Books By Mustapha Matura - Author

Mustapha Matura was born in Trinidad and came to England in 1961. His first full length play , As Time Goes By, was staged at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh and at the Royal Court, London. He won the Evening Standard's Most Promising Playwright Award in 1974 for Play Mas, which opened at the Royal Court and transferred to the West End. His other plays include Rum an' Coca Cola (Royal Court Theatre and off-Broadway, 1976); Another Tuesday and More, More (The Factory, London, 1978); A Dying Business (Riverside Studios, 1980); One Rule (Riverside Studios, 1981); Meetings ( New `York 1981 and Hampstead Theatre, London 1982)The Playboy of the West Indies (Oxford Playhouse, 1984, Tricycle Theatre , New York 1988 and produced for BBC television, 1985); Trinidad Sisters (Tricycle Theatre, 1988) and The Coup (Royal National Theatre, 1991).
He co-founded the Black Theatre Co-operative with the director Charlie Hanson in 1978 to st