Curtains raise on Jubilee Theatre Festival next Thursday

The Jubilee Theatre Festival, which will showcase and celebrate 50 years of theatre in Guyana, will debut next Thursday at the Theatre Guild, quite fittingly, with two plays at extreme ends of the 50-year timeline.

The festival is set to open with Playing Chess with a Blind Man, written and directed by Rae Wiltshire and Come Back to Melda, written by John Campbell and directed by Nickose Layne.

Come Back to Melda, one of the oldest plays in the lineup, is set in colonial times, and