Two plays by a young British playwright who is fast making a name for himself. Williams is winner of the 1998-99 John Whiting Award for Best New Play and 1998 Alfred Fagon Award (both for Starstruck) and 1996 TAPS Writer of the Year Award Starstruck: When Hollywood heartthrob Stewart Granger lands in Kingston to shoot his latest movie, the whole town goes crazy. Will Dennis become a star or does girlfriend Pammy have other ambitions? And will Gravel's new money-making scheme leave his wife seeking comfort elsewhere?The No Boys Cricket Club: Coping alone with her troublesome family and warring neighbours in 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 all-female No Boys Cricket Club.

Starstruck' & 'The No-Boys Cricket Club' (Modern Plays)

Literature & Fiction

Williams, Roy

Dramas & Plays

Methuen Drama

A new play from the award-winning playwright, published to coincide with its premiere at the Royal Court on 15 June 2001 
 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. "A young writer who may well have enough wit and insight to succeed Mustapha Matura as our leading black dramatist" - Benedict Nightingale, The Times
"Williams, a young, prolific and successful black British writer. . .certainly has a gift" - Sunday Times

Clubland (Methuen Drama Modern Plays)

The first collection of plays by the multi-award winning playwright and winner of the 2001 "Most Promising Playwright" Evening Standard Theatre AwardTHE NO BOYS CRICKET CLUB (1996): 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. STARSTRUCK (1997): is 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. It was the winner of the John Whiting Award and the Alfred Fagon award (1997). LIFT OFF (1999): When old time school friends Mal and Tone begin to break their lifelong friendship, bitter prejudices are brought to the fore. Joint-winner of the George Devine Award 2000."Williams' writing snaps and crackles, his characters burst with life, emotion and contradiction" Guardian"Williams, a young, prolific and successful black British writer...certainly has a gift" Sunday Times"Roy Williams shows himself to be a sassy, sophisticated diviner of the human heart" Evening Standard

Williams Plays: 1: The No Boys Cricket Club; Starstruck; Lift Off (Contemporary Dramatists)

A controversial new play from the winner of the Evening Standard 2001 Most Promising Playwright AwardSaturday 7 October 2000. England v Germany, The King George v The Duke of York. Keegan resigns and Barry plays a blinder. Tensions erupt in a South London pub as England lose again.Roy Williams' stunning new play is published to tie in with the opening of the 2002 National Theatre "Transformations" new writing season.

Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads (Methuen Drama)

Humor & Entertainment

The new play by Roy Williams, winner of the Evening Standard's Most Promising Playwright Award, 2001
 A boy is found dead. D.C. Joe Stephens must return to his old neighbourhood to investigate. Shanice was the last person to see him, and studiously avoids his enquiries into her boyfriend Emile's gang of friends. Meanwhile Shanice's best friend Ronnie saw something that she swears she will never tell. But when a £30K reward is offered and Ibiza beckons, the girls and boys face the biggest test of street loyalty in their young lives. FALLOUT provides a terrifying insight into a council estate faced with a gang murder of a kind all too familiar in our inner cities.Praise for Roy Williams' work: "Williams' writing snaps and crackles, his characters burst with life, emotion and contradiction" - Guardian; "Roy Williams shows himself to be a sassy, sophisticated diviner of the human heart" - Evening Standard

Fallout (Modern Plays)

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", Ade's with Sandra but playing the field and Nate's a proud father, in this urban drama of race and sexual politics in West London.
The Gift: Since her childhood, when she left Jamaica for England, Heather's sister has claimed to have the gift of raising spirits from the dead. When her son is murdered, Heather returns to Jamaica and begs her sister to bring him back to life.Winner of the Evening Standard's Most Promising Playwright Award, 2001 - shortlisted for Best Play Award 2003
"Williams' writing snaps and crackles, his characters burst with life, emotion and contradiction" Guardian
"Roy Williams shows himself to be a sassy, sophisticated diviner of the human heart" Evening Standard

Williams Plays: 2: Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads; Clubland; The Gift (Contemporary Dramatists)

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...

Little Sweet Thing

Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads

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.

Days of Significance (Modern Plays)

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The Midland Railway: A New History

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