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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.

The play is produced by the RSC in the Swan Theatre, 10-20 January, 2007 Roy Williams has had considerable critical and popular success in recent years with plays such as Clubland, Sing Yer Hearts Out For The Lads, and Little Sweet Thing His plays appeal strongly to a young audience as well as the more traditional theatre audience in their depiction of street culture, menace and bravado in multi-cultural Britain

About the Author
Roy Williams was the first recipient of the Alfred Fagon Award for Starstruck in 1997 which also won the John Whiting Award for the same year. His other plays include Josie's Boys, Night and Day, Home Boys which was broadcast on Radio 4 and Lift Off (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs). His more recent work includes The Gift (Birmingham Rep/Tricycle Theatre 2000), Clubland (Royal Court 2001), Little Sweet Thing (2005), and Slow Time (developed as part of the National Theatre's education programme, 2005).

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'Williams has a remarkable talent for engineering unforced, truthful-seeming collisions between tragic emotion and irrelevant or blithely disreputable comedy' Independent - Paul Taylor 'Days of Significance is a frankly terrifying and utterly compelling examination of the morality of sending young men to fight a war when they are ill-equipped to do so in every way' Guardian - Michael Billington 'Brace yourself: this is tough, important stuff, alarmingly well done' Mail on Sunday - Georgina Brown 'Williams, while he does not exonerate the behaviour of the soldiers, draws an immensely compassionate portrait of people propelled into hell' Financial Times - Sarah Hemming 'Here is a state-of-the-nation play in which Williams leaves his comfort zone of writing about the black community and stretches himself imaginatively with terrific results' Tribune - Aleks Sierz



Book Information
ISBN 9780713683288
Author Roy Williams
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 98g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 8mm

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