The Gift
by Roy Williams

A new play by the award-winning writer, which premiered at the Birmingham Rep in 2000 and transferred to London's Tricycle theatre

"Yu gwan on about love, you can't even si love when it right under yer nose"

Since their childhood, when Heather left Jamaica to start a new life in England, her half-sister Bernice always claimed to have 'the gift' of raising spirits from the dead.

Thirty years later, when Heather returns to the island after the murder of her much-loved son, she offers Bernice the deeds to the family house - if she can bring him back..."Roy Williams shows himself to be a sassy, sophisticated diviner of the human heart" (Evening Standard)