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By Al Creighton | Sunday, June 14, 2009 | 0 Comments
Arts on Sunday
Although that might evoke quite a nice laugh, it is neither as laughable, as farfetched or as unlikely as it sounds. Although the …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, June 7, 2009 | 0 Comments
The Theatre Guild’s problems are not yet over
In 2004 ‘Arts on Sunday’ in the Sunday Stabroek carried a virtual SOS for the rescue of …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, May 31, 2009 | 0 Comments
Arts on Sunday
“On Thursday the 6 of Februarie in the yeare 1595, we departed England, and the sunday following had sight of the North cape …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, May 24, 2009 | 0 Comments
There have been some complaints about the very popular Radika Invasion, the latest in a long line of productions in Guyana featuring chutney-soca performers from …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, May 17, 2009 | 0 Comments
Milton Hatoum’s multicultural Amazon
This week Arts on Sunday takes a brief look at one aspect of contemporary Brazilian literature. The culture of South America’s largest …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, May 10, 2009 | 1 Comment
Nrityageet 30: A varied programme
One of Guyana’s most prominent annual dance productions celebrated its “30th Anniver-sary Performance” at the National Cultural Centre last week in …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, May 3, 2009 | 0 Comments
Al Creighton’s (Arts on Sunday)
Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo held a conference last week with a wide range of officials and practitioners in the country’s tourism …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, April 26, 2009 | 1 Comment
The West Indian Literature Conference: ‘Quiet Revolutions’
Most of the leading critics and several scholars in the field of Caribbean literature will assemble in Guyana this …
By Al Creighton | Saturday, April 18, 2009 | 0 Comments
The revival of Ramlila
The performance tradition of Ramlila returned to Guyana with last week’s production by the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha at the National Cultural …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, April 12, 2009 | 0 Comments
Mrs Jagan: An evergreen interest in the arts
Art requires talent - real talent and not mere literacy in any medium. I see no substitute for …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, March 22, 2009 | 1 Comment
Arts on Sunday
Satire has been a major part of western theatre from the beginning of its history when European drama developed in ancient Greece. Yet …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, March 15, 2009 | 0 Comments
Carnival: undergoing change
The January/February edition is usually the carnival issue of the magazine Caribbean Beat produced by MEP for Caribbean Airlines and edited by Judy …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, March 8, 2009 | 0 Comments
Three scientists and literature
In 2009 the world is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, who, rather like Galileo and Sigmund Freud, …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, March 1, 2009 | 2 Comments
The year 2009 has seen the very important return of The Link Show to the Guyanese stage. This was the welcome return of a tradition …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, February 22, 2009 | 0 Comments
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 …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, February 15, 2009 | 0 Comments
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 …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, February 1, 2009 | 1 Comment
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 …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, January 25, 2009 | 1 Comment
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 …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, January 18, 2009 | 0 Comments
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 …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, January 11, 2009 | 0 Comments
‘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 …
