Alfred Fagon Selected Plays

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Despite the legacy of his eponymous award, Alfred Fagon's stage works have often been forgotten due to them not being available. This anthology of selected plays brings together his shorter works for the first time into one volume that expands his legacy and confirms his place as one of Britain's key writing talents of the twentieth century. Alfred Fagon is one of British theatre's most well-known names, partly due to the commemorative award in his honour that was established following his death in 1996 to recognise Black British playwrights from the Caribbean, resident in the United Kingdom. Originally an actor, his writing for the stage, film and television grew throughout the early 1970s, before his breakaway hit Death of A Black Man was produced at the Hampstead Theatre in 1975. Brought together with a critical introduction from a key collaborator, this collection also includes reflections and responses from a number of historic winners of the Alfred Fagon award, such as Roy Williams and Juliet Gilkes Romero. The plays include: A Day in the Bristol Air Raid Shelter Adventure Inside Thirteen Four Hundred Pounds No Soldiers in St. Paul's Shakespeare Country Small World Weekend Lovers