Al Creighton

Foremost among the ‘Bard’s’ outstanding qualities are the timelessness and profundity of so many of his poetic lines. 

The screening of Brown Sugar Too Bitter For Me in Georgetown last week marks not only the release of the latest work in the building of a Guyanese film industry, but the third attempt to treat issues and struggles in the sugar industry in a movie. 

William Shakespeare (April 23, 1564-April 23, 1616) is the subject of intensified attention this weekend in his birthplace Stratford, England, and the rest of the world will take notice this week Tuesday, because April 23 will mark the celebration of Shakespeare’s birthday.

We have on previous occasions commented on the theatre of comedy as a tradition in the Caribbean, its changing trends and the way it has grown to become serious business in the Guyanese theatre. 

We returned to our places, these kingdoms But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation With an alien people clutching their gods  Eliot, “The Journey of the Magi” Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

While Anansi stories are dominant in the folk tales of the Caribbean, they were also a favourite in the storytelling tradition when it was a popular past-time in the region.

World Story-telling Day is celebrated across the globe in several different countries.

Guyana’s National Dance Company (NDC) staged their first public performance of 2013 with a full dance production at the Theatre Guild Playhouse in February. 

What mighty contests rise from trivial Things -Pope The Rape of the Lock …divers coloured fans, whose wind did seem to glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, and what they undid did – Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra Guyana’s major national festival Mashramani exploded in colour, spectacle, performance, revelry and music in February 2013 as the nation celebrated its Republic anniversary.

In a number of important ways the performance of the GT&T Link Show 29 in February and March of 2013 may be recorded as an achievement, while in a few other areas there are questions and blemishes. 

(Kris Rampersad, Littscapes: Landscapes of Fiction from Trinidad and Tobago, St Augustine, Trinidad, 2012 : 200 p.)

This is an edited text of the Keynote Address by Al Creighton delivered at the Opening of the School of Drama and Theatre Arts on January 29, 2013.

This discourse on the power and social responsibility of theatre-goers by Desryn Jones-Collins was written in response to the ‘Arts on Sunday’  feature ‘A Season of Theatre’ published in Sunday Stabroek on January 13, 2013. 

    Nanny My womb was sealed with molten wax of killer bees for nothing should enter nothing should leave the state of perpetual siege the condition of the warrior.

Today is celebrated as the Chinese New Year which ushers in ‘the year of the snake,’ a year in which Guyana commemorates the 160th anniversary of the arrival of Chinese in Guyana. 

Guyana’s National Dance Company presented Suites for its Dance Season 2012 in late November. 

This season is known for theatre in the Caribbean. Curiously, this theatre exists and has sprung from two different traditions: one that takes place on the formal (western) stage, and another belonging to the traditional theatre of the folk. 

There is no human experience that has not been dealt with in literature. 

By Alim Hosein Alim Hosein is a linguist, lecturing in the Department of Language and Cultural Studies in the School of Education and Humanities at the University of Guyana. 

A few thousand members of Guyana’s theatre audience were entertained by a variety of dramatic performances in the recently concluded 2012 National Drama Festival.