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Theatre Reviews: Pantomime

... Pantomime Oldham Granada Studio Theatre at the Coliseum has been converted into a Caribbean island for Derek Walcott's Pantomime, which certainly is not a pantomime in the accepted sense. This witty two- hander has some powerful messages about prejudice ...

Published: Thursday 04 April 1996
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 231 | Page: 14 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRE: THE TORCH

... November 22. Yedra Garsiapresented and produced a varied entertainment, entitled Some Song', and Dances of Spain and the Caribbean. The varied programme suffered a few first-night mishaps, including the partial failure of the footlights and a cast depleted ...

Published: Thursday 24 November 1949
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 216 | Page: 7 | Tags: theatre review 

Theatre Reviews Dance: Anansi Come Back

... scene mentioning them this Jamaican National Pantomime Company production makes every audience member an expert on the Caribbean edi ble starchy tuber. Around this root food fascina tion is built an enjoyable show which tries very hard to stir the ...

Published: Thursday 17 August 1995
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 239 | Page: 22 | Tags: theatre review 

PLAY REVIEWS: Good Rockin' by the Wall

... then the play deteriorates into a kind of sexual panto mime, with a splash of puerile sen timentality between Gerry and the Caribbean Shodana. Workers' State and the state of the world recede into the background. Nor is the play helped by an unconvincing ...

Published: Thursday 22 November 1984
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 267 | Page: 11 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Raising The Wreck

... glorify her name whilst she herself was trapped as a pirate queen. Other odd gems emerge within this play, somewhere in the Caribbean, where Frumin has collected these repre sentatives of female independence. Because the historical characters are based on ...

Published: Thursday 06 March 1986
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 246 | Page: 10 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: DAVIS, CROYDON

... DAVIS, CROYDON MARKOVA AND DOLIN Back from their lightning tour of the Caribbean. Alicia Markora and Anton Dolin launched, at the Davis, Croydon, on March 20. a long lour of ballet for the masses in the larger theatres of the United Kingdom. Their programme ...

Published: Thursday 23 March 1950
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 246 | Page: 10 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: NEW WATERGATE

... dis play of nimble bare feet, whirling brown bodies and West Indian rhythms is quite exhilarating. Boscoe Holder and his Caribbean Dancers are the mainstay of the evening, performing solo and ensemble num bers with easy grace and an almost devotional kind ...

Published: Thursday 18 February 1954
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 244 | Page: 9 | Tags: theatre review 

THEATRE REVIEW: Girlie Talk

... sures of home and traditional family expectations in a Western culture. We follow Rhani (Virk) of Indian ancestry, and Afro- Caribbean Selina (Doreene Backstock) as bouncing babies, boisterous toddlers, noisy, mis chievous school kids, eager but anxious a ...

Published: Thursday 22 June 1995
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 217 | Page: 15 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Moon Dance Night

... Moon Dance Night ARTS EDGAR WHITE's play, set in the Caribbean, bubbles, amuses and seduces with its warmth and humour and is given smart direction by Yvonne Brewster--a direction, however, which allows the play to breathe. Main characters are the formidable ...

Published: Thursday 15 October 1987
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 250 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: A Jamaican Airman Foresees His Death

... follow four Jamaican boys as they go to fight for king and country in 1942. From the hot and happy-go-lucky existence of the Caribbean they are lured to the cold, unwelcoming shores of their so called mother country by the booming tones of Churchill, a beautiful ...

Published: Thursday 16 May 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 263 | Page: 11 | Tags: theatre review 

PLAY REVIEWS: Polly

... striven, with scant success, to present Polly Peachum's post Beggar's Opera adventures in the West Indies as a modern Caribbean musical relevant for our times. How could it be when we have such patent nonsense as Polly's first appearance. She teeters ...

Published: Thursday 28 July 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 230 | Page: 9 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: CARDIFF PREMIERE

... factors in human nature. Eight completely different characters are gathered together on a treasure- ridden island in the Caribbean Sea It is their varying reactions to this unlikely situation around which the whole play revolves. Incidentally there is ...

Published: Thursday 07 February 1952
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 227 | Page: 10 | Tags: theatre review