Dear Editor,
O Beautiful Guyana, etc.
O wonderful Theatre Guild, your seats were filled.
For ever so long your audience was thrilled.
In fairness to those deceased, let me remind you of the actors and actresses and helpers who made their mark when I was at my best:-
The Pilgrims – Billy, Frank and Cicely Robinson; Robert Narain; Andre Subryan; Phillip McClintock, the wonderful Kathak dancer; Carlotta Thomasson; Matthew Alleyne; Ed Rodway, the photographer, along with his helper, Pat Pierre; Phyllis Shepherd; Pat Oudkerk; Lawrence Thompson; Katie Porter and last, but far from least, my beloved husband, JD Gomes, who introduced me to the Guild, who did the props and who stayed home with the children to help while I was at the Guild.
There are those too, very much alive but out of the country: Pat Cameron, Pauline Thomas – my partner in Over the Fence – Eugene Williams, and Frank Thomasson.
I must say another thanks to my daughter, Sharon, for taking me to the opening night of the Theatre Guild and to Francis Quamina for putting me on stage for the last time.
The theatre’s condition had been awful; we shed many a tear until many mourners subscribed and put funds into gear, come one, come all. You young and aspiring ones make up for the time the Guild was declining, so please Paloma, full speed with playwriting. Leave Gem and Francis for directing and organising.
Yours faithfully,
Patricia Gomes
