Micky Cochrane is set to take the stage once again in Carrying David, an emotionally charged and inspiring one-man show based on the life of world champion boxer Glenn McCrory and his remarkable relationship with his adopted brother, David. The show will run at the Theatre Royal Newcastle on June 21st and 22nd
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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.