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Death of England

The Plays
Series: Modern Plays
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Unless it’s a football match… maybe then or ’em… at the supermarket… food and football, eh, the Englishman common ground. Neutral territory for the masses. Yeah, a place where no ideas are shared, borrowed or worked through… Perfect. Following acclaimed seasons at the National Theatre, Clint... Read More
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Unless it’s a football match… maybe then or ’em… at the supermarket… food and football, eh, the Englishman common ground. Neutral territory for the masses. Yeah, a place where no ideas are shared, borrowed or worked through… Perfect.

Following acclaimed seasons at the National Theatre, Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’ extraordinary series of three state of the nation plays, Death of England comes to @sohoplace in the West End. These three interconnected plays are, by turns, exhilarating, profoundly moving, funny but furious, and deeply theatrical, available together in this collection.

Enjoy as a standalone experience or discover the connections between two or three of the plays as Michael, Delroy, Denise, and Carly navigate the joys and challenges of what it means to be British in 2024. The run starred Thomas Coombes (Baby Reindeer), Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You, Gangs of London), Erin Doherty (The Crown), and Sharon Duncan-Brewster (Dune) and was directed by Clint Dyer (NT Deputy Artistic Director). The 'uniquely brilliant' (Evening Standard) Death of England trilogy is unmissable.

This collection was published to coincide with the West End run of the Death of England trilogy, which ran from July to September 2024 at London’s @sohoplace.

Series: Modern Plays

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350525573

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 August 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Methuen Drama

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 190g

Pages: 168

About the Author

Clint Dyer: On stage he has worked with heralded directors like Mike Leigh, Simon Mcburney, Dominic Cooke, Micheal Attenbourgh, Jane Howel, Ian Brown, Mike Bradwell, Madani Yohonis, Gbolahan Obesisan, Dawn Walton, and the legendary Philip Hedley, etc. He starred on stage in the National Theatres Oliver winning show Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom directed by Dominic Cook, for which he won best actor in the I.A.R.Awards. Clint won Best actor at the British Urban Film Awards, Screen Nation Film and Television Awards, Liege International Film Festival and The Texas Black Film Festival for ‘SUS’ . He was also nominated for the Independent Spirit Award at the Screen Nation Film and Television Awards for ‘SUS’. Clint directed the Olivier, Evening Standard, TMA and What’s On Theatre Goers, nominated show ‘THE BIG LIFE’, at TRSE, bringing it to the Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue, makingmit the first Black British musical to go the West End. Also the soon to be seen ‘The Happy Tragedy Of Being Woke’ which Clint has written and will co-direct with Simon Mcburney for Complicite. Alongside this he is currently development with the BFI on a Raquel Delahay script called ‘Ciara’. As a writer, Clint is under commission with BBC Films , Theatre Royal Stratford East and The Royal National Theatre.

Roy Williams, OBE, graduated from Rose Bruford in 1995 with a first class BA Hons degree in Writing. The No Boys Cricket Club (Theatre Royal, Stratford East, 1996) won him nominations for the TAPS Writer of the Year Award 1996 and for New Writer of the Year Award 1996 by the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. He was the first recipient of the Alfred Fagon Award 1997 for Starstruck (Tricycle Theatre, London, 1998), which also won the 31st John Whiting Award and the EMMA Award 1999. Lift Off (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, 1999) was the joint winner of the George Devine Award 2000. His other theatre credits include Clubland (Royal Court, 2001), for which Roy won the Evening Standard Charles Wintour Award for the Most Promising Playwright; Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads (National Theatre, 2002, 2004); Sucker Punch (Royal Court, 2010). His screenplays include Offside, winner of a BAFTA for Best Schools Drama 2002. He was awarded the OBE for Services to Drama in the 2008 Birthday Honours List.

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