It is generally not easy to get reliable information about cultural performances early in the previous century in order to reconstruct historical records. We are therefore very pleased to be able to reprint reviews and first-hand accounts of dramatic performances and cultural events during the period 1946 – 1947 in Georgetown, British Guiana. These are precious documents with priceless information about the theatre, especially, and about the several cultural clubs that mushroomed in the colony between the 1920s and 1940s. Among them is the British Guiana Dramatic Society (BGDS), led by Alice Bhagwandai Singh.
The accounts are taken from Kyk-Over-Al Vol 1 Issues 4 – 5, June to December, 1947, edited by A J Seymour. We are indebted to the Guyana Classics Library Series edited by David Dabydeen and Lynne Macedo and published by the Caribbean Press in 2013 for their reprint of the early volumes of Kyk-Over-Al. These were among several Guyana Classics, important publications most of which had gone out of print.
