Last week’s performance of “Nothing to Laugh About 10” at the National Cultural Centre (NCC) seems to have sealed the issue about current audience choices in popular theatre in Guyana.
Trends take time to develop and to settle down, and patterns will have to be observed for a number of years before any conclusions can be drawn that anything can be called a trend. Since the development of local theatre performing for and appealing to a local popular audience in Guyana in 1981, the trends have changed almost decade by decade.
“Nothing to Laugh About,” a popular comedy show created by Maria Benschop, is now 10 years old and celebrated its significant anniversary with the 2017 edition of its series of annual productions, which was directed by theatre personality and filmmaker Kojo McPherson. It was