Archive for December, 2005

Happy New Year!

We’d like to take a moment in these, the final hours of 2005, to wish all our friends and supporters all the best for 2006. The various tragedies of December 2005 demonstrate just how precious life is. All we can do is live life the fullest and most honest way we can, and [...]

Milestones

The title of this post seems more than banal in the face of the tragedy that’s come over the theatrical community in the past month. I’m talking about the sudden and unexpected passing of two very different men whose activities made the theatre world richer than it had been before them: Leo Roberts, [...]

Caribarts.org — the home of Caribbean culture

For those of you who aren’t aware of this site, it’s a great initiative:
Caribarts.org.
In effect, it’s a site featuring Caribbean arts and culture. As usual, The Bahamas is poorly represented, but that might be as much our fault as anyone’s. As usual, we’re bad at appreciating our own, and we’re bad at acknowledging [...]

Theatre of the Street

The time has come, I think, for us to start talking about Junkanoo as theatre of the street.
That is, of course, what it is, without a doubt. Peter Minshall, the great Trinidadian carnival designer, has argued that carnival is street theatre — theatre with audiences on two sides. In fact, Trinidadian actor-director Errol [...]

Compliments of the Season!

Well, Christmas is upon us.
Ringplay would like to take the opportunity to wish all of our friends, audiences and fans a very merry Christmas and a blessed new year.
We’ve got lots planned for 2006. We’re still on the look-out for a home base, and we’re considering producing at least two plays in the new [...]

NAGB’s Discussion on a National Theatre

Here’s a report on the gathering last night at the Art Gallery. I doubt I will do it justice in a single post, but I invite those people who were there to submit their own observations as well — maybe we can extend the dialogue.
The three presenters were Cleveland “Anku” Eneas III of Thoughtkatcher, [...]

Discussion at the Art Gallery on a National Theatre

The question is what has held back Bahamian theatre?
The focus is on local productions, the theatre of social commentary – Catalyn, Pintard, Eneas, Thompson.

An index to updates

Right. Photos have been added to the summary of Horse in Michigan, just you can get a little of the flavour of that experience.
Philip did a listing of comments received at the end of October. Here’s an update for November:
Between November 6 and 7, Nico, Philip, Derek Catalyn and Sean Nottage commented on [...]

Ringplay arises from the dead

Well, it’s been some time since we last wrote. That isn’t to say that we’ve not been busy, but we haven’t touched the blog. Our apologies!
In the way of updating you on what’s been going on:
The IDB/Ringplay Production Workshops have come to an end now. The production workshop was perhaps not as [...]