Product Description

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #294174 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 114 pages

About the Author
Roy Williams graduated from Rose Bruford in 1995 with a first class BA Hons Degree in Writing. THE NO BOYS CRICKET CLUB won him a nomination for New Writer of the Year by the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. He 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).