During the National Drama Festival in 2013 and again last year in Guyana, it would have been noted that there were multiple entries of plays written by Guyanese dramatist Paloma Mohamed, performed by different groups. This gives some indication of her place as an established national playwright whose work is in demand and is actively a part of the corpus of Guyanese drama.
Mohamed’s work was pronounced in the Secondary Schools and Debutante categories. In the same year, two different groups entered Chupucabra, while there were also two separate entries by different groups of Anansi’s Way. In both cases they accounted for the Best Production Awards–Chupucabra among the Debutantes and Anansi’s Way in the Secondary Schools’. Other groups entered Massacuraman and a little known Mohamed play called Baba Scissors and the Dictionary.
Apart from those one-act dramas or short plays there was the significant entry of a full length Mohamed comedy Anybody See Brenda? in the Open category. In a festival where there is a definite trend in which most of the entries have been new plays, a Paloma Mohamed drama was among the
