James Graham’s Punch is a blistering piece of theatre that exemplifies the playwright’s extraordinary ability to transform real-life events into urgent, thought-provoking drama. Based on Jacob Dunne’s memoir Right from Wrong, the play revisits the shocking true story of the single punch that changed two lives forever: when a teenage Jacob Dun struck James Hodgkinson in Nottingham in 2011, an impulsive act that led to Hodgkinson’s tragic and unintended death. It is from this painful, complicated truth that Graham has fashioned a play of astonishing humanity, one that wrestles with themes of guilt, forgiveness, responsibility and redemption.