... CARIBBEAN By DENIS DUPERLY The Caribbean Thespians are a group of young Jamaicans deeply interested in the theatre. They in-dulge in acting not for financial gain, but principally to maintain the development of dramatic arts in Jamaica and the other Caribbean ...

... Commonwealth Institute 'Caribbean Way' THE WEST INDIAN Students' Centre in London has a well-established reputation for skill in dance and music performance, amply demonstrated by their Caribbean Way showcase production at the Commonwealth Institute ...

... the powerful spirit of the Caribbean carnival, and its effect on those it touches, is the narrative thread on which writer Jean Binta Breeze underpins the production, allowing the dancers to portray both human cameos of Caribbean life and to wind up the ...

... and Afrr>Caribbean communities as well as more droll Jewish anecdotes. The cross-fertilisation is rewarding. Saul Jaffe's Jewish bounty hunter gets rabbinical advice from the Ulster-accented Brendan Fleming. Carol Russell's sinuous Caribbean spider Anansi ...

... ly as it marks the reopening of one of London's most neglected theatres, the Royalty. The theatre is transformed into a Caribbean environment of palm trees, steel bands, rickety thatched roofs and rum punches. Imagination, the conceptual design compa ...

... THE IRVING CABARET CARIBBEAN On November 3 there was presented here a West Indian Party arranged by Edric Connor and entitled Cabaret Caribbean. This brief entertainment is an ex perience that should not be missed. Not everyone, it is true, will fall ...

... 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 ...

... THE WATERGATE DANCES OF THE TROPICS On July 24 Boscoe Holder and his Caribbean dancers opened a short late-night season of a miniature song and dance revue entitled Dances of the Tropics. The subterranean depths of the Watergate, now adorned wilh ...

... resilience in many transpositions. The latest, by Chris Monks and Kwame Kwei-Armah for the Belgrade Theatre, takes it to the Caribbean in the late fifties, as the islands struggle to suppress their differ ences in the West Indian Federation. The creators find ...

... Aduwali becomes a sequence of migrants old and young, female and male, from the fifties. They shared a passage from the Caribbean to Birmingham and now share racism, bad chicken and the cold. Set against a hi-tech back drop, the performance conveys the ...

... Abbensetts' somewhat perfunctory revenge drama for Talawa Theatre Company. Ramsay James is the former Prime Minister of a Caribbean island, expelled from his fiefdom and exiled to Britain where his arrogant attitude hardly endears him to his ex- wife ...

... 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 ...