The play Watch De Ride 3 recently performed at the National Cultural Centre made a number of apposite statements. It virtually confirmed recent trends in Guyanese theatre in terms of dramatic types and subjects, audience and audience behaviour. This includes the important factor of audience preferences. It highlighted the main focus of contemporary Guyanese drama at the moment and the prevailing factor of the popular theatre. But the play registered its own statement while aiming to be entertaining. Of great interest in all of this is the way it tried to be relevant.
Watch De Ride 3, which was sub-titled “Snap Chat Blues”, is the latest drama by prominent Guyanese dramatist Ronald Hollingsworth. As a major national playwright, more than many others living overseas, he has been fairly prolific and has sustained a strong presence on the local stage. There has been an unending series of his plays every year produced in Guyana by H and T Theatre Arts Group directed by Hollingsworth and Sheron Cadogan-Taylor. They have
