... more Afro- Caribbean and Asian women, who it claims are the hardest hit by descrimination, will join writes asmine Kartal. The CWTDA claims that although opportunities for women to enter theatre administration have improved, Afro-Caribbean and Asian ...

... No half pint measures here Roy Robert Smith on the hot reggae rhythms of a Caribbean pantomime HALF MOON Flash Trash WHAT A WELCOME change this Caribbean pantomime offers us on a wet wintry night. The rhythm of reggae, the glow of the Jamaican night ...

... religion's coalescence, or syncretism, has applied since Christianity absorbed pans of the Old Religion of the earth mother, and Caribbean Catholicism amalgamated with African religion, as Manicheism had lasted until Thomas a Becket. The plot is parallelled by ...

... of the other's wealth, leading to menacing complications. However, considering they have just returned from a three-month Caribbean cruise, they look awfully pale. Maybe they spent too much time in their honey moon cabin, or judging by the amount of alcohol ...

... elsewhere, Belfast has been given the opportunity to see itself, its feuds, absurdities, violence and distress in the lively Caribbean fantasy of Kingdom Come by local playwright Stewart Parker. The Lyric Players Theatre havt given it a colourful, zestful ...

... RIVERSIDE THE BLACK Theatre Co-operative production of Edgar White's Redemp tion Song at the Riverside Studios is set in the Caribbean during a Mummers Festival, or Jankanoo, and gives a carefully drawn picture of local life and personalities. Though passions ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... uniformly excellent cast to recre ate a rich assembly of characters in an action which takes place over three days in the Caribbean. There is a slighly Chekhovian feel to the play, which teems with life and examines the varieties of love from the familial ...

... Take Back What's Yours WAREHOUSE CROYDON SET in the Caribbean, Jacqueline Rudet's play is a version--or rather a transportation--of Wesker's Roots to another clime. The focus is on the two sisters, Jenny and the younger sibling Beatie (Irma Inniss and ...