In considering recent offerings of new plays in Guyana, one can sense what seems to be a current trend developing. The dominance of not only laughter but slapstick continues across the Caribbean, but a concern for social issues has been regaining ground. While there is a sense of this as a factor within the farces in Jamaica, Guyanese playwrights have returned to treatment of a few burning issues in most of the new plays which are not farces. The most recent example of plays which try to do this is Snapped, performed last week in Georgetown. But while such new work exhibits a
