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Arts On Sunday
By Al Creighton | Sunday, November 16, 2008 | 0 Comments

A more expository than experimental production
One of the important developments in Caribbean drama in the middle of the twentieth century was a phenomenon called the ‘theatre of the backyard’ and sometimes ‘yard theatre.’ Another ‘yard theatre’ emerged in Jamaica between 1968 and 1970, but that …

Arts on Sunday
By Al Creighton | Sunday, November 9, 2008 | 0 Comments

David de Caires: a true connoisseur of the arts
So jail me quickly, clang the illiterate door
If freedom writes no happier alphabet.
(Martin Carter)
Anna Benjamin quotes David de Caires as expressing great concern for the quality and integrity of his newspaper editorials because “these are …

Arts On Sunday
By Al Creighton | Sunday, November 2, 2008 | 1 Comment
Personal odyssey
Among the most recent new books of poetry is In a Boston Night poems by Guyanese poet and fiction writer Sasenarine Persaud, published by TSAR in Canada in 2008. It was one of the many launched in Georgetown in August during Carifesta’s book fair. …

Arts On Sunday
By Al Creighton | Sunday, October 26, 2008 | 0 Comments

Reconnection of a theatre and a play
When Moon on A Rain-bow Shawl returns to the Theatre Guild of Guyana’s Play-house in Kingston on November 7, it will be a rewarding reconnection between the oldest and most established theatre in Guyana and one of the most …

Arts On Sunday
By Al Creighton | Sunday, October 19, 2008 | 0 Comments

Poui accepts Simmons-McDonald’s burnt offerings
The editors of Poui, the Cave Hill Literary Annual, “are happy to see that so many of our regular contributors continue to send us work” while at the same time they feel “it is good to find a number of new …

Arts On Sunday
By Al Creighton | Sunday, October 12, 2008 | 0 Comments
Poui introduces poet Richard Allsopp
One of the many significant features of Poui, the Cave Hill Literary Annual, is that one can always look forward to its introduction of noteworthy new writers. But this journal, published by the Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature at UWI …

Arts On Sunday
By Al Creighton | Sunday, September 28, 2008 | 0 Comments
‘My life, my country’
There exists a slim, neat volume of some fifty pages, unobtrusive and unheralded, whose worth is several times more than its unassuming appearance and deserving of much more attention than it has ever been given. My Life, My Country by Helen Taitt, …

Arts On Sunday
By Al Creighton | Sunday, September 21, 2008 | 0 Comments

So was Carifesta X worth the effort?
Carifesta X is already fading from the headlines but it will take a much longer time before it begins to show any signs of fading from memory. At this time, however, it is not surprising that it is being …

Arts On Sunday
By Al Creighton | Sunday, September 7, 2008 | 0 Comments

Was Carifesta worth the effort and expense?
Among the most memorable features of Carifesta X in Guyana were the interventions of the major writers, and, generally, that is how it should be. These were critical contributions that allow an assessment of the failings and achievements of …

Arts On Sunday
By Al Creighton | Sunday, August 24, 2008 | 0 Comments

The Pre-Carifesta programme has paid off
As the Tenth Caribbean Festival of the Arts gets into full stride, the public awareness campaign in Guyana seems to have already begun to show some positive returns. Such a campaign is closely tied to a larger purpose of public …

Arts On Sunday
By Al Creighton | Sunday, August 10, 2008 | 0 Comments

‘One people’
Wan
one tree
so many leaves
one tree
one river
so many creeks
all are going to one sea
one head
so many thoughts
thoughts among which one good one
must be
one God
so many ways of worshipping
but one Father
one Suriname
so many hair types
so many skin colours
so many tongues
one people
Robin Dobru

To be described as Janus-faced …

Arts On Sunday
By Al Creighton | Sunday, August 3, 2008 | 0 Comments

UG has a close partnership with Carifesta management
We would like Carifesta X to showcase not only the great cultural talent that this region has spawned over the short period of Caribbean history, but the great philosophical legacy and diverse economic, productive and natural resource capacities …