Days of Significance

The play is produced by the RSC in the Swan Theatre, 10-20 January, 2007 Roy Williams has had considerable critical and popular success in recent years with plays such as Clubland, Sing Yer Hearts Out For The Lads, and Little Sweet Thing His plays appeal strongly to a young audience as well as the more traditional theatre audience in their depiction of street culture, menace and bravado in multi-cultural Britain

Days of Significance is the new work by Roy Williams commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and staged at the Swan Theatre in January 2007.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 service. Their complex love lives and mortal fears directly impact on their tour of duty. Roy Williams looks at how the naive and malformed moral codes of these young men have catastrophic reverberations for the West's moral authority.