#nigel williams

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lotf script info!!

i’m really enjoying reading this play :) there are some major differences from the book though

-jack HATES simon. hates him more than anyone else

-roger is NOT from the choir, samneric are

-piggy is mostly made fun of not for his size, specs, or “assma” (not ass-mar), but for his cockney accent

-piggy’s actually kinda stupid. simons the nerdy one, once called professor cambourne by jack

-simon genuinely thinks he’s from another planet

-simon canonically has fits where he hallucinates

-maurice’s last name is walsh?!??

-when simon meets roger, he asks what school he goes to. roger says “a nowhere school” and simon flirtatiously replies “i thought i’d seen you before”. jack then mocks simon for his prophetic dreams??

-ralph plays the flute!

-maurice and bill and ralph play rugby. simon doesn’t like it

-piggy goes to barnabas high, ralph goes to upton, and jack + the choir go to godstone

btw i got the script for like 10 bucks on amazon. it’s by nigel williams and was the only lotf play officially approved by william golding

[mariocki]

Play 18: Class Enemy by Nigel Williams

First performed: Royal Court Theatre, London, 1978

Quote: "Lissen. Ol' Iron wants a lesson. Right? So. Woss ter stop us teachin'? You never know. We might learn sunnink." (Sky-light)

Stage direction: [Drying up. In danger of betraying some feeling.]

Notable cast: Phil Daniels originated the role of Iron, while Daniel Day-Lewis took the part for a 1980 production at the Old Vic. The debut cast included Brian Croucher and Perry Benson.

Notes: an acerbic, often shocking denunciation of societal failings in late 70s, inner city London; specifically Williams is tackling education and deprived youth, but it's clear that his remit is actually much larger and that a culture of abandonment and poverty (financial, but also a poverty of intelligence, of care and empathy) is his real target. Critics drew comparisons with both Waiting for Godot and Golding's Lord of the Flies, and I understand why, but both comparisons rather miss the point: Class Enemy was a reflection of something actually happening, there and then, and which to our shame continues to happen across a UK which is as divided and unequal as it ever was. Williams' style - the heavy, near phonetic rendering of the boy's accents and vernacular - takes a little time to get used to, and some of the references have naturally dated the play. In other respects it remains horribly, powerfully resonant.

Read: for the first time

[markedforruin]

Some frames from a TikTok i made last night! This is the Catch-A-Camper gang, from my second Creepypasta story!

We have Hannah Myers, Nigel Williams, Georgia Hudson, and Jeffery Tang.

All on a quest with Hannah to find out who killed her grandma, and avenge her.

Feel free to ask stuff about them! I wanna do an art QnA!

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Sweetheart: Sex, boys and girls, is a matter a' one a vese findin' one a' vese an' 'en 'ammerin' back an' forward like a steam 'ammer fer a couple a' minutes. Any questions?

Iron: Vis still don' rung chroo ter me Sweet'eart.

Sweetheart: Sex is wot 'appens when a boy bumble bee buzzes 'frough ver fields in summer an' sees a flower. When 'e sees ver flower, ver bumble bee buzzes up to it an' 'overs over it. Ven 'e fucks it rigid. Thass sex. Oh - an' birds do it an' all.

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Nigel Williams, Class Enemy (1978)

[diasdelfuego]

You’ve a marvellous talent for hypocrisy. You have a way with language that spells away your true feelings.

— from Nigel Williams’s Star Turn

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The Storyteller: Greek Myths (4 episodes, 1991)

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Sweetheart: 'Ey. They ain't gonna leave us 'ere ter die are they?

Sky-light: 'Course vey ain't.

Iron: 'Ow joo know?

Sky-light: 'Cos I know. Vere teachers ain't they? 'Ass their job. Ter look after us.

Iron: They can't look after us though can they?

Sweetheart: I mean it ain't -

Sky-light: They can keep chryin'.

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Nigel Williams, Class Enemy (1978)

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