![]() ![]() After Dell’s death in 2009, he married Nicky Grainger in 2011. He and Dell retired to Yalding in Kent in 1992, where they became a popular couple running amateur drama seasons of open air Shakespeare and Drawing Room Drama. ![]() Williams was disappointed that the Christian denominations didn’t combine to take over the theatre. It caused controversy and heart-searching and MRA, faced with rising costs, eventually decided to sell the theatre. But when the theatre staged Vaclav Havel’s play Temptation in 1990, the production, starring Rula Lenska under the direction of James Roose-Evans, was considered too sexually suggestive for a Christian audience. In 1988 Williams became the Chair of Westminster Productions Ltd, the company that mounted the plays at the Westminster. It dealt with the tragic consequences of a hit-and-run car accident. His most moving play was Skeletons (1986), staged in the USA and Switzerland. His children’s play, Gavin and the Monster, ran at the Westminster Theatre from 1980 to 1981 and was published as a book (1981). ![]()
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