Days Like Dese, a GEMS Theatre Production is slated to return to television next Friday with a COVID-themed creation. The once popular sitcom is set to bring to its audience a new episode every week.
The sitcom was aired for two seasons in 2017 and 2018. Its 15-minute show will highlight the pandemic and its effects and coping with same. Despite its informative nature, the show still seeks to entertain its viewers.
Producer GEMS, Gem Madhoo-Nascimento will be teaming up with Sean Thompson in the writing of the episodes while Thompson will also film and edit the series.
Owing to the COVID distancing guideline, it was said that each episode will feature two or three actors ensuring that they maintain the necessary social distance. In light of the pandemic also, most of the filming will be carried out at open venues.
Two talented and popular actresses, Sonia Yarde and Simone Persaud will be featured in Friday’s episode.
“The original Days Like Dese was set in the living room of a mixed Guyanese middle-income family of good standing and moral ethics. There were children, friends, grandparents, uncles, neighbours and cousins of various income levels and living standards. Social cohesion was reflected deeply in the
component of the extended family. Issues affecting our everyday life, for example, domestic abuse, climate change, recycling, trafficking in persons, conservation of basic every day utilities all played a major role in the series,” a release from the production team said.
According to the release education through comedy was the play’s main focus. Actors were Mark Kazim, Nathaya Whaul, Simone Dowding, Ron Robinson, Lavonne George, Mark Luke-Edwards, Rajan Tiwari, Simone Persaud, Kirk Jardine, Michael Ignatius, Joel Gansham, Makayah Smith, Safira Abrahim-Williams and Kaylee Liverpool.
“We will continue to tell the story of this family. Most of these actors would be retained”, the release said.
