Bahamian plays
Nico on Feb 26 2006 at 2:15 pm | Filed under: General Theatre
Nico says:
I’ve been getting phonecalls and emails lately (thanks Monique Toppin!) from students at the College of The Bahamas asking about Bahamian plays.
Being an educator at heart, and knowing that there isn’t anything valuable to be gained by simply telling students the answer to the question, as that allows their brains to remain off (there’s a key there, people, turn it, start that engine!), I haven’t been awfully helpful.
I did direct them to this website, and to …conch een ga no bone. But to be a little helpful, there’s now a page on which we’ve listed all the Bahamian plays we can think of. Note: the groundbreaking work of Fr. John Taylor, recognized as the first real Bahamian playwright, isn’t listed there — we’d be happy if people would let us know about that.
So students who make their way here might find a list of plays for their edification. But. There’s nothing to be gained in having a list of plays without knowing what those plays say and what those playwrights actually said — titles mean nothing.
But when we say that drama makes up a huge portion of Bahamian literature, we’re not kidding. Are we?
