Joe Boateng, the ‘David Beckham’ of his generation, is Ghanaian.Naomi, his childhood sweetheart is British and of Jamaican parentage.With Joe’s escalating celebrity status comes huge sacrifices, accusations of selling out, temptations and life changing choices.Joe Guy is a stark and powerful contemporary storyexploring the historical tension and bitter prejudices existing between African and Caribbean British communities. It looks at how youngdescendants from Africa distance themselves from a unified urban Black Britain. This urgent examination of identity and celebrity is told in Tiata Fahodzi’s renowned visceral style.This is a programme text edition published to coincide with theplay’s world premiere in a production by Tiata Fahodzi that opens atthe New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, on 18 October before coming to Soho Theatre, London.