Archive for February, 2009

Love in Two Acts – Track Road Theatre

Track Road Theatre (which goes by the initials TRT these days) is back on its game with this evening of two one-act plays by European writers from the first quarter of the twentieth century. It’s one of the few times TRT has ventured outside The Bahamas for its material, and certainly the first I can [...]

Day of Absence at College/University of The Bahamas

Today, Bahamians throughout the capital wore white and called in to talk shows and blogged and wrote letters and imagined what the world would be like if all the artists disappeared.
At the College/University of The Bahamas, art students and literature students and dancers and musicians and their supporters staged a demonstration of solidarity for Bahamian [...]

Douglas Turner Ward’s Day of Absence

I got the idea for our Day of Absence from Douglas Turner Ward’s play.
Lo and behold, on YouTube I found a clip of a staged reading of that play. The above is from close to the end.
Note how the actors are playing the white characters in whiteface — a reversal of the traditional blackface that [...]

Day of Absence

Title: Day of AbsenceLocation: EverywhereLink out: Click hereDescription: A day to recognize and celebrate all creative artists who are disrespected everywhereStart Time: 0:00Date: 2009-02-11End Time: 23:59