Michael Abbensetts

Michael Abbensetts was born on 8 June 1938 in Georgetown, the son of a doctor, and studied at Queen's College, then in Canada, at Stanstead and in Montreal, where a play by John Osborne turned him towards the theatre. Settled in London around 1963, he was for a time a warder at the Tower of London, and in 1974 became a British citizen and writer in residence at the Royal Court. He was the first Black British playwright commissioned to write a television series, broadcast by the BBC in 1978 and 1979, and died in London in 2016.

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• TheatreAlterationsMichael Abbensetts · 1978Literature