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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Nico on Sep 21 2008 | Filed under: General Theatre, Productions
The NDTC was in town this weekend. I was supposed to post the flyer but never did. Things are winding down for at work and life intervened. Didn’t stop us from attending, however! Some photographs, courtesy of Peter Ramsay: Check back for a full review.
Nico on Sep 12 2008 | Filed under: General Theatre
This site’s worth watching. What’s especially worth watching is the piece that is currently the second one on the page (which doesn’t appear to work the way blogs usually work, so prepare to scroll) – “An open letter to Prime Minister Harper From Wajdi Mouawad, Governor General Award-winning Canadian playwright; Knight of the Ordre National des Arts [...]
Nico on Sep 03 2008 | Filed under: CARIFESTA, General Theatre, Productions, Ringplay Productions
The Children’s Teeth was featured at CARIFESTA X, and toured Guyana, set and all. The experience was invaluable — we performed in spaces we would not have chosen for ourselves, despite the existence of at least two enviable national Guyanese performance spaces, the like of which only our hotels provide in The Bahamas. The experience [...]
Philip on Jul 03 2008 | Filed under: General Theatre, Productions, Ringplay Productions
If I had a nose like Florine I wouldn’t go around saying Merry Christmas to anybody. Excuse me for askin’, but how come she ain’ hire fo’ herself? This isn’t a Christmas present. What a same a wonderful girl like you never married. I didn’t have any business coming in the car by myself with [...]
Philip on Jun 22 2008 | Filed under: General Theatre, Productions, Ringplay Productions
Nico on Jun 17 2008 | Filed under: General Theatre
Cyd Charisse, 86, dead. LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Cyd Charisse, the long-legged Texas beauty who danced with the Ballet Russe as a teenager and starred in MGM musicals with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, died Tuesday. She was 86. … Classically trained, she could dance anything, from a pas de deux in 1946′s “Ziegfeld [...]
