"I am Brother Michael Abdul Malik, formally Michael de Freitas. Thanks to some overzealous journalists. many of you now know me as Michael X. What's the difference? I'll tell you in due course..." A Trini 'bwoy' rolls off a boat into 1950's London. Ten years later he's the most famous black man in Britain, but who was Michael X? The 'authentic' voice of black bitterness' (Observer 1965) or the ex-Rachman henchman for whom politics was just another hustle?
This play is moving, touching and poignant in this new dawn : One Fist Slaute
This play is moving, touching and poignant in this new dawn : One Fist Slaute
