The recent staging of the Harold Bascom drama Makantali by The Theatre Guild was an extremely important production. It was the presentation to the public of a major play by a notable contemporary Guyanese writer in a series of efforts by the resuscitated Theatre Guild to resume the staging of prominent plays of merit at the Playhouse.  In what has been a fairly successful series of occasional productions, this most recent effort reached historic heights, since it was the première of Makantali, a very significant Guyanese play.

What increases the importance is that it was also the first time that any play that has won the Guyana Prize for Literature has ever been staged.  For…..