Archive for the 'Miscellany' Category

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: February 11

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 [...]

In Memoriam Miriam Makeba

Finding the Space for Theatre

The problem with being committed to doing full theatre, the whole shebang, with costume changes and sets and props and lighting effects and what-have-you, is that there really aren’t a whole lot of spaces in Nassau to do it in.

People who focus on social commentary, satire, and sketches are better served.  There are spaces that [...]

General Update

I want to say a big thank-you to those people who continue to check in with this website and read it.
Ringplay is on hiatus for the time being, but we plan to begin work again starting this August. Watch this space.
In the meantime, break a leg!

Upgrading

So hold your breath. I’ll be upgrading to WordPress 2.1 this week, which could be disastrous for all concerned; the point is, expect challenges when linking to this blog, and be patient.
All may go well, but we shall have to see.
Cheers.

Martin Luther King Day (USA)

No, Virginia, Ringplay is NOT dead

Hibernating, perhaps, but not dead.
Nor is this blog, although you’d be forgiven for thinking it was. A month’s silence is a long time, and unforgivable. Please forgive us.
A few updates. Most of us have been pretty busy with other things. The most exciting thing of all is that the discussion forum at [...]

Slight change in look

We wanted to feature the Ringplay Logo on our front page. After some playing around, we’ve got a slightly different look.
Hope you enjoy.