ROY WILLIAMS   (1968 - )


Roy Williams
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Plays by Roy Williams

ROY WILLIAMS
Absolute Beginners
1st Produced:
2007
Company:
Fuel
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
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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.
- Theatre List
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ROY WILLIAMS
Angel House
1st Produced:
2008
Company:
Eclipse Theatre
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
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.
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ROY WILLIAMS
Baby Girl
1st Produced:
2007
Company:
Young Actors Company, Cambridge
1st Published:
in NT Connections2007, Faber and Faber, London, 2007
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
short play
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
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.
- Lyn Gardner, Guardian
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ROY WILLIAMS
Category B
1st Produced:
12 Oct 2009
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
978-1408127445
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Category B
Set in a category B prison. Sule rules over a wing but is looking for a new number two
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ROY WILLIAMS
Chain Play, A
1st Produced:
2007
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, (not for commercial sale), 2007
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
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:
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ROY WILLIAMS
Clubland
1st Produced:
2001
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
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
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ROY WILLIAMS
Days Of Significance
1st Produced:
2007
Company:
Royal Shakespeare Company
1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
10
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
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.
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ROY WILLIAMS
Fallout
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
7
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
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.
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ROY WILLIAMS
Gift, The
1st Produced:
2000
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
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. . .
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ROY WILLIAMS
Joe Guy
1st Produced:
2007
Company:
Tiata Fahodzi
1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
7
Female
6
Parts Other:
extras, radio voices
Notes:
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?
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ROY WILLIAMS
Josie's Lads
1st Produced:
Red Ladder TC
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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ROY WILLIAMS
Lift Off
1st Produced:
1999
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
When old time school friends Mal and Tone begin to break their lifelong friendship, bitter prejudices are brought to the fore.
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ROY WILLIAMS
Little Sweet Thing
1st Produced:
New Wolsey, Ipswich
2005
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
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
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ROY WILLIAMS
Local Boy
1st Produced:
2000
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
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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.
Bill Hagerty, News of the World
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ROY WILLIAMS
Night And Day
1st Produced:
Theatre Venture
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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ROY WILLIAMS
No-Boys Cricket Club, The
1st Produced:
1996
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
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
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ROY WILLIAMS
Rise
1st Produced:
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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ROY WILLIAMS
Sing Your Heart Out For The Lads
1st Produced:
2002
Company:
Loft Season
1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
12
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
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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ROY WILLIAMS
Slow Time
1st Produced:
Schools Tour
2005
Company:
National Theatre's Education Department
1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
-
Youth Audiences
Parts:
Male
3
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Set in a young offender's institution the play depicts three young men and their fight to survive
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ROY WILLIAMS
Souls
1st Produced:
Highbury Grove School, London N5, UK
2000
Company:
1st Published:
Souls in Theatre Centre: Plays for Young People ed. Rosamunde Hutte, Aurora Metro, 2003
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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ROY WILLIAMS
Starstruck
1st Produced:
1998
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
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
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ROY WILLIAMS
Sucker Punch
1st Produced:
18 Jun 2010
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Right, you know the rules, watch the low blows, if its a knock down, no messing about, go straight to your corner, and dont come out till called for, are we clear? Touch gloves, lets go. In the red corner: Leon Davidson  Black British champ or Uncle Tom? In the blue corner: Troy Augustus  American powerhouse or naïve 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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ROY WILLIAMS
There's Only One Wayne Matthews!
1st Produced:
2007
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
Youth Audiences
Parts:
Male
2
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
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.
- Lyn Gardner, Guardian
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