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In Couva, restaurant owner Otto Hogan's refusal to serve highway construction crews or accept a bribe delays a new road through town. He and his neighbors create a folk legend about a mysterious stranger, while a series of schemes and mistaken identities complicates the fight over the highway.
Charcoal burner Makak, imprisoned after destroying goods in a market, recounts a vision of a white woman who urges him to return to Africa. His dream unfolds through a jail, market, forest, and imagined African court, as he becomes a healer and then a conquering king before rejecting the apparition and returning to his home on Monkey Mountain with a reconciled sense of identity.
An epic drama commissioned for the opening session of the West Indies Federation’s Federal Parliament, mounted outdoors in Port of Spain with actors and personnel from across the Caribbean as part of a regional arts festival celebrating the new federation.
The last man on earth considers whether to prolong his life or end it, in a metaphysical play described as vernacular yet literary in style.
A seven-scene chronicle of Henri Christophe, a former enslaved man who became a general under Toussaint Louverture and later ruled northern Haiti, first as president and then as king, in conflict with the southern government of Alexandre Pétion.
The Capeman is a musical play with music by Paul Simon and book and lyrics by Simon and Derek Walcott based on the life of convicted murderer Salvador Agrón. The play opened at the Marquis Theatre in 1998 to poor reviews and ran for 68 performances.
In Couva, restaurant owner Otto Hogan's refusal to serve highway construction crews or accept a bribe delays a new road through town. He and his neighbors create a folk legend about a mysterious stranger, while a series of schemes and mistaken identities complicates the fight over the highway.
Charcoal burner Makak, imprisoned after destroying goods in a market, recounts a vision of a white woman who urges him to return to Africa. His dream unfolds through a jail, market, forest, and imagined African court, as he becomes a healer and then a conquering king before rejecting the apparition and returning to his home on Monkey Mountain with a reconciled sense of identity.
An epic drama commissioned for the opening session of the West Indies Federation’s Federal Parliament, mounted outdoors in Port of Spain with actors and personnel from across the Caribbean as part of a regional arts festival celebrating the new federation.
The last man on earth considers whether to prolong his life or end it, in a metaphysical play described as vernacular yet literary in style.
A seven-scene chronicle of Henri Christophe, a former enslaved man who became a general under Toussaint Louverture and later ruled northern Haiti, first as president and then as king, in conflict with the southern government of Alexandre Pétion.
The Capeman is a musical play with music by Paul Simon and book and lyrics by Simon and Derek Walcott based on the life of convicted murderer Salvador Agrón. The play opened at the Marquis Theatre in 1998 to poor reviews and ran for 68 performances.