Arts on Sunday

It might surprise many to hear it said that after 41 years Guyana’s premier national festival is still a developing tradition. 

The theatre of satire in the Caribbean has a very strong history and tradition dating back to the period of slavery. 

The recent staging of the Harold Bascom drama Makantali by The Theatre Guild was an extremely important production.

The annual satirical revue Link Show 27 directed by Ron Robinson and produced by The Theatre Company and GEMS Theatre Productions provoked a number of letters and comments in the press in February 2011. 

By James G Rose (Trevor Burnard, Hearing Slaves Speak, UK : The Caribbean Press, 2010.

His victory over a first class field in the 2010 TS Eliot Poetry Prize last month elevated Derek Walcott yet higher in world literature and placed him yet again under the international spotlight. 

(Poui, Cave Hill Journal of Creative Writing, No: XI, December 2010; eds Mark McWatt, Jane Bryce, Hazel Simmons-McDonald, Mark Jason Welch, Dept.

(Poui, Cave Hill Journal of Creative Writing, No: XI, December 2010; eds Mark McWatt, Jane Bryce, Hazel Simmons-McDonald, Mark Jason Welch, Dept.

It was announced on January 24 in London that Caribbean poet Derek Walcott had won the TS Eliot Poetry Prize 2010 for his latest collection White Egrets. 

Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. 

A recent debate over a political issue took place in the Trinidad and Tobago Parliament on January 12 that happens to raise some serious questions about our attitudes to our indigenous culture and culture in the Caribbean generally. 

The popular play Watch De Ride by Guyanese playwright Ronald Hollingsworth is a drama arising out of an act of carpe diem. 

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and auld lang syne?

Bethlehem, the birthplace of Christ, Jerusalem and that area in the Middle East known as the Holy Land, is now one of the most intense trouble-spots of tension, war and conflict in the world. 

Valuable or important books going out of print is a recurring issue everywhere.

(Continued from last week) Tiwari and Yarde were strong leads in Neaz Subhan’s production of Sheik Sadeek’s Black Bush, with the ability to capture both situation and characters convincingly. 

It is very significant to note that in his continuing programme of theatrical productions to highlight Indian culture in Guyana, director Neaz Subhan, on behalf of the Indian Arrival Committee, produced three plays by Sheik Sadeek. 

The popular appeal of dance in Guyana has escalated quite as much as the rising numbers of new dance groups and companies.

Trevor Rhone’s plays are popular in Guyana, as one would expect them to be given their dramatic power and the fact that they are the work of a major dramatist who has produced some

The revival of Trevor Rhone’s powerful drama Old Story Time by the Theatre Guild allows a timely new focus on this important Caribbean classic.