As something of an immigrant to the capital myself in the long hot summer of 1984, I gobbled up Absolute Beginners, Colin MacInnes’s novel of an outsider embracing the temptations and dangers of ...
Roy Williams’ fluid adaptation brings Sam Selvon’s 1956 novel about the Windrush generation to London’s Kiln Theatre ...
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The HMT Windrush brought the first Windrush generation to the UK to help rebuild the country as it faced labour shortages following World War Two. As part of the Windrush Anchor Foundation ...
In The Lonely Londoners, Roy Williams lifts the words from the pages of Sam Selvon’s seminal 1956 novel about the Windrush ...
Roy Williams’ tight adaptation of Sam Selvon’s 1956 rather meandering novel The Lonely Londoners continues that education. It ...