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Williams Plays: 4: Sucker Punch; Category B; Joe Guy; Baby Girl; There’s Only One Wayne Matthews
Author(s): Roy Williams (Author)
- Publisher: Methuen Drama
- Publication Date: 12 Sept. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 418 pages
- ISBN-10: 1472520696
- ISBN-13: 9781472520692
Book Description
‘[Williams’s] plays have brought the experience of black urban youth onto the stage’ Observer Sucker Punch: ‘As usual with Williams, the dialogue is crisp and bespoke: motives are mixed, nobody is a hero, nothing is just black and white.’ The Times Joe Guy: ‘Williams’s dialogue ricochets around the stage like gunfire . . . energetic, exciting and entertaining.’ Stage Category B: ‘Category B is a harrowing play, but one shot through with both dark humour and tentative flickers of hope’. Daily Telegraph Baby Girl: ‘The shocking thing about Roy Williams’s Baby Girl is that it argues that there is a cyclical pattern to teenage pregnancy . . . Williams paints a rivetingly plausible picture of a world in which mothers and daughters are sexual rivals, ‘virgin’ is the ultimate peer insult and the school gates are a fertile hunting ground for male predators.’ Guardian There’s Only One Wayne Matthews: ‘Williams’s writing is punchy . . . Wayne’s gradual understanding of the realities of the world make this a touching coming-of-age drama.’ Guardian
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About the Author
Roy Williams, OBE, worked as an actor before turning to writing full-time in 1990. He is one of the most important contemporary dramatists, with a particular relevance and popularity among young people.
