Jamaican Plays

Gleaner Review Of Family Remedy

Today’s Sunday Gleaner newspaper carries a review of Fabian Barrack’s FAMILY REMEDY play: There is much to be expected from a production that is described as “vivacious comedy” and presented as a “remedy for the family”. But alas, Family Remedy the production currently being staged at the Theatre Place, in New Kingston, does not live [...]

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3 Jamaican Plays Book Launched

Today’s Gleaner newspaper carries a review of the launch event for 3 Jamaican Plays: A Postcolonial Anthology (1977-1987), a Honor Ford-Smith edited book which features three remarkable and sometimes hilarious Jamaican plays that speak simultaneously about memory and the present, violence and creativity, belonging and dispossession. The occasion was marked by introductions and colourful readings [...]

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A Look At Douglas Prout’s Award-Winning White Witch Play

In today’s Sunday Gleaner, Marcia Rowe takes a look at Douglas Prout’s record-breaking award-winning musical, White Witch. For two consecutive years Douglas Prout has walked away with not only the award for Best Director but the Best Production too, at the ITI Jamaica Centre Actor Boy Awards, and in this feature, Prout tells the story [...]

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Who Are The Stars Of Jamaican Theatre?

From today’s Sunday Gleaner: Find out more about the actors and the productions which have been nominated for Actor Boy Awards tomorrow … with specific focus on the award category of Actor in a lead role, which features Alwyn Scott, Peter Haley, Christopher Macfarlane, Keiran King and André Morris …. more here

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Review Of O Babylon

Today’s Sunday Gleaner newspaper carries a Michael Reckord review of the musical, O Babylon, by West Indian Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott. Those who have attended the Drama School production directed by staff member Robert ‘Bobby’ Clarke – perhaps best known for his directing of nine Little Theatre Movement Pantomimes – have enjoyed the experience. The [...]

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