R.I.P. Trevor Rhone
Ringplay on Sep 16 2009 at 10:52 am | Filed under: R.I.P.
Yesterday we were shocked and saddened to hear that Trevor Rhone died of a heart attack, at only 69.
For those of you who don’t know who Trevor Rhone is, or don’t know you know who he is: he co-wrote the 1970 Jamaican cult classic film The Harder They Come.
In the theatre world, though, he’s remembered both here in Nassau and in his native Jamaica as one of the region’s most prominent playwrights. Bahamian companies have produced at least three of his plays both here and in Grand Bahama over time — School’s Out, Smile Orange, and of course, Old Story Time, which premiered in Nassau at the Dundas with the following Bahama Drama Circle cast: Winston Saunders, John Trainer, Pandora Gibson-Gomez, Calvin Cooper, Gwen Kelly, and Joan Vanderpool. In the 1980s, too, the Dundas Repertory hosted another of Trevor’s plays, Two Can Play by a company out of Guyana. We will miss him!
The Caribbean world has lost another great playwright. Walk good, Trevor. Walk good.
