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- Another Tuesday 1978
- As Time Goes By 1971
Mustapha Matura’s first full-length play, As Time Goes By won the George Devine and John Whiting awards in 1971. A satirical comedy about... - Black Women, The 1978
The Black Women explores the lonely, alienated lives of African American women in New York. - Come Jubilee 1977
- Indian 1970
Indian is an entertaining slice of life set in a West Indian pad near Westbourne Grove, London. - Island, The 1973
Two political prisoners in the Robben Island maximum security prison perform lengthy backbreaking mimes. Part of A South African Season. - Jero's Metamorphosis 1974
- Masada 1978
- More More 1978
- My Enemy 1970
My Enemy shows the attempts of a white MP to verbally destroy a Black Power leader who is having an affair with his daughter. - On The Out 1977
- Pantomime 1978
Pantomine is a fast pace comedy set on the Caribbean island of Tobago. In the hope of entertaining future guests, an English Hotel owner... - Say Hallelujah 1977
Say Hallelujah is a comedy set around the domestic and religious exploits of a long suffering easy going West Indian grocer and his... - School Leaver, The 1978
'The School Leaver is about a young black man in the last year of his school. He finds staying on futile and decides to leave and earn a... - School's Out 1975
The play follows new idealistic headteacher Russ Dacres' doomed efforts to turn the school into a new centre for learning. - Teresa 1979
Alton Kumalo's main protagonist Teresa, finds herself trapped between the conflicting cultures of her native Zambia and the English... - Dialogue 1970
An episode, which obliquely shows the dangers for black people of succumbing to society's mad desire for consumer goods and forgetting... - Party 1970
- Bakerloo Line 1972
A black man meets a white woman at a liberal party in London. - 11 Josephine House 1972
A black family are trying to adjust to the temptations of English Life; a black preacher falls from grace. - Black By Night 1972
- Gbana Bendu 1973
- Nice 1973
- Sweet Talk 1973
Set in a single room whose walls define its characters' lives, Sweet Talk, the most widely performed of Michael Abbensetts' plays, is a... - The Bacchae 1973
- Sizwe Bansi is Dead 1973
Sizwe Bansi is Dead written collaboratively with South African actors John Kani and Winston Ntshona explores the dehumanising treatment... - Body and Soul 1974
- Storm Baby, A 1974
- Play Mas 1974
Play Mas recreates the impact of the heady political momentum generated by the People's National Movement in Trinidad in the early... - X 1974
- Swamp Dweller's, The 1975
- Sherry and Wine 1976
- Parcel Post 1976
A supposed virgin bride travels from Africa to join the bridegroom in London. All they know of each other is from photographs. - Bread 1976
- Rum an' Coca Cola 1976
- Lament for Rastafari 1977
A vast historical and geographical panorama of the trials of Rastafarian life. Set in Jamaica, New York and England, the play begins with... - Alterations 1978
Alterations is a comedy set in a tailor's shop, inspired by a real visit to a small room off Carnaby Street where two black tailors had... - Independence 1979
- Mister Biko 1979
- Welcome Home Jacko 1979
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...