Jamaican Plays

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, some dressing-room undressing and segments of the inscribed show, Just Soups. But we never get a sense that the show is truly endangered … more here