The practice of producing plays on the public stage for the benefit of CXC study is back. Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel has just been performed at the Theatre Guild and preparations have begun for Julius Caesar to be staged in April.
Dramatist Godfrey Naughton, who has been foremost in producing the CXC plays and has directed such dramas as August Wilson’s Fences and Trevor Rhone’s Old Story Time, was responsible for The Lion and The Jewel at the Guild. He worked with Kefa Smith as Lakunle and Mosa Telford as Sidi very enthusiastically supported by Candacy Baveghems as Sadiku, Clinton Duncan and Godfrey Naughton as Baruka and Kim Fernandes as Ailatu. There was further energetic support from the Bishops’ High School performing arts class