Slow Time by Roy Williams

Slow Time features three teenage boys, Nabs, Delroy and Ashley, one black, one Asian and one white. The action takes place in the hour before dawn after Delroy's first long night in a young offender institution. Each lad tells some of the story of how he got there and what might be waiting when he gets out; Nabs is itching to beat up the new boy and Ashley is on the brink. Their stories give us an insight into the crime, peer pressure and bullying that led to their incarceration.
This scheme of work offers some ideas for exploring the text using improvisation and devising with both on-text and off-text work as well as some practitioner-based ideas. It will begin student discussion on the text and its characters and enable students to start to explore the characters in the play to support their portrayal of them.