The Nightingales (NHB Modern Plays)

Under the watchful eye of Steven, their choirmaster, Connie, Ben, Diane and Bruno gather every week in the village hall to practise their accomplished acapella singing. They are a motley crew, but whatever their differences, whatever the problems they may have at home, all are happily bound together in their shared love of music. Until one day Maggie knocks on the door. Soon she is urging them to enter Talentfest, a potentially life-changing route to Britain's Got Talent. In the weeks that follow, loyalties will be tested, tempers will fray and lives will indeed be changed - but not in the way that any of them had quite anticipated. William Gaminara's play The Nightingales was premiered on a UK tour in 2018.

William Gaminara is an English actor, screenwriter and playwright. His plays include The Nightingales (UK tour, 2018), Three Lions (Edinburgh, 2013; St James Theatre, London, 2015) and According to Hoyle (Hampstead Theatre, 1995). As an actor he is best known for playing Leo Dalton in Silent Witness from 2002-2013, and Dr Richard Locke in BBC Radio 4's long-running soap The Archers.