When your local football pitch has been a home from home, a place where you've laughed, fought and forged friendships, what happens when it's under threat?
Tyrell Williams is a writer and director for stage and screen. He co-created, co-wrote and directed the viral web series #HoodDocumentary, which had over three million views on YouTube. Following its online acclaim, #HoodDocumentary was commissioned as a web series for BBC Three, which Tyrell directed and co-wrote.
His plays include Red Pitch (Ovalhouse Theatre, London, 2019; Bush Theatre, London, 2022; longlisted for The Alfred Fagon Award).
"Fierce, affectionate and effortlessly funny... shares a similar wit and focus to his viral web series #HoodDocumentary."
Guardian
"90 minutes of end-to-end stuff... the plot is pacy and exciting. The language is rich and vivid. It's also very funny... It's still rare to see a play about young, black, working-class youths on our stages: rarer still to see one in which they are celebrated like this."
Evening Standard
"Intelligent, nuanced – an unbelievable debut... phenomenal... true mastery of craft. It's a next-level coming-of-age story."
The Stage
"Sharp, funny and deeply poignant... feels wholly authentic... an eloquent love letter to our increasingly threatened public spaces... Tyrell Williams is a rising talent of the first rank. Theatre needs voices like his."
Whatsonstage
"A triumphant take on flux and football in a fast-changing south London neighbourhood."