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Welcome Home Jacko

By Mustapha Matura
Setting: 
Youth club in London
No. acts: 
2
Cast total: 
7
Male cast: 
5
Female cast: 
2

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Synopsis

Welcome Home Jacko was inspired by a visit Matura made to a youth club in Sheffield in the 1970s. The play examines the lives of four West Indian teenagers and is concerned with the experience of disaffected second generation young black Britons.

Original production

Opening night: 
12/06/1979
Company:
 
Theatre: 
The Factory
Original Cast:
Chris Tummings Dole
Alrick Riley Fret
Dorett Thompson Gail
Gordon Case Jacko
Victor Romero Evans Marcus
Maggie Shevlin Sandy
Trevor Laird Zippy
Production Team:
Charlie Hanson Director

Publications

Title Year Publisher NT Library
Six Plays: As Time Goes By; Nice; Play Mas; Independence; Welcome Home Jacko; Meetings 1991 Methuen Drama No

Union Catalogue

Link Series Reference Archive Info
Press reviews NTC/P/T/3/013 Future Histories at Goldsmiths, University of London
Poster (A1) NTC/P/T/1/5/2/001 Future Histories at Goldsmiths, University of London  
Scripts NTC/P/T/1/5/3 Future Histories at Goldsmiths, University of London  
Production photographs NTC/P/T/1/5/4/001 Future Histories at Goldsmiths, University of London