Fagon: Plays

The late Alfred Fagon was an influential exponent of black writing in this country.

"11 Josephine House" is set in Bristol in the 1970s, and pushed froward by religion, drink, love and hate. "Death of a Blackman" unfolds like a dream, created a reality in which the only thing to be sure of is the need to make it in a white man's world. "Lonely Cowboy" is play about searching for identity in Brixton in the eighties.Includes the plays 11 Josephine House, The Death of a Black Man and Lonely Cowboy 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. This collection spans the whole of Fagon's remarkable writing career. He died in 1986 at the tragically early age of 49.