New drama by Roy Williams and Clint Dyer will be given socially distanced production in Olivier theatre
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The National Theatre in London is to welcome back audiences for the first time since March with a new play whose main character asks himself: “How British am I as a black man?”
Written by Roy Williams and Clint Dyer, it is a sequel to the pair’s monologue Death of England, about football and national identity, which was a hit earlier this year in the National’s Dorfman theatre. Death of England closed in March, days before the National shut its doors because of the coronavirus crisis. The new play, entitled Death of England: Delroy, is another monologue and will be directed by Dyer and staged for a socially distanced audience in the larger Olivier theatre. Dyer and Williams will become the first black British dramatists to have a full-scale production of their play in the Olivier. It will star Giles Terera, who won an Olivier award for playing Aaron Burr in the musical Hamilton in London.
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