Ringplay on Aug 07 2009 | Filed under: General Theatre, SidenotesOne
Title: The Tempest Auditions (2)Location: The Hub, Bay and ColebrookLink out: Click hereDescription: Auditions for The Tempest – MEN ONLYStart Time: 11:00:00Date: 2009-08-08End Time: 13:00:00
Ringplay on Aug 05 2009 | Filed under: General Theatre, Productions
In 2001, the inaugural Ringplay production was the Bahamian Macbeth. An adaptation of Shakespeare’s original play for a Bahamian setting and audience, it had been created originally during the 1970s by the late Rosanna Seaborn (aka Todd), and in 2000, the newly-formed Ringplay Productions modernized it for the 21st century. In it, Macbeth was transformed [...]
Ringplay on Jul 07 2009 | Filed under: Events, General Theatre, Shakespeare in Paradise, SidenotesOne
Title: Shakespeare in Paradise
Location: Nassau, Bahamas
Link out: Click here
Description: A theatre festival for Nassau and the world
Start Date: 2009-10-05
Start Time: 10:00
End Date: 2009-10-12
Ringplay on Jul 07 2009 | Filed under: General Theatre, SidenotesOne
Title: Da “Recession” Spot
Location: Nirvana, West Bay Street, Nassau
Link out: Click here
Description: Thoughtkatcher’s annual improv, every Tuesday from June 30-August 17, 2009
Start Date: 2009-06-30
Start Time: 20:00
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Ringplay on Jun 04 2009 | Filed under: Festivals, General Theatre, Shakespeare in Paradise
So what possesses a group of people to up and decide to create a theatre festival with no money to speak of, nothing but a dream?
For us, it all began just over ten years ago. Back then, Ringplay was just about a twinkle in the founders’ eyes. The Dundas Repertory was still going — it [...]
Nico on Feb 28 2009 | Filed under: General Theatre, Productions, Reviews
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 [...]
Nico on Feb 12 2009 | Filed under: General Theatre, Miscellany
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 [...]
Nico on Feb 01 2009 | Filed under: General Theatre
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
Nico on Jan 30 2009 | Filed under: Annoucements, General Theatre, Miscellany
In 1965, an African-American playwright by the name of Douglas Turner Ward wrote a play he called Day of Absence, which told the story of a small town — any small town — in the Deep South in which the white inhabitants discover on a particular day that all the black people have disappeared.
When this fact becomes general [...]
Nico on Dec 25 2008 | Filed under: General Theatre
Moment of silence.
Nobel-winning playwright Harold Pinter dies at 78
By PAISLEY DODDS – 1 hour ago
LONDON (AP) — Harold Pinter, praised as the most influential British playwright of his generation and a longtime voice of political protest, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 78.
Pinter, whose distinctive contribution to the stage was recognized with [...]
