The University of Guyana and the Theatre Guild of Guyana are currently collaborating in the production of a programme of two plays – The Tramping Man by Ian McDonald and Duenne by Paloma Mohamed, currently running at the Theatre Guild Playhouse in Kingston until April 22.
I have never learnt the names of flowers.
From beginning, my world has been a place
Of pot-holed streets where thick, sluggish gutters race
In slow time, away from garbage heaps and sewers
Past blanched old houses around which cowers
Stagnant earth.
The Mike James Drama Group of Linden returned to the stage on February 18 last with James’ latest play called For Better or Curse performed at Lichas Hall.
History
Even Sisyphus rested considering a new approach upstairs
Straight up this time this stone all the way to Elysium
But we could not, there was so much to do down here,
The cane the cane-cutting, egged on, the foreman saying, “some
Of you lazy-lazy,” if in pith helmet a high horse driver edging the field
Would remember to us another kind of history, chamars
Bent between stanzas of wavering cane under sun that keels
Their spines, dry their substance like raisins until the stars
Were switched on.
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.
China’s Four Great Folktales
1. Butterfly Lovers
During a time when women were still discouraged from taking up scholarly pursuits, Zhu Yingtai, urges her father to permit her to disguise as a man so that she can attend classes.
Journey of the Magi
A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey:
The ways deep and the weather sharp,
The very dead of winter.’
In the week before Christmas, on the occasion of its 56th Convocation Ceremony, the University of Guyana conferred upon Ameena Gafoor the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters.
There were recently two theatre productions on the Guyanese stage on the same weekend, standing in contrast to each other in many ways, and bringing to notice a number of significant features of the present time.