The playwright on his new play about Motown giant Marvin Gaye, absent fathers and why his work strikes a chord with black audiences in AmericaBafta and Evening Standard award-winning playwright Roy Williams, 48, grew up in Notting Hill, west London, the youngest of four born to Jamaican parents. His father left for America when he was two. When he started messing around at school, his mother hired a tutor for him who…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AM on May 8, 2016