Williams Plays: 3

Published ahead of the revival of his RSC play, Days of Significance (Tricycle Theatre, London, March 2008) and which is published in its revised version here. He's a prolific writer with a high profile: in 2007 there were four new plays: Days of Significance, Baby Girl (National Theatre), Joe Guy (Ipswich and London) and There's Only One Wayne Matthews (Polka Theatre, Wimbledon). Roy Williams has won numerous awards for his writing. In 2003 Fallout was nominated for the Evening Standard Award for Best New Play. Absolute Beginners was a major new production opening in May 2007. 'Roy Williams was everywhere, best of all with Days of Significance at Stratford's Swan dealing with an ill-educated underclass." Guardian, theatre round-up 2007

A third collection of work by this acclaimed playwright 'whose plays, more than anyone else's, have brought the experience of black urban youth onto the stage' ObserverRoy Williams has a deserved reputation as one of the most exciting young writers whose plays have electrified the sort of audiences most theatres rarely see: streetwise urban youth. 'His plays have brought the experience of black urban youth onto the stage' (Observer).This third collection of plays, introduced by the author, showcases the diversity, the moral probing and the fine ear for authentic dialogue characteristic of his writing: Fallout: first produced in 2003 the play focuses on the aftermath of the killing of a teenager. Slow Time was commissioned and developed by the National Theatre's Education Department and toured to London schools. Set in a young offender's institution the play depicts three young men and their fight to survive. Days of Significance was produced by the RSC in 2007 and is revived at the Tricycle Theatre, London in March 2008. It was described by the Daily Telegraph as 'the best new play of the year ...that powerfully caught the debased spirit of our times.' Absolute Beginners - a stage adaptation of the seminal novel of adolescence set in 1958 London - produced at the Lyric Hammersmith May 07: 'bags of energy and highly watchable' Daily Mail.