The theatre community and theatre audience have been peering out from behind their curtains throughout 2022, looking closely and cautiously at the post-COVID recovery of theatre on the Guyanese stage. This long-awaited return seems to have taken shape slowly and the situation may now be rated as fairly normal.
But the judgement was quite decisively made from the point of view of the popular audience with the recent performance of the stage play Those People, a presentation of Signature Productions. Very high credits will go to Maria Benschop, who was responsible for this, working as usual in partnership with Lyndon Jones and the team that has produced the stand-up comedy show Uncensored and the stage farce series Nothing to Laugh About. Those productions cornered the market and assumed command of the popular theatre before the intervention of the pandemic shut down.