Grief, guilt and white working-class ‘fury’: Death of England heads to London’s West End

Clint Dyer and Roy Williams backstage. Death of England offers ‘an even-handed justice’, says Dyer, the deputy artistic director of the National Theatre. Photograph: Dave Benett/Getty

The co-writer of the Death of England series of plays has said the decade-long project has endured because, alongside difficult conversations about race and immigration, the plays have a sense of pride in being English.

Three of the plays are to be performed together at Soho Place in London this summer, taking a project that started life as a “microplay”, commissioned by the Guardian in collaboration with the Royal Court, to the West End.