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Inspired by Caribbean playwrights and artists like Dennis Scott, the Collective utilizes songs, games, rituals, folklore, African stories, reggae, and other elements of Jamaican popular culture in their plays. [5] Performances often rely heavily on dance, mime, and ritual.
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His first play produced there was Dame Lorraine, the final play of his Caribbean trilogy. Set in modern times, the play tells the story of an elderly couple living in Harlem that anxiously await the return of their last surviving son who has just been released from prison.
After seeing his first play at the age of nine, he fell in love with theatre. Educated at Beckford & Smith High School, now known as St. Jago High School , he began his theatre career as a teacher after a three-year stint at Rose Bruford College , an English drama school, where he studied in the early 1960s on scholarship. [ 4 ]
He returned temporarily to St Lucia in 1977 to become the first Director of Culture (1977–80). [citation needed] He was the author of several plays, many of them published by the Extra-Mural Department of the University of the West Indies. His play The Harrowing of Benjy is the most produced play in the English-speaking Caribbean. [1]
His plays include Terminus (1966), Dog, and An Echo in the Bone (1974); the latter was published, together with a play by Derek Walcott and one by Errol Hill, in Plays for Today (1985), edited by Hill. [citation needed] Scott's dramatic work is acknowledged as a major influence on the direction of Caribbean theatre. [2]
One of Clejan's fans asked him to play the theme song from The Pirates of the Carribean movie and so he took them up on the challenge. Watch as he begins to play and the turtles come running, um ...
Earl Wilbert Lovelace (born 13 July 1935) is a Trinidad and Tobago novelist, journalist, playwright, and short story writer.He is particularly recognized for his descriptive, dramatic fiction on Trinidadian culture: "Using Trinidadian dialect patterns and standard English, he probes the paradoxes often inherent in social change as well as the clash between rural and urban cultures."