Mustapha matura biography
Mustapha matura biography
Mustapha matura plays.
Mustapha Matura
Trinidad and Tobago playwright (–)
Mustapha Matura (17 December – 29 October )[1][2] was a Trinidadianplaywright living in London.
Characterised by critic Michael Billington as "a pioneering black playwright who opened the doors for his successors", Matura was the first British-based dramatist of colour to have a play in London's West End, with Play Mas in [3] He was described by the New Statesman as "the most perceptive and humane of Black dramatists writing in Britain."[4]
Early years
Born Noel Mathura in to an East Indian father and Creole mother[5] in Port of Spain, Trinidad,[3] he changed his name when he became a writer, and explained: "I liked the sound of it It was the sixties."[6]
Leaving the Caribbean, he travelled by ship to England where he arrived in ; as he recalled in a interview: "We went to London and found out the sophistication of our dreams was just a gloss.
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