The Fellowship (London)
The Fellowship (London)
78% 2 reviews
78%
(2 Ratings)
Positive
50%
Mixed
50%
Negative
0%
Members say
Funny, Relevant, Ambitious, The acting was on another level

About the Show

Roy Williams' tale about two sisters who find that their lives have gone on divergent paths.

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Critic Reviews (8)

The Stage (UK)
June 28th, 2022

" 'Roy Williams’ new play occasionally leans heavily into pejorative stereotypes – which can sometimes feel uncomfortable to watch – but his talent for excavating the depths of the world of Black Britishness is undisputable."
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The London Evening Standard
June 28th, 2022

" 'Williams’ script feels a little overstuffed. Getting into everything from infidelity to political scandal to gang violence, there are too many plot points being flung about. We don’t actually get to see any of it happening though, we’re just told that it does."
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The Telegraph (UK)
June 28th, 2022

"Roy Williams's [play] dares to hold a mirror up to prejudice within the black community, but the drama doesn't entirely gel ... Watchable, certainly – but missable, regrettably, too."
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Time Out London
June 28th, 2022

"‘The Fellowship’ is one of those stories that you emerge from feeling like you've gone on an epic journey with the people in it. It's full of moments that stretch out and become dreamlike, aided by designer Libby Watson's wonderfully surreal set with its long curving staircase. But it's also full of a political heft that punches through decades and speaks directly to the post-Brexit present day."
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WhatsOnStage
June 29th, 2022

"It is dramatic, but feels like the setting for a different play, not an intimate series of conversations where tensions across generations are exposed. The writing is warm and funny; the set is alienating."
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The Times (UK)
June 28th, 2022

"Roy Williams has created a portrait of three generations of a West Indian family in which two middle-aged sisters, both activists in their youth, reflect on where life and politics have taken a wrong turning. ... I wish I could say he’d been successful, but The Fellowship fails on just about every level. "
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The Arts Desk
June 29th, 2022

"It feels to me as if Williams has lost control of the material, and that no one has been brave enough to edit his work. The result is that a great idea for a play, structured by means of successive duologues, is buried in a frustratingly verbose and baggy script, which has some great clashes of attitude, but very little dramatic development."
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The Guardian (UK)
June 29th, 2022

"There are sophisticated flashes of confrontation between the sisters but, stretched longer than two and a half hours, the script is slow and bloated. Jokes are repeated – one about Amazon’s Alexa initially brings laughter but eventually fatigues. It takes a while before each scene moves from being a shouting match and settles to drive this big-life tale along."
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