Jamaican Plays

In today’s Sunday Gleaner, Sadeke Brooks does a feature on Andrea ‘Delcita’ Wright, star of numerous hilarious Jamaican plays over the years, with her most recent appearance being in The Plumber.

“Wright said she grew up in North Western Clarendon and attended Edwin Allen High School. She said she has been living with her grandmother since she was just a baby … After high school, she attended Shortwood Teachers’ College where she studied primary education. That was followed by a marketing course at the University of the West Indies’ School of Continuing Studies. She also received a certificate in small business administration. It was while there in 1989 that she met theatre writer Paul O. Beale, who was putting on a play and seeking actors. She auditioned and was cast as an old woman in the play Mus Mus Tail, which was her first commercial production,” … more here