Cherelle Skeete (left) and Suzette Llewellyn in The Fellowship
(Picture: © Robert Day)Veteran playwright Roy Williams’ latest work at Hampstead Theatre is a three-generational family drama, ambitiously tackling the complexities of Black British identity and sisterhood.
Representing the Windrush generation is the dying, elderly mum never seen on stage but who was narrowly saved from deportation only because her family was fortunate enough to find her papers. Then there are her chalk-and-cheese daughters Marcia (Suzette Llewellyn) and Dawn (Cherrelle Skeete, in a last-minute cast change), and Dawn’s lazy but charming partner Tony (Trevor Laird). Making up the third generation are Dawn’s teenage son Jermaine (Ethan Hazzard) and his white girlfriend Simone (Rosie Day), who is seemingly leading him astray.
