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Dying Business, A

By Mustapha Matura

Year staged: 1980

Opening night: 15/07/1980

Theatre Company: Black Theatre Co-operative; 1979

Staged in: Riverside Studios

Cast Size: 6

Synopsis

Set in 1980s Trinidad, Roy, a young man, returns from England to attend his father’s funeral. With his widowed mother still mourning the less of her husband, Roy attempts to raise money to continue his father’s legacy through a trust fund set in England. But as the funeral unfolds, old tensions begin to surface as family and friends seem more interested in Roy’s father’s money and possessions than honouring his memory, exposing secrets, greed, family tensions and the complicated ways people deal with death and inheritance.

Production Team

Michael Joyce

Director

Additional Materials

Link to Playscript

Playscript

Ref: MPS 982

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