Michael Abbensetts
(1938-2016)
British playwright and screenwriter
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Michael John Abbensetts (8 June 1938 – 24 November 2016) was a Guyana-born British writer who settled in England in the 1960s. He had been described as "the best Black playwright to emerge from his generation, and as having given "Caribbeans a real voice in Britain". He was the first black British playwright commissioned to write a television drama series, Empire Road, which the BBC aired from 1978 to 1979.
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8 June 1938 Georgetown, British Guiana
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24 November 2016 (aged 78) London
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| Zodiac | Gemini |
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