Guyanese playwright Ronald Hollingsworth has over the years earned a place for himself on the contemporary Guyanese stage. He started his career as a teacher by profession, began to learn his craft as an amateur at the Theatre Guild and later at the University of Guyana where he studied. Hollingsworth, who now lives in Texas, developed into one of the leading dramatists in Guyanese popular theatre, and has produced a corpus of popular plays, some of which are all-time favourites in great demand and often brought back to full houses.
However, Hollingsworth’s fledgling interests were not in the popular stage, and after his series of box office successes