Royal Shakespeare Company, directed by Maria Aberg.
Written in response to Much Ado About Nothing and performed by the RSC’s Pericles and The Winter’s Tale company, Roy Williams’ Days of Significance is set in the South East of England and Basra in Southern Iraq. Two young soldiers join their friends for a drunken night out before they leave for active service in Iraq. Their complex love lives and mortal fears directly impact on their tour of duty. Explosive and thought-provoking, Days of Significance gives a fresh insight into war and its consequences. Roy Williams looks at how the naïve and malformed moral codes of these young men have catastrophic reverberations for the West’s moral authority.
Roy Williams’ recent work includes Sing Yer Heart out for the Lads (National Theatre 2002/Pilot Theatre UK Tour 2006), Little Sweet Thing (Nottingham Playhouse/Birmingham Repertory Theatre/The New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich 2005) and Fallout (The Royal Court Theatre 2003). In 2001 he won the Evening Standard award for most promising playwright.
Days of Significance is directed by Maria Aberg. Recent credits include Shrieks of Laughter at Soho Theatre and Stallerhof at Southwark Playhouse. Maria is Associate Director for Dominic Cooke's RSC productions of The Winter’s Tale and Pericles and was Assistant Director for The Crucible, also directed by Dominic Cooke.
Days of Significance runs at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon from 10 - 20 January 2007.
Additional information
This production contains strong language and explicit scenes of an adult nature.
£5 promenade tickets can be booked via the RSC Ticket Hotline on 0870 609 1110.
