work in jobs for 10, 12, 13-odd years and just decide to change industries.<\/p>\n
“I think there’s a lot of people who may not know what to do with themselves after.”<\/p>\n
Ferris grew up performing in amateur theatre in Belfast and Lisburn before going to drama school in London in 2012.<\/p>\n
He said returning home had given him the chance to tell new stories about the place where he grew up.<\/p>\n
“I’m a Belfast boy at heart, and it is great to tell stories from the city,” he said.<\/p>\n
Ferris said “the boxing community in Belfast is phenomenal” and that it played an important part in shaping the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The play follows Liam Casey, who has dedicated much of his life to boxing, from the age of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-795726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}