Jamaican Plays

In today’s Gleaner newspaper, Keiran King gives a stinging review of the latest roots play to hit the local entertainment scene, The Plumber.

“The Plumber is, ostensibly, about a policeman suspecting and then uncovering his wife in an affair. Never mind that. It’s really about bringing some familiar characters onto the stage, characters from prior Stages shows, presented so as to blur the line between person and persona – Garfield ‘Bad Boy Trevor’ Reid, Michael ‘Stringbeans’ Nicholson, Everaldo ‘Stamma’ Creary and Andrea ‘Delcita’ Wright. These performers are not in the show, they are the show. The play is best understood as a pretext for Stamma and Delcita to run through comedy routines,” … more