Ringplay on Dec 14 2009 | Filed under: General Theatre
Sixty years of forgotten treasures
Britain is to get a Black Theatre Archive. Playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah relives his role in its creation
In Britain, my work is almost exclusively compared to that of Roy Williams. This has always enraged me. Roy is a fine, prolific writer; but even if we were to be compared on the most [...]
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 Aug 02 2009 | Filed under: Productions, Shakespeare in Paradise
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 production [...]
Ringplay on Jul 31 2009 | Filed under: SidenotesOne
Title: The Tempest Auditions
Location: The Hub, Bay and Colebrook
Link out: Click here
Description: Auditions for The Tempest, signature production of Shakespeare in Paradise
Start Time: 11:00
Date: 2009-08-01
End Time: 13:00
Ringplay on Jul 31 2009 | Filed under: Festivals, Productions, Ringplay Productions, Shakespeare in Paradise
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 held on [...]
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 et [...]
Nico on Sep 06 2008 | Filed under: CARIFESTA, Productions, Ringplay Productions
When I attended the meeting of the Regional Cultural Committee in Georgetown in April, Guyana’s CARIFESTA Secretariat promised us that each segment of every contingent would perform four times in Guyana — twice in Georgetown and twice outside the city. The regional Directors of Culture (who comprise the RCC) were not surprisingly sceptical. [...]
Nico on Jun 08 2008 | Filed under: Annoucements, General Theatre, Productions
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