Ali The Champion

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08/02/21 • 7 min

ALI THE CHAMPION
Written by Jamie Walsh.
Read by Chantell Walker.
Edited by Ethan Walsh.
Produced by Jamie and Ethan Walsh.
Music by Daniel Cassidy.
Chantell Walker
Chantell is a theatre director and co-founder of Hiding Place Theatre. She trained as a director at Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse as part of the Young Everyman and Playhouse Directors scheme. In 2020, she was assistant director at the Royal Exchange Theatre with the regional young directors scheme.
Director credits include:
Bottleneck, Liverpool Royal & North West Tour, Hiding Place Theatre; Thorn, Oldham Coliseum and Eggs, Tristan Bates Theatre.
Assistant Director credits include:
The Sum, Everyman & Playhouse; To Have To Shoot Irishmen, National Tour; Rockets and Blue Lights, Royal Exchange Theatre.

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Ali The Champion

There was a dog. A famous dog. He was notorious in the city. I don’t know what he was. He was a strange cocktail of breeds and it would probably be rude to guess. No one knew his real name or if he even had one. Some people called him Tuggy. Others knew him as Champ. But most referred to him as Ali. Because he lived in an alley.

The reason Ali was so well-known, the re