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Days of Significance
Roy Williams
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Description for Days of Significance
Paperback. Days of Significance is the new work by Roy Williams commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and staged at the Swan Theatre in January 2007. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 112.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Series
Modern Plays
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780713683288
SKU
V9780713683288
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-12
About Roy Williams
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Days of Significance
'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 ... Read more