The series of literary, artistic and cultural performances in the Guyana Prize for Literature Literary Festival ends tonight with the staging of Sauda by Guyanese playwright Mosa Telford, performed by the National Drama Company (NDC) and directed by Ayanna Waddell. Curtains open at 8.00 pm at the National Cultural Centre.
This is the final act on a day that also features the Guyana Prize Literary Exhibition mounted by the University of Guyana Library. The display of books has been on show throughout the three days of the festival which started on Friday. Other major features on this afternoon include the Edgar Mittelholzer Memorial Distinguished Lecture, by Prof Evelyn O’Callaghan, and a public reading by four renowned writers in the Caribbean, the Commonwealth and the UK. Such presentations have characterised the festival which, among other things, celebrates Guyanese literature.