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Alfred Fagon: a brilliant playwright whose work must not be forgotten by Arifa Akbar

As The Death of a Black Man returns to Hampstead theatre, it's time to remember and revive Fagon's other confounding and ambitious dramas Alfred Fagon was many things before becoming a playwright at the vanguard of the black British theatre movement of the 1970s and 80s: welder, champion boxer, railway worker, army man, poet and actor, with a colourful circle of friends including the model Christine Keeler. "He put n…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PM on May 4, 2021

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