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ROY WILLIAMS (1968 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Alan Brodie Representation Ltd (agent: Lisa Foster) |
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Plays by Roy Williams |
24 Hour Plays | ||
| 1st Produced: | 19 Jun 2005 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115563 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of 24 Hour Plays by Roy Williams, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Enda Walsh, Steve Waters | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Absolute Beginners | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Fuel | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66956 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | based on book by Colin MacInnes | |||||
Synopsis: | London 1958. Teenagers are blowing away the cobwebs of post-war life - the absolute beginners are creating the world anew. A Vespariding young photographer takes a mp through the gritty 'and glamorous streets of West London chasing the love of his life. But behind the jazz, sex and drugs of the new age lies a simmering cauldron of racial hatred that threatens to ignite at any moment. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Advice For The Young At Heart | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Centre - Shoreditch, Shoreditch Town Hall, 380 Old Street, London EC1V 9LT >>> | 24 Sep 2012 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #136419 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | In 2011 Candice is in a lock up. In 1958 Sam is in a punch up. Two teenagers who were never meant to meet find each other united by a terrible burden. Will they ever overcome their secrets? Advice For The Young At Heart is a warm and honest generational story about what it is to be young in riotous times, present and past. With sharp dialogue and intense drama, we follow two complex and intriguingly relatable characters across modern history. How will they find their voice in such violent times? How will they learn to live with themselves? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Angel House | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Eclipse Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #70587 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The Vincents have lived in Craven Court sincethe day the estate was unveiled. Watch the family's triumphs and crises unfold against the backdrop of massive social changes in Britain. Enoch Powell's River of Blood speech.The Notting Hill riots. Thatcherism. The Iraq War. 9/11. The London bombings. Share their journey as they live, breathe and feel the history of multiculturalism and immigration in the UK over the past fifty years. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Baby Girl | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Young Actors Company, Cambridge | |||||
| 1st Published: | in NT Connections2007, Faber and Faber, London, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #70275 | |||
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Genre: | short play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of the National Connections Festival | |||||
Synopsis: | explores the real issues behind why the UK has Europe's highest teenage pregnancy rate. It is funny, fast and true, and has Williams' characteristic rude sweetness: "I got pregnant first, don't copy me," yells Kelle to her friend, Danielle, who hates children but thinks a baby would be nice to hug. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Category B | ||
| 1st Produced: | 12 Oct 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1408127445 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #104117 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| Set in a category B prison. Sule rules over a wing but is looking for a new number two | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Chain Play, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, (not for commercial sale), 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #63703 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Samuel Adamson, Moira Buffini, David Hare, Charlotte Jones, Frank McGuinness and Roy Williams each wrote a link for the Almeida's first chain play, performed for one night only as the theatre's major fund-raising event. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Clubland | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37326 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Although Ben is married to Denise he's still on the pull, Kenny's looking for someone who's "right", Ade's with Sandra but playing the field, and Nate's a proud new father. Clubland is Roy Williams' hilarious new comedy of sexual politics in south London | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Days Of Significance | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Royal Shakespeare Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61638 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Written in response to Much Ado About Nothing, Days of Significance is set in market-town England and the deserts of Iraq. On the eve of their departure for active service, two young soldiers join their friends to binge drink the night away. Their complex love lives and mortal fears directly impact on their tour of duty and reveal how the naive and malformed moral codes of these young men have catastrophic reverberations for the \Vest's moral authority. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fallout | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37327 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A boy is found dead. DC Joe Stephens must return to his old neighbourhood to investigate. Shance is avoiding his questions about her boyfriend, Emile, and his mates. Ronnie saw something, but promised Shanice she'd say nothing. But when a reward is offered, keeping quiet becomes a major rtest of their street loyalty. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gift, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37328 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Since their childhood, when Heather left Jamaica to start a new life in England, her half-sister Bernice always claimed to have 'the gift' of raising spirits from the dead. Thirty years later, when Heather returns to the island after the murder of her much-loved son, she offers Bernice the deeds to the family house - if she can bring him back. . . | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Joe Guy | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Tiata Fahodzi | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #70167 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | extras, radio voices | |||||
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Synopsis: | Joe Boateng's days behind the counter of a cheap burger bar are far behind him, as is his childhood sweetheart Naomi and the kids who mocked him for his Ghanaian accent. Now a premiership football star, he's never out of the papers and everyone wants a piece of him. The Cristal, the bad behaviour, now the rape allegations.., what happened to the good boy who stayed out of trouble? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Josie's Lads | ||
| 1st Produced: | Red Ladder TC | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37329 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Lift Off | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37330 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | When old time school friends Mal and Tone begin to break their lifelong friendship, bitter prejudices are brought to the fore. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Little Sweet Thing | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Wolsey, Ipswich | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #43542 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Kev, Jamal and Ryan used to run together in the winning school relay team. Now they are running just to stand still on the huge housing estate where they live. Newly released from Feltham, hard-man Kev is trying to go straight, but its difficult when you find your friend has taken your place as leader of the pack. Everyone is toughing it out, including Kev's schoolgirl kid sister, Tash, whose pint-sized swagger has some - but not all of them-fooled at school. - Garner, Gaurdian | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Local Boy | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37331 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play, 55 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | story of no-hope teenagers chasing their dreams on a five-a-side football pitch. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Night And Day | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Venture | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37332 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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No-Boys Cricket Club, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37333 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Living alone on a drab London council estate, Abi has long since lost sight of the good things in life, until an old friend takes her back to her glorious past in Jamaica as the greatest all-rounder of the No Boys Cricket Club | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rise | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37334 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Sing Your Heart Out For The Lads | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | Loft Season | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37335 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Saturday 7 October 2000. England v. Germany - the last match at the old Wembley Stadium. The King Georg&s regulars meet to watch the World Cup qualifying game. As the match is played out on the big screen, other rivalries conic to the fore. Barry, the pub team's only black player, is also their star striker. He may have a Union Jack tattooed on his bum and chant 'Enger-land' along with the rest, but we soon realise that he is a barely tolerated outsider: when the landlady's teenage son has his mobile phone nicked by his 'mate', the racial divide is violently exposed. | |||||
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Slow Time | ||
| 1st Produced: | Schools Tour | 2005 | ||||
Company: | National Theatre's Education Department | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #79948 | |||
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Genre: | Youth Audiences | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Set in a young offender's institution the play depicts three young men and their fight to survive | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Souls | ||
| 1st Produced: | Highbury Grove School, London N5, UK | 2000 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Souls in Theatre Centre: Plays for Young People ed. Rosamunde Hutte, Aurora Metro, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37336 | |||
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Starstruck | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37337 | |||
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Synopsis: | a hilarious and moving snapshot of the hopes and broken dreams of a family in the Caribbean at a time when Hollywood heart-throb Stewart Granger lands in Kingston to shoot his latest movie | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sucker Punch | ||
| 1st Produced: | 18 Jun 2010 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1408131367 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #105899 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 1 | ||
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| 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 American powerhouse or naive cash cow? Two former friends step into the ring and face up to who they are. Sucker Punch looks back on what it was like to be young and Black in the 80s and asks if the right battles have been fought, let alone won. | |||||
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Suleman, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 10 Oct 2011 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849432276 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133237 | |||
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Genre: | piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Part of Sixty-Six Books: 21st-century writers speak to the King James Bible. Play is a response to the King James Bible book of 1 Kings | |||||
| The King James Version of the Bible (KJV) is a foundation stone of the English language. The KJV was composed as a collective project and written to be spoken. Sixty-Six Books has been created, in the spirit of the original, in the same way. Pulpit to print; stage to page; mediated through many forms oral and written, the KJV has, since its inception, been a fundamental part of written and spoken English.This is a work that has travelled to every continent of the globe. It has been shared as a melodic instrument of inspiration, illumination and mutual understanding; and it has also been wielded as a tool of colonial oppression. Sixty-Six Books is a fresh interpretation of the KJV for the new millennium, celebrating and challenging the traditions and achievements of this great work on the occasion of its 400th anniversary. The curators of this project have gathered together a formidable and inspiring line-up of the best established and emerging writing talent to produce a new version of the KJV for thetwenty-first century. Each writer has created anew a book of the KJV - as prose, poetry, drama, performance, song, or ground-breaking digital form. Each writer has spoken back to the KJV with untrammeled inventiveness of the imagination. The voices of Sixty-Six Books, drawn from across five continents, innovate, transmute, transpose, reinvent and talk back to four hundredyears of history. All the works that make up Sixty-Six Books are written to be spoken. Culminating in major performance events at the Bush Theatre and Westminster Abbey in 2011 in London, Sixty-Six Books is a contribution towards the mutual curiosity, tolerance, and force of collective enterprise and shared humanity that characterizes the international and ancient arts of writing and spoken performance | |||||
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There's Only One Wayne Matthews! | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74743 | |||
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Genre: | Youth Audiences | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Williams's play takes us back to 1978, when Viv Anderson, the Nottingham Forest fullback, be-came the first black footballerto play for England in an interna-tional match. Times are changing: for black teenager Carl Wilkins the future looks bright as his tryout at Chelsea beckons, even though he's been written off by his teachers and can barely read. To Wayne, dubbed "the Irish Pele" by his racist classmates because he is black and useless at footie, Carl is a hero. But in his eagerness to be good at football despite two left feet, Wayne neglects real friendships and overlooks his own talents. | |||||
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Unzipped | ||
| 1st Produced: | 16 Apr 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #122598 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Accessibility vs. Authenticity: Do We Sell Out to Sellout?(Thu)/Storytelleror History Maker: Who Do You Think You Are?/Post Multi-Culturalism: What Colour Are You Now? Talawa's Writer's Group (TWG) returns with Unzipped 2009, an unmissable season of play readings and impassioned discussion. This year Talawa has worked with Britain's most established Black and Asian playwrights to push writing boundaries. The Group includes, amongst others, Roy Williams, Malorie Blackman, Dipo Agboluaje and Kwame Kwei-Armah. In return these writers will share excerpts of their most exciting work for Unzipped 2009. This will be an unforgettable series of readings that will explore the future of Black and Asian theatre as thewriters and their work seek to answer key questions facing the industry. Now in its fourth year, Unzipped has become an unforgettable and provocative event. Expect unusual stories and controversial opinions. Book early to avoid disappointment. | |||||
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