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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
By Henry Muttoo, Cayman Islands In his foreword to the 1963 publication, The Artist in West Indian Society, the eminent West ...
The Lonely Londoners review — vivid portrait of young Trinidadians adrift in a cold ‘mother country’
But it also drives to the heart of Sam Selvon’s celebrated 1956 novel about the Windrush generation. Selvon chronicles the experiences of a group of young men and women who arrive in the ...
Labour has followed the Tories in embroiling itself in a crisis of trust, and it's the Lib Dems who stand to gain, writes ...
By Cristine Sabrina Khan Dr. Cristine Sabrina Khan is a PRODIG+ Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Stony ...
It’s adapted from a book by Sam Selvon and manages to be both funny and sad. It conveys a powerful message about the power of sticking together as a community. It thoroughly deserved the ...
(Georgina writes:) I first read Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners during my first months living away from home. The 1956 novel’s rhythms, prickly sensations and tragicomic shifts perfectly ...
Award-winning writer Ryan Bachoo has launched his latest novel, An Unending Search, a story set in rural South Trinidad in ...
Read our review of The Lonely Londoners, adapted by Roy Williams from Sam Selvon's novel, now in performances at the Kiln Theatre to 22 February. First published in 1956, Trinidadian writer Sam Selvon ...
revealing that it came “purely out of his love for literature” and was inspired by the works of celebrated Caribbean authors like VS Naipaul and Samuel Selvon. “In their books, I saw in my village ...
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