Don Warrington on Mustapha Matura: he brought the West Indies to British theatre
The actor and director pays tribute to the Trinidadian playwright who has died aged 79 The first of Mustapha Matura's plays I saw was As Time Goes By at the Royal Court in London. It was 1971 and I was at drama school. Until then I hadn't seen a play dealing with immigrants in such an irreverent and funny way. It depicts the tenacity and imagination that this bunch of people found in themselves to cope with the situa…