![]() ![]() ![]() Williams wrote it as a one-man show for the French actor and mime artist Michel Orphelin. ![]() Williams was Artistic Director of the Westminster Theatre from 1975 to 1990, and became renowned for his contemporary Christian dramas which were redemptive and often profoundly moving. His most successful play was, unexpectedly, Poor Man, Rich Man, a modern take on the life of St Francis of Assisi. His plays negotiated the liminal space between Christianity and secularism, life and death, the human and the animal.Ī close friend of Agnes Leakey - aunt of Kenyan conservationist Richard - Williams was embedded in the world of wildlife protection for much of his life, and surrounded by those who sought to bring the reconciliation of his plays into the world beyond the text, and use it to reconcile the African ecosystem with its human neighbours. Hugh Steadman Williams is one such example: a playwright whose work focused on the healing process of reconciliation and resolution. Every now and then we must take a moment to remember and to celebrate the life of a figure entwined in the world of African conservation. ![]()
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