YORK company Wildgoose Theatre are looking to land the knock-out blow with Oli Forsyth's play Cornermen at The Basement Bar, City Screen, York, next month.

Mickey, Drew and Joey are Cornermen, boxing trainers and managers who have never had much success and are on the lookout for the next big welterweight. When they spot Sid at an amateur night, they sign him, and soon his winning ways catapult them to a level they have never known before.

"Oli Forsyth's 2015 play is full of fast-paced humour and delves into the murky world of the 1980s' boxing scene," says director Andrew Love (previously more familiar to What's On readers as Andy Love).

His cast comprises Alexander King as Mickey, Martyn Hunter as Drew, Joe Sample as Sid and Claire Morley as Joey in Love's second production since Wildgoose returned after a five-year hiatus with Frank McGuinness’s deathbed play Gates Of Gold at 41 Monkgate last October.

Wildgoose originally formed in 2010 to "present plays that had not been seen in York", first presenting Joe Orton's frantic farce Entertaining Mr Sloane, then Frank McGuinness's hostage play Someone Who'll Watch Over Men in 2011.

The company philosophy has remained in place for Gates Of Gold and now Cornermen, whose February 6 to 8 run at The Basement will be followed by a February 10 show at Seven Arts, Chapel Allerton, Leeds, all performances starting at 7.30pm. York tickets can be booked at goo.gl/4HY8Gr; Leeds tickets go on sale soon at sevenleeds.co.uk/events