Jamaican Plays

Review of Ras Genie comedy play in today’s Gleaner newspaper – The new comedy from playwright Andrew Roach bills itself as ‘mystical’, ‘hilarious’ and ‘funny’ (doesn’t the second imply the third?), but perhaps all three could be replaced by another adjective – earnest. Ras Genie, which opened June 12, at the Pantry Playhouse, is an earnest comedy – built from drywall and dedication, the actors, sweating under hot floodlights, do their best to make the show work. The tragedy is that it doesn’t … more