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The Lonely Londoners at Jermyn Street Theatre review: a bold and timely post-Windrush drama
It’s not always totally successful, but it’s an exciting piece of theatre about Londoners who were, and often still are, shamefully misrepresented and mistreated. Jermyn Street Theatre ...
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Review: THE LONELY LONDONERS, Kiln Theatre
Company of The Lonely Londoners Photo Credit: Steve Gregson The production does not shy away from uncomfortable truths; the men have great camaraderie and spirit, but there is darkness too ...
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The Lonely Londoners, Kiln Theatre review - Windrush Generation arrive in a London full of opportunities, but not for them
Written a couple of years earlier and set a couple of miles east, Sam Selvon’s seminal book, The Lonely Londoners, focuses more specifically on Caribbean immigrants’ experience of a metropolis ...
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The Lonely Londoners
In The Lonely Londoners, Roy Williams lifts the words from the pages of Sam Selvon’s seminal 1956 novel about the Windrush generation in London and sears them onto the stage. Ebenezer Bamgboye ...
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The Lonely Londoners review — vivid portrait of young Trinidadians adrift in a cold ‘mother country’
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There’s a wordless passage in Roy Williams’ cracking adaptation of The Lonely Londoners when Henry ...
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Photos: THE LONELY LONDONERS in Rehearsal at the Kiln Theatre
Will the London fog dampen Galahad’s dreams? Or will these Lonely Londoners make a home in a city that sees them as a threat? Following its sold out run at Jermyn Street Theatre, ...
Londonist26d
Review: Sam Selvon's Quintessential London Novel Is Now A Must-See Play
Image: Steve Gregson Sam Selvon's comical Windrush novel The Lonely Londoners reimagined with interpretive dance? Sounds iffy, doesn't it. Writer Roy Williams/director Ebenezer Bamgboye's ...
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A Joyous Exploration with Playwright Roy Williams
Cerys soundtracks your Sunday and chats to playwright Roy Williams about his adaptation of The Lonely Londoners. Plus she marks anniversaries from John Coltrane and Louis Armstrong Show more Cerys ...
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The Lonely Londoners
Will the London fog dampen Galahad’s dreams? Or will these Lonely Londoners make a home in a city that sees them as a threat?
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The Lonely Londoners at the Kiln Theatre – review
Following a successful run at Jermyn Street Theatre, The Lonely Londoners has returned to the stage in Roy Williams’ dynamic adaptation of Sam Selvon’s Windrush novel. The play captures the fierce ...
This is Local London24d
Review of The Lonely Londoners at Kiln Theatre Kilburn
Trinidad author Sam Selvon's 1956 novel The Lonely Londoners offers a lyrical, contemporary chronicle of what that felt like - here sensitively adapted by Roy Williams, and beautifully directed ...