Fallout

Fallout

by RoyWilliams (Author)

Synopsis

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 GBP30K 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

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 15 Sep 2004

ISBN 10: 0413773671
ISBN 13: 9780413773678

Author Bio
Roy Williams began writing plays in 1990 and is now arguably one of the country's leading dramatists. In 2000 he was the joint-winner of The George Devine Award and in 2001 he was awarded the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright. He was awarded the OBE for Services to Drama in the 2008 Birthday Honours List. His Plays include Category B (Tricycle Theatre), Angel House (Eclipse Theatre, UK Tour), Days Of Significance (RSC), Joe Guy (Tiata Fahodzi), There's Only One Wayne Matthews (Polka Theatre), Baby Girl (NT Connections), Absolute Beginners (Lyric Hammersmith), Little Sweet Thing (Nottingham Playhouse), Slow Time (NT Education), Fallout (Royal Court Theatre), Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads (NT), Clubland (Royal Court Theatre), The Gift (Birmingham Rep/Tricycle Theatre), Local Boy (Hampstead Theatre), Souls (Theatre Centre), Life Off (Royal Court) , Starstruck (Tricycle, Winner Of John Whiting Award, Alfred Fagon Award & Emma Award For Best Play), Josie's Boy (Red Ladder Theatre Co) and The No-Boys Cricket Club (Theatre Royal, Stratford East).