Ingrid Griffith’s gripping one-woman drama Demerara Gold finds its way home this month with shows at the National Cultural Centre, Theatre Guild, New Amsterdam Multilateral School and Lichas Hall in Linden.
According to a press release, Ingrid’s play, based on her true life story, has 18 characters and she plays them all. It is about the life of a seven-year-old girl, Ingrid, who, along with her sister, is left in Guyana in the care of her two grandmothers while her parents travel to America. One of the grandmothers is a rigid recluse and the other a religious fanatic. When Ingrid finally arrives in America to reunite with her parents, she finds an embittered immigrant father who rails at “this blasted life,”