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Don Warrington on Mustapha Matura: he brought the West Indies to British theatre by Interview By Chris Wiegand

The actor and director pays tribute to the Trinidadian playwright who has died aged 79 The first of Mustapha Matura's plays I saw was As Time Goes By at the Royal Court in London. It was 1971 and I was at drama school. Until then I hadn't seen a play dealing with immigrants in such an irreverent and funny way. It depicts the tenacity and imagination that this bunch of people found in themselves to cope with the situa…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM on November 1, 2019

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