Ringplay Productions

Three things maybe you should know about Shakespeare in Paradise.

1. It’s happening in Nassau, Bahamas, 5-12 October, 2009.
2. The founders met through the month of June, collecting volunteers of various kinds and hearing from all sorts of well-wishers, and have come out with some solid goals and tasks to take us through to October. We need all the help we can get, and we also need people who want to get onstage as well as people who want to work behind the scenes. You can join the Facebook group,  visit the official site for Shakespeare in Paradise, and in a short while subscribe to the Shakespeare in Paradise blog and Twitter pages!
3. The organizers are currently working on fundraising and soliciting sponsors for the festival. If you’re still wondering how you can help, big it up! And plan to be there — the more tickets that sell the more confidence is build and the more exposure sponsors get.

Here’s the current line-up for the Festival week, with Bahamian productions included:

THE TEMPEST by William Shakespeare, dramaturged by Nicolette Bethel, Toni Francis, Travis Cartwright-Carroll, and Reva Sharma

Producer: Ringplay Productions
Directors: Patti-Anne Ali (Trinidad and Tobago), Craig Pinder (Bahamas/UK)

ZORA by Laurence Holder, a one-woman play about the life of African-American folklorist and novelist Zora Neale Hurston

Featured performer: Kim Brockington (USA)

ONE WHITE ONE BLACK by Frank McField, the Caymanian two-man play that took CARIFESTA X Guyana by storm in 2008

Director: Henry Muttoo (Cayman/Guyana)

SHOWS by KEN CORSBIE, the Guyanese-American storyteller and performer whose return to Guyana for CARIFESTA X was hailed as the high point of the festival

Featured performer: Ken Corsbie (USA/Guyana)

LOVE IN TWO ACTS, two one-act plays by Alfred Sutro and Anton Chekhov, adapted for The Bahamas by Matthew Kelly

Producer: Track Road Theatre Foundation
Director: Matthew Kelly

MUSIC OF THE BAHAMAS, the Bahamian docu-musical based on E. Clement Bethel’s master’s thesis, adapted for the stage by Philip A. Burrows and Nicolette Bethel

Producer: Ringplay Productions
Director: Philip A. Burrows

Tags: Shakespeare in Paradise

No Comments »

Comments RSS