00:00Actor, musician and personal trainer Mickie Cochrane is set to take the stage once again in
00:06Carrying David, an emotionally charged and inspiring one-man show based on the life of
00:10world champion boxer Glenn McRory and his remarkable relationship with his adopted brother David.
00:16The show will run at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle on June the 21st and June the 22nd,
00:21promising audiences a powerful blend of sport, heart and humanity.
00:25I've caught up with Mickie to find out more about the show and what playing this role means to him.
00:30It's amazing, I've had three chances in the past to play the Theatre Royal, Carrying David was one,
00:38but there were two other shows that were in negotiations to come and play here and it never happened.
00:43So I've kind of come here and I've watched shows and imagined myself being on that stage
00:49and now that it's going to happen I'm over the moon, I think it's the right place for it,
00:55I think it's a big play and I know we're competing against lots of West End productions and stuff like that,
01:02but I would put my, you know, I put money on the fact that our show is as good as anything else that will be on here.
01:07Yes, well Glenn was the first boxer from the North East to win a world title and I think in a year where Newcastle have made history again with a cup,
01:17like we should have a little look at this and revisit it, it's a real piece of history.
01:22I think he's still the only person from Tyneside to win a world title, which is amazing really.
01:27But his career was really, really up and down, you know, he was with managers that didn't really serve him very well,
01:34he fought at heavyweight and lost loads of fights, his physical and mental wellbeing wasn't great,
01:40but he had this amazing brother David who was fighting a terminal illness who inspired him to come back and to fight on
01:50and it's one of the greatest sporting comebacks ever.
01:54Glenn was a fantastic boxer but his career was just a rollercoaster ride and then he picks himself up off the floor
02:01and on one amazing night in his hometown he fights for the world championship.
02:05We're going to be working with four different charities, one of them is a charity that's in Blythe called Boxing Well
02:12that invites people from the community in and they do talk shops, they do boxing and they really help people in the community
02:19so we're going to be running workshops after the play.
02:22We've got 50 free tickets so the participants come and see the play and then we do workshops afterwards
02:28and then they create their own work.
02:30So it's all about the benefits of creativity and fitness and exercise on mental health.
02:36I just think we're in a position to be able to do it and I think it's a play that people will come and see
02:40and be inspired by it.
02:41So alongside the boxing story, it's an amazing story of hope and triumph over adversity
02:47and grown men who pride themselves on being hard and being sportsmen come to see this play and they cry
02:53because it hits something, it's full of hearts, it's an amazing story, you won't quite believe it.
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