http://nicobethel.net/ringplay Weblog of Ringplay Productions Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:09:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just a note for those of you who tried to access Ringplay today and couldn’t, here’s a note from our service provider about it: UPDATE: All Services Are Being Restored We experienced a power supply issue at one of our data centers, which caused the startlogic.com site, as well as some of ... http://nicobethel.net/ringplay/2009/06/15/server-outage/ 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 ... http://nicobethel.net/ringplay/2009/06/04/shakespeare-in-paradise-the-dream/ For those of you who have given up on Ringplay and this blog, know that, like bad children, silence means that we're up to no good. And here's the result of all of that silence: Ringplay Productions is excited to announce the First Annual International Shakespeare in Paradise Theatre Festival, to be ... http://nicobethel.net/ringplay/2009/06/01/announcing-shakespeare-in-paradise/ 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 ... http://nicobethel.net/ringplay/2009/02/28/love-in-two-acts-track-road-theatre/ 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 ... http://nicobethel.net/ringplay/2009/02/12/day-of-absence-at-collegeuniversity-of-the-bahamas/ 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 ... http://nicobethel.net/ringplay/2009/02/12/douglas-turner-wards-day-of-absence/ 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 http://nicobethel.net/ringplay/2009/02/01/day-of-absence/ 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 ... http://nicobethel.net/ringplay/2009/01/30/day-of-absence-february-11/   [caption id="attachment_348" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Harold Pinter, AP Photo/ Max Nash"][/caption] 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 ... http://nicobethel.net/ringplay/2008/12/25/r-i-p-harold-pinter/ http://nicobethel.net/ringplay/2008/11/13/in-memoriam-miriam-makeba/