Jamaican Plays

Old Tyme Country Wedding Was A Hit

According to reports out of Canada, Old Tyme Country Wedding, an original home-grown Canadian pantomime, was a big hit on its debut at the P.C. Ho Theatre for Performing Arts on Sheppard Avenue East in Toronto, last night. Jamaican musicologist, composer and choir director, Noel Dexter, was specially flown in from Jamaica to attend the [...]

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Two Can Play – A Tribute To Trevor Rhone

The University Players’ will pay tribute to the late Trevor Rhone by staging his award-winning comedy “Two Can Play” for just six performances – beginning Saturday, October 17 and continuing through to Monday, October 26. The venue will be the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts at the University of the West Indies, Mona, [...]

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Suzette Barrett In ‘Family Affair’

At age 18, Suzette Barrett made her stage debut in Michael Denton’s “Hear Say”, which signaled the start of an extremely successful career. Having worked on smash hits such as “Two Fowl A Mi Yaad”, “Granny Rule I”, “Missa Dweet Nice”, “Passa Passa”, “More Passa”, “Crazy Landlord” and “Shebada Comes To Town” to name a [...]

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Pssst! | Dark Diaspora

The Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts School of Drama presents two short plays in one night: – Pssst! (directed by Neila Ebanks) – Dark Diaspora (directed by Ahdri Zhina Mandiela) The two plays commonly explore the issue of identity, and are carried along mainly by poetry, monologue and sound. The plays [...]

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Bashment Granny Movie Trailer

Check out the trailer for the soon-to-be released Bashment Granny movie, which is based off the hilarious Jamaican play of the same name. It stars Garfield “Bad Boy Trevor” Reid, Maxwell Grant, Keith “Shebada” Ramsay, Stede Flash and Abigail Grant, and was written and directed by Paul O. Beale. This is a two-minute video clip [...]

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