Jamaican Plays

Jamaican theatre/comedy legend, Oliver Samuels, stars alongside Kadeem Wilson, Ruth Ho Singh, Audrey Reid and Brian Johnson in ‘Who A Di Don’, playing now at Stages Theatre [15 Knutsford Boulevard, New Kingston]. The play, which is directed by Peter Abrikian and produced by Keecha Gooch, takes a look at some of the serious problems facing [...]

The 71st annual national pantomime “Anansi & Goat Head Soup”, opens at the Little Theatre, 6 p.m. on  Boxing Day, Monday, December 26, 2011 and Tuesday, December 27, 2011. This year’s pantomime sees the return of Anansi, after a period of 13 years. It is fitting, as October 26, 2012 will mark the 100th birthday [...]

Patrick Brown’s Breadfruit Kingdom, ‘a satirical Jamaican fairy tale’, opens on December 26 (Boxing Day) at the Centerstage Theatre in New Kingston. Directed by Brown himself, along with Trevor Nairne, Breadfruit Kingdom features Glen ‘Titus’ Campbell, Volier ‘Maffie’ Johnson, Camille Davis, Courtney Wilson and Teisha Duncan. For more information, please call (876) 968-7529 or check [...]

DMH Productions has assembled an all star team for its annual Christmas production Back-A-Yaad. Scheduled to open on December 27 at the Pantry Playhouse on Dumfries Road, the show revives the delightful chemistry between Deon Silvera and Dahlia Harris while Ghett’a Life stars Chris McFarlane and Kevoy Burton, who alternates with Akeem Mignott, collaborate for [...]

Jamaican playwright Barry Reckord is dead. According to reports, Reckord died in Boscobel, St. Mary earlier today. Reckord was a Jamaican theatre-scene pioneer. His first play, ‘Della’, was produced at the Ward Theatre in 1953, and was again produced in England in 1958 under the title ‘Flesh to a Tiger’. Reckord was quite popular in [...]