Arts on Sunday

The Theatre Guild of Guyana recently returned to the stage with a production that was very special to the institution.

The most recent revision of the annual comedy series “Nothing to Laugh About” by Signature Productions provided another very good opportunity to do a further study of comedy theatre in Guyana.

O Beautiful Guyana                                      O beautiful Guyana O my lovely native land More dear to me than all the world Thy sea-washed, sun-kissed strand Or down upon the borders Looking down upon the deep The great Atlantic Blown into a fury or asleep At morn, at noon or better In the crimson sunset’s glow I love thee, Oh I love thee.

By Philbert Gajadhar “From Ashes We Rise” is the latest in the series of exhibitions from the University of Guyana’s Creative Arts Division located in the Department of Language and Cultural Studies.

By Alim Hosein Guyana’s National Gallery of Art, Castellani House, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, having opened to the public on May 24, 1993.

The Guyana Carnival is here. Guyana has now joined other countries in the celebration of carnival, which is both, variously, a long-standing tradition and a new imitative contrivance.

Bans A KillinSo yuh a de man me hear bout!

Around this time in Guyana and the Caribbean, the arrival of peoples of different ethnic and cultural origins is commemorated.

British High Commissioner Greg Quinn honoured the legacy of William Shakespeare, the greatest playwright of all time, with his third Annual Shakespeare Film Night on April 25.

On Friday last, April 20, Chinese Language Day was observed by the United Nations, one of seven such annual observances.

Darren McAlmont’s Woman In Law 2 played at the National Cultural Centre recently.

Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And like the baseless fabric of this vision The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And like this insubstantial pageant faded Leave not a rack behind.

Last Wednesday afternoon, a large procession of Christian worshipers made its way down the main street of New Amsterdam, Berbice.

Shrek – The Musical Jr was on stage last week, being the 2018 annual dramatic production of the Georgetown International Academy.

Ode to Aphrodite Deathless Aphrodite, throned in flowers, Daughter of Zeus, O terrible enchantress, With this sorrow, with this anguish, break my spirit Lady, not longer!

There are some forms of comedy that are currently popular in the Caribbean, including the large theatre communities in Jamaica and Trinidad.

The opportunity arises after the events of Mashramani have concluded to assess their success and impact.

Popular theatre to mark special occasions continued at the National Cultural Centre on February 14, last with a dramatic production for Valentine’s Day.

Theatre as investigative therapy, or as healing ritual, was demonstrated last week when the production Omega – the Beginning, directed by Nicose Layne and Rae Wiltshire was staged at the Theatre Guild Playhouse, Kingston.

Studies in Realism                 (ii) The Tragic Muse O God This is my meditation now, before I pray.