After its opening night, Midnight At Puss Creek will play Tuesdays to Saturdays at 8 p.m., and on Sundays at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. For more information or to make reservations, please call (876) 968-7529 or (876) 473-4485.

In Easy Street, writer Patrick Brown takes us on a journey to the city dump, and forces us to come face to face with some very compelling realities. He exposes the underbelly of a society beset with many social ills, but skillfully shows that the inhabitants of the dump who literally survive off the refuse of the wider society, are real people, with real hopes and aspirations, real failures and disappointments, real dreams and nightmares.

The story is carried on a ‘comedic vehicle’ like only Patrick Brown can, milking laughter from each and every scenario, but respecting delicate sensitivities.

The Easy Street cast is led by Glen ‘Titus’ Campbell, who is widely regarded as one of Jamaica’s most talented actors. Campbell gets yet another chance to milk another of Brown’s multi-dimensional characters, and the opportunity to wring every comic moment from the situations encountered.

The cast also includes the increasingly popular Camille Davis, who has now established herself as one of Jamaica’s leading young thespians. Theatre fans will still remember her and speak glowingly of her outstanding performance in last year’s “Sheep In Wolf Clothing”, as well as DIANA – which had its final performance in December 2009.

Courtney Wilson is also part of the energetic cast, alongside the hilarious Christopher Hutchinson, and songbird Sharee McDonald-Russell, who again appears courtesy of the Ashe Caribbean Performing Arts Ensemble.

Easy Street’s story revolves around Queenie (Camille Davis), the socialite who fell from grace and landed on ‘Easy Street’. After an uncertain start, she finds herself living among a truly diverse set of friends. There’s Fungus (Glen Campbell), who claims to have lost his wife, house, farm and ambition in “Jamaica’s 9/11″ – Hurricane Ivan. He claims to have an educated son in foreign, and clings to the hope that his “landed papers” will come through one day.

Living next to Fungus is the jilted artiste, Scab (Courtney Wilson), who sacrificed education and inheritance to pursue his art, and who still awaits his big break as a poet/artist/singer/dub-poet/sing-jay, and whatever else comes to mind … artistic that is.

Not too far away is the house inhabited by Princess (Sharee McDonald-Russell) and Bully (Christopher Hutchinson), the delusional ex-cop, who is always wearing his decade-old “uniform”, always armed to the teeth and is never off duty … although he hasn’t really been a cop for some nine years. Princess is Bully’s long-suffering wife of 15 years, who has a perennial black-eye and claims that “is cold she catch up in it”. She has the voice of an angel, but the unmistakable appetite of a horse.

Easy Street plays Tuesdays to Fridays at 8 p.m., and on Saturdays and Sundays at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. For more information, please call 473-4485 or 968-7529.

Directed by award winning director Trevor Naire, and described as a “romantic comedy”, the story revolves around Diana, an attractive go-go dancer who seemed to have been born to dance. But her insanely jealous boyfriend Doggie hates to see any other man come anywhere near Diana, which is impossible for her to avoid given her job, and especially given how attractive she looks and how she is at her craft.

Popular dancehall star Candyman develops a particular liking for Diana … well Diana’s body really. As luck would have it for the Candyman, Doggie finds himself on the wrong side of the law, and Candyman has evidence which could put him away in jail for a long time. But Candyman is a reasonable man … he offers Doggie a choice – spend jail time, or agree to Candyman spending one night in bed with Diana. Before Doggie could even digest that, the Candyman ups the ante … Doggie has to watch the “act”!

Diana stars Camille Davis (as Diana), Glen ‘Titus’ Campbell, Courtney Wilson, Christopher Hutchinson and Sakina Deer.

Yet with all those achievements, Brown still thrives to refresh his efforts with each work. When DIANA opens at Centrestage on Saturday, August 1, 2009 at 5pm & 8pm, Brown explores the often misunderstood and maligned life of artistes known as go-go or exotic dancers. In the process, he created one of the most interesting characters ever seen on the local stage – an attractive deaf-mute dancer. One of the highlights of the production is actually how this deaf-mute individual is able to communicate with the other actors on stage and the audience, and the number of hilarious moments he is able to milk from those interactions. The talented young thespian Camille Davis has been cast in the title role.

Davis has built up an impressive dossier of achievements on the local stage over the last few years, with leading roles in such blockbuster hits as the recently completed SHEEP IN WOLF’S CLOTHING and several other Jambiz Productions.

DIANA actually had a short run back in 2001 – then called Dirty Diana. The situations explored in the work are as relevant today as they were back then – enticing the producers to give it a second life on stage eight years on wards.

The 2001 staging featured radio personality Sherando Ferril in the title role, alongside Glen ‘Titus’ Campbell, Nadia Khan, the late Charles Hyatt and American hunk Dexter Hammet as Baby Face. Pop singer Farenheit replaced Hammet towards the latter part of the run in November of that year. News Talk 93′s sizzling hot host Denise Hunt alternated with both Ferril and Khan.

The production created quite a stir back then, with a lively debate regarding a decision with which the main protagonist struggled. Diana’s boyfriend of many years Doggie runs into some trouble and is given a lifeline by the main antagonist Baby Face – spend jail time or agree to his woman spending a night in bed with Baby Face. And if that weren’t bad enough Baby Face raised the temperature by demanding that Doggie watch the act unfold. Audience members got dragged into the storyline, openly offering suggestions from both sides of the spectrum … heightening the drama unfolding on stage.

The 2009 revival will see Glen Campbell as the only surviving member of the original cast. Then he played ‘Doggie’, but has now been entrusted with the more “senior” role of Pops, played then by the inimitable Charles Hyatt. The cast also includes Jambiz regulars Courtney Wilson as Doggie, and Christopher Hutchinson as Candyman (Baby Face). Another bright spark on the local theatre scene Sakina Deer (who prefers to be known simply as Sakina) makes a special appearance as Cher – an attractive deaf-mute go-go dancer. Sakina has appeared primarily in Basil Dawkins produced plays, and productions mounted by the Jamaica Musical Theatre Company.

Award winning director Trevor Nairne has again been called upon to lend his creative genius to yet another local production. Nairne’s achievement in local theatre has become legendary, gaining the ongoing respect of his peers, actors and the audience.

After its July 29th opening, DIANA will then play Wednesdays and Saturdays at 8pm and on Sundays at 5pm and 8pm. it will also have two performances on Emancipation Day (August 1) and Independence Day (August 6).