Mr Roy Williams: 14 books
Williams Plays: 4
Sucker Punch; Category B; Joe Guy; Baby Girl; There’s Only One Wayne Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
'[Williams's] plays have brought the experience of black urban youth onto the stage' Observer
Sucker Punch: 'As usual with Williams, the dialogue is crisp and bespoke: motives are mixed, nobody is a hero, nothing is just black and white.' The Times
Joe Guy: 'Williams's dialogue ricochets...
Williams Plays: 1
The No Boys Cricket Club; Starstruck; Lift Off
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
The first collection of plays by the multi-award winning playwright and winner of the 2001 "Most Promising Playwright" Evening Standard Theatre Award
THE NO BOYS CRICKET CLUB (1996): Living alone on a drab London council estate, Abi has long since lost sight of the good things in...
Antigone
Sophocles
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
When Creon refuses to bury the body of Antigone's unruly brother, Antigone's anger quickly turns to defiance. Creon condemns her to a torturous death: she's to be buried alive.
Acclaimed playwright Roy Williams takes Sophocles' play and, by placing it into a contemporary setting, brings this...
Not Black and White
Category B, Seize the Day, Detaining Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Not Black and White comprises of three new plays which examine the state of modern day Britain from the perspective of three leading black contemporary playwrights. Roy Williams, Kwame Kwei-Armah and Bola Agbaje tackle the prison system, the mayoralty and immigration in their respective plays.
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by Mr Roy Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Written in response to Much Ado About Nothing and performed by Dominic Cooke's Pericles and The Winter's Tale Company, Roy Williams' Days of Significance is set in market-town England and the deserts of Iraq. Two young soldiers join their friends to binge drink the night before they leave for active...
Not Black and White
Category B; Seize the Day; Detaining Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Not Black and White comprises of three new plays which examine the state of modern day Britain from the perspective of three leading black contemporary playwrights. Roy Williams, Kwame Kwei-Armah and Bola Agbaje tackle the prison system, the mayoralty and immigration in their respective plays.
Category...
Williams Plays: 2
Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads; Clubland; The Gift
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Second collection of plays by the award-winning young British playwright
Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads: Tensions erupt in a South London pub as England lose against Germany at football
Clubland: Ben is married to Denise but on the pull, Kenny's looking for someone who's "right",...
by Mr Roy Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Set in modern-day Jamaica, Kingston 14 follows the story of James, a black British police officer, who is sent to Kingston to investigate the murder of an English tourist in a local hotel. Tied to Jamaica by his father who was born there, James struggles to lead a proper investigation when gang leader,...
The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers
Welcome Home Jacko, Chiaroscuro, Talking in Tongues, Sing Yer Heart Out ..., Fix Up, Gone Too Far!
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers provides an essential anthology of six of the key plays that have shaped the trajectory of British black theatre from the late-1970s to the present day. In doing so it charts the journey from specialist black theatre companies to the mainstream,...
by Mr Roy Williams
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Do wrong, you get done, simple as.
Gail Wilde is an average policewoman, but one who lives up to her nickname, 'Wildefire' – and in the precarious world of modern policing, being wild or full of fire is hardly likely to be appropriate for the job in hand . . .
Suspicions surrounding...
by Mr Roy Williams
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
I can't get out of bed without groaning or feel summin inside of me is creaking… We're too old for this shit.
In a pub in South London 'The Firm' reunite for the first time in twelve years. Back in their misspent youth they were a notorious criminal gang; these days they're older, wiser,...
by Mr Roy Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Right, you know the rules, watch the low blows, if it's a knock-down no messing about, go straight to your corner, and don't come out till called for, are we clear? Touch gloves, let's go.
In the red corner: Leon Davidson - Black British champ or Uncle Tom? In the blue corner: Troy Augustus...
by Mr Roy Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Don't ever be that way, like your brother. No matter what the excuse or provocation, don't be like that.
It's 2011 and 1958 and London is rioting. Candice is ordered by her gang-leading boyfriend to lure Clint into a honeytrap. Haunted by her grandfather's mistakes, she stands at a crossroads....
by Mr Roy Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Kev is just out of the Young Offenders Institute and is determined to keep his nose clean, but back on the streets the pressure is mounting...