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Red Pitch playwright Tyrell Williams: 'Young men have a lot of anger that they don't know what to do with'

by Anya Ryan

The writer has gone from creating viral comedy to a play about football and friendship between a group of teens amid the gentrification of south London. 'I'm never as nervous as when I played 11-a-side,' he says Tyrell Williams was on a bus through London's Elephant & Castle in 2018 when he noticed the football pitch he played on as a teenager had been built over. "It was an important place to me and my friend…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 7:54am on March 8, 2024