Mustapha Matura and his Playboy of the Western World

29th November 2004

 

INTERVIEW: MUSTAPHA MATURA

At the 20th anniversary revival of his Trinidadian rewrite of The Playboy of the Western World, the playwright reminisces with Nicolas Kent, artistic director of the Tricycle Theatre. Dominic Cavendish quizzes.

I think a lot of attitudes to black theatre have changed – it’s not black theatre anymore, it’s theatre.