Al Creighton

Arts on Sunday Although that might evoke quite a nice laugh, it is neither as laughable, as farfetched or as unlikely as it sounds. 

The Theatre Guild’s problems are not yet overIn 2004 ‘Arts on Sunday’ in the Sunday Stabroek carried a virtual SOS for the rescue of the  Theatre Guild whose Playhouse and adjoining buildings were in a state of serious disrepair and seemed about to collapse. 

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 of Spayne, the winde for the most part continuing prosperous;  wee passed in sight of the Burlings and the rocke, and so onwards for the Canaries and fell with Fuerte ventura the 17 of the same moneth… “The empire of Gviana is directly east from Peru towards the sea, and lieth under the equinoctial line; and it hath more abundance of gold than any part of Peru, and as many or more great cities than ever Peru had when it flourished most.”

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 Trinidad.

Milton Hatoum’s multicultural Amazon This week Arts on Sunday takes a brief look at one aspect of contemporary Brazilian literature. 

Nrityageet 30: A varied programmeOne of Guyana’s most prominent annual dance productions celebrated its “30th Anniver-sary Performance” at the National Cultural Centre last week in commemoration of Indian Arrival Day. 

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 sector, tourism industry and in some areas of culture at the Convention Centre in Lilliendaal. 

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 week for an international conference on West Indian literature hosted by the University of Guyana. 

  The performance tradition of Ramlila returned to Guyana with last week’s production by the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha at the National Cultural Centre. 

Mrs Jagan: An evergreen interest in the artsArt requires talent  –  real talent and not mere literacy in any medium. 

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. 

Carnival: undergoing changeThe January/February edition is usually the carnival issue of the magazine Caribbean Beat produced by MEP for Caribbean Airlines and edited by Judy Raymond. 

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, is one of the most influential names in the history of scientific discovery. 

The year 2009 has seen the very important return of The Link Show to the Guyanese stage. 

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 close to each other in the Caribbean-South America carnival belt, so that tomorrow the festival will be at its peak in all three of them. 

The spirit of the ageI’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 what result?

A successful production?What is a successful theatrical production? In what ways is success measured? 

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 conclusive and always seeming to agree that as an abstract concept its dimensions and definitions are inexhaustible. 

Harold Pinter: The renewer of English drama in the 20th centuryAt the end of the year 2008 Britain mourned at the death of one of the most dominant and influential English playwrights of the contemporary era. 

‘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 one of the foremost novels in contemporary literature written by one of the world’s most celebrated authors was yet again highlighted on centre stage before an international audience.