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Music of The Bahamas Auditions

Title: Music of The Bahamas Auditions Location: St George’s Anglican Church, Montrose Avenue Description: Auditions for Music of The Bahamas – looking for singers & dancers Start Time: 16:00:00 Date: 2009-08-15

Rehearsals begin!

The Tempest

As noted before, The Tempest has been cast. And here’s the cast: Prospero – Craig Pinder Ariel – Dana Ferguson Caliban – Kennedy Storr Miranda – Nicole Fair Bhatti Ferdinand – Gene (Lucas) Cage Gonzalo – Gordon Mills Michaela Alonso – Jane Poveromo Sebastian – Mik Bancroft Antonio – David Jonathan Burrows Stephano – Anthony [...]

Auditions for The Tempest

Yesterday we held the first auditions for The Tempest, Ringplay’s signature production for Shakespeare in Paradise. Running the auditions was our guest director Craig Pinder, a Bahamian actor whose career on London’s West End includes featured performances in Les Misérables and Mamma Mia! as well as numerous productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Craig’s co-directing [...]

The Tempest goes into Production

The first auditions for The Tempest by William Shakespeare, adapted and dramaturged for a Bahamian setting by Nicolette Bethel, Travis Cartwright-Carroll, Reva Sharma, and Toni Francis, will be held tomorrow, Saturday, August 1st. The Tempest is the signature piece of this year’s Shakespeare in Paradise theatre festival (October 5th – 12th, 2009). Auditions will be [...]

Shakespeare in Paradise

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

Shakespeare in Paradise Update

Three things maybe you should know about Shakespeare in Paradise. It’s happening in Nassau, Bahamas, 5-12 October, 2009. 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 [...]

Shakespeare in Paradise – the dream

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 — [...]