Arts On Sunday
It’s carnival season T he year 2009 is one of those when the calendar conspires to have a clash of dates in three countries very close to each other in the Caribbean-South America carnival belt, so that tomorrow the festival will be at its peak in all three of them. But the several events which [...]
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The spirit of the age I’ve studied, alas, philosophy, Law and medicine, recto and verso, And how I regret it, theology also, Oh God, how hard I’ve slaved away, With what result? Poor fool that I am, I’m no whit wiser than when I began! I’ve got a Master of Arts of Arts degree, On [...]
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A successful production? What is a successful theatrical production? In what ways is success measured? If one takes the history of theatre into consideration, the survival of the best plays and the establishment of a ‘canon,’ it becomes clear that different criteria are applied in different contexts. Literary criteria are often applied and just as [...]
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The colour of truth What colour is truth? There have been countless attempts to define it in various academic fields and philosophies without arriving at anything conclusive and always seeming to agree that as an abstract concept its dimensions and definitions are inexhaustible. In religions it has even been equated to god himself, and always [...]
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Harold Pinter: The renewer of English drama in the 20th century At the end of the year 2008 Britain mourned at the death of one of the most dominant and influential English playwrights of the contemporary era. Some commentators recognise him as the most influential in English drama of the second half of the twentieth [...]
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‘Dark novel’ Twenty-one years after it was first published and twenty years after it began to receive unending world critical acclaim, a book “universally acknowledged” as one of the foremost novels in contemporary literature written by one of the world’s most celebrated authors was yet again highlighted on centre stage before an international audience. One [...]
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Omeros returns to the spotlight Derek Walcott’s exceptional 300-page poem, Omeros, which received immediate universal acclaim as soon as it was released some 18 years ago, returned to the world spotlight yet again recently. The epic work, hailed as the crowning achievement which won its author the Nobel Prize in 1992, was revisited and offered [...]
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Why re-celebrate Martin Carter? Last week we highlighted contributions to the celebration of the life and work of Martin Carter and to the rememberance of the poet. The text below is taken from ‘Why Re-Celebrate Martin Carter?’ by Al Creighton presented as the Introduction to the programme ‘An Evening of Poetry, Prose and Music’ at [...]
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Celebrating Martin Carter Castellani House has a very distinguished history. It was named after an architect from colonial times who was a quintessential artist, leaving his exceptional marks of distinction as monuments in Guyana’s history and architecture. Castellani House will survive and ensure that the famous designer’s name survives along with Guyanese art. Perhaps it [...]
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Religion and theatre still interact dynamically Even now, after so much has developed and so much has been said about it, the close inter-relationship between theatre and religious ritual remains an interesting subject. After so many thousand years in the evolution of human society the two still exist in the same space and the spectacle [...]
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‘All walls crumble where art is concerned’ As a part of their diplomatic strategy it is common practice for nations to maintain cultural outreach activities in foreign countries with which they have relations. There are many reasons for this. The ambassadors may say quite a lot, but the main objective is not merely to provide [...]
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‘Season 29’ Guyana’s National Dance Company celebrated its Dance Season 2008 with a programme that it called ‘Season 29 – Theme and Variations’ at the National Cultural Centre. A company’s annual season is generally a fairly uncomplicated activity for a group that has been busy all year. It is a production of selected performances in [...]
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Kanyadaam: Statements on various issues A considerable amount of attention is being paid at the present time to the problems of domestic violence and domestic abuse. The campaign against these social atrocities has intensified partly because of what appears to have been a noticeable increase in crimes against women. These have included a sudden rash [...]
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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 was an entirely different movement. This backyard theatre evolved [...]
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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 what give a paper its character” and that [...]