Jamaican Plays

FEMININE JUSTICE Plays In Toronto – Father’s Day Weekend

Multi-award winning playwright Basil Dawkins’ moving and hilarious stage play FEMININE JUSTICE, directed by Canute Lawrence, is returning to the Toronto stage for two performances this Father’s Day Weekend – June 19 & 20. Produced by Marcia Brown Productions, FEMININE JUSTICE is touted as one of the best Jamaican plays to hit the Canadian stage. [...]

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Easy Street Play Heads To New York

Caribbean nationals in New York, USA, will get a chance to see Patrick Brown’s long-running musical comedy, Easy Street, when the production hits the stage at venues in different boroughs this coming weekend. Confirmed New York dates and venues Friday, May 28 – York College, Queens Saturday, May 29 – Brooklyn College, Brooklyn Sunday, May [...]

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Serious Business Heads To North America

Serious Business, the hilarious Jamaican comedy that was written by Paul Obeale and starring Volier Johnson, Keith ‘Shebada’ Ramsey and Deon Silvera, heads north to North America soon, where it will have stops in New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, Baltimore, Toronto and other cities in North America. In New York, popular dancehall/reggae promoters Irish & [...]

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Coming Soon – Short Film Called The Final Game Based On Love Games Play

After a successful staging more than two years ago, Patrick Brown will be turning part of his Love Games play into a short film called The Final Game. Love Games has six skits, and the last one, called Final Game, will be turned into a short film. In the last section of the play, John [...]

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Review – Backstage Play

In today’s Gleaner newspaper, Keiran King delivers an extremely critical review of Karl Hart’s Backstage play. The downfall of Karl Hart’s fourth play is that the odds aren’t long enough. In Backstage, a fictional cast and crew take a show from script to stage. We see a reading of the script, a number of rehearsals, [...]

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