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Alfred Fagon

ALFRED FAGON

  (1937 - 1986)
Nationality:    Jamaican
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Jamaican-born Fagon came to England at the age of 18, working first on the railways, and then enlisting in the army, where he became a boxing champion. He soon became a leading figure in black theatre. His characters, with explosive consequences, struggle to live in a hostile British culture as exiles from their spiritual home.

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below is a list of Alfred Fagon's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         11 Josephine House         Death Of A Black Man         Dorcas Faku         Four Hundred Pounds         Lonely Cowboy
11 Josephine House

11 Josephine House
Black Family trying to adjust to the temptations of english Life, white woman causes black preacher's fall from grace.

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-     1972

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1st Published:
Oberon, London, 2000   

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Death Of A Black Man

Death Of A Black Man
Shakie is 19 and runs a dubious enterprise selling bottled water to tourists.

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Organisations:
Foco Novo Theatre Company

1st Published:
in alfred Fagon Plays, Oberon, London, 2001   

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Dorcas Faku

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written by Diane Taylor And Alfred Fagon

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Four Hundred Pounds

Synopsis:
Refusal to pot the black in a snooker game on ideological grounds loses hero and his more pragmatic gambling partner similar sum of money.

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Foco Novo Theatre Company

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Lonely Cowboy

Lonely Cowboy
a couple's attempt to start a cafe leads to comedy and then tragedy as they try to ban other values than their own from the cafe.

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1st Published:
in Black Plays 1 ed. Yvonne Brewster, Methuen, London, 1989   

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