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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...