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A bibliography of drama in English by Caribbean writers, to 2010 compiled by

George Parfitt and Jessica Parfitt

This bibliography is inevitably incomplete. A note of principal sources used will be found at the end. Corrections, gap-fillers, and additions, preferably by e-mail, are welcome: [email protected]

  • AUTHOR
  • BIRTH

PLACE

  • TITLE
  • Earliest Perf

known venue perf. or

  • Place
  • Pub’n Publisher

date
Place of

pub’n

Radio Notes /TV/ Film written date

  • Aaron,
  • See Steve Hyacinth

Philbert Abbensetts, Michael

  • Guyana
  • Alterations
  • 1978
  • New End Hampstead 2001
  • Oberon
  • London
  • R
  • Revised 1985.

Produced for BBC World Service 1980.

  • Theatre
  • London

In M.A.Four Plays

Abbensetts, Michael Abbensetts, Michael Abbensetts, Michael Abbensetts, Michael Abbensetts, Michael Abbensetts, Michael
Guyana Guyana Guyana Guyana Guyana Guyana
Big George 1994 Is Dead
Channel 4BBC TV
TV TV R

  • Black
  • 1977

1978 1976
Christmas Brothers of the Sword Crime and Punishment
BBC Radio

  • ITV
  • TV

  • TV
  • Easy Money 1982
  • BBC TV
  • First episode of BBC

‘Playhouse’ Series

In M.A.Four Plays

  • El Dorado
  • 1984
  • Theatre

Royal
Stratford East,

  • 2001
  • Oberon
  • London

London
Abbensetts, Michael Abbensetts, Michael
Guyana Guyana Guyana
Empire Road Heavy Manners Home
1978 - 79
BBC TV Birmingham
TV F
First black British T.V. soap opera. Wrote 2 series

  • Abbensetts,
  • 1975
  • BBC
  • R

Michael Abbensetts, Michael
Again In The Mood
Radio Hampstead

  • Guyana
  • 1981
  • London
  • 2001
  • Oberon
  • London

In M.A.Four Plays

Theatre Granada TV Channel 4Arts Theatre ITV
Abbensetts, Michael Abbensetts, Michael Abbensetts, Michael Abbensetts, Michael
Guyana Guyana Guyana Guyana Guyana
Inner City Blues Little Napoleons Outlaw
1975 1994 1983
Manchester
TV TV

Episode One of ‘Crown Court’

4-part drama
Leicester

  • Roadrunner 1977
  • TV

TV

First episode of ‘ITV Playhouse’ series

Episode 4, Series 1 of Empire Road. In Living

Together

Abbensetts, Michael

Royston’s

Day

  • 1978
  • BBC TV Birming-

ham
1988 1980

  • Heinemann
  • London

  • London
  • Abbensetts,

Michael Abbensetts, Michael Abbensetts, Michael
Guyana Guyana Guyana

  • Samba
  • 1980

1985 1973
Tricycle Theatre BBC Radio Royal Court Upstairs BBC Radio BBC Radio Cochrane London

  • London
  • Eyre

Methuen
Summer Passions Sweet Talk
RR

‘Monday Play’

  • London
  • 1974
  • Eyre

Methuen

  • London
  • Also BBC Radio 1974

Abbensetts, Michael Abbensetts, Michael Abbensetts, Michael Abbensetts, Michael
Guyana Guyana Guyana Guyana
The Dark Horse The Fast Lane
1981 1980 1993 1973
RR

  • The Lion
  • Produced with Talawa

Theatre Co. Season 8, Episode 36 of

BBC’s ‘30 Minute Theatre’

series

‘Windrush Season Still Here’

In Living Together

The Museum Attendant The Record 1998 Collection The Street

  • BBC TV
  • TV

  • TV
  • Abbensetts,

Michael Abbensetts, Michael Abbensetts, Michael
Guyana Guyana Guyana
BBC TV

  • 1988
  • Heinemann
  • London

Party The Sunny Side of the Street

Vanessa’s

World
1977 2001
BBC Radio
R
Abbensetts, Michael

  • Guyana
  • BBC TV Birming-

ham
TV

‘Doctors’ Series, Episode

One.
Adams, Eleston

‘Namba’

Founder/playwright Rio Revealers. Allegedly author of some 14 plays, but no details found

Antigua

Agard, John Agard, John
Guyana Guyana
Beauty and Babel the Beast Go Noah Go!
1995 2009 1985
Oval House

  • London
  • 1995

1992

  • Oval House
  • London

Picture Knight
Sevenoaks, Kent
With Judy Brown
Agard, John Agard, John
Guyana Guyana

  • Great
  • 1993

2000

  • Ginn
  • London

Snakeskin Odessa and the Magic Goat

  • Faber
  • London
  • In Helen Rose (ed.) Plays

for Children

  • Agard, John
  • Guyana
  • Petrushka
  • Little

Angel
London

  • Ali, Patti-Ann
  • See Joey Clarke

  • One Act
  • Alladin, M.P. Trinidad

and Tobago
Alladin, M.P. Trinidad and Tobago
Alladin, M.P. Trinidad and Tobago Antigua
Brainser Hosay
1970 1970 1970
Selfpublished Selfpublished Self-
Port of Spain Port of Spain Port of Spain
One Act

  • The P.S.
  • One Act

published
Allen, Howard
See Jermilla Kirwan
Allen, Lillian Jamaica Allen, Lillian Jamaica
Art and Motherhood Love and Other
1991 and
Dub poet
Strange Things
1993
Allen, Lillian Jamaica Allen, Lillian Jamaica

  • Marketplace 1995
  • R

  • One
  • 1987

Bedroom With Dignity
Amoroso, Ronald Amoroso,
Trinidad and Tobago Clot Trinidad The Master

  • The Blood
  • 1970

1974
Trinidad Caracas,
One Act

  • 1979
  • Longman
  • Port of
  • One Act. In Errol Hill (ed.)

Ronald Anderson, Balfour

  • and Tobago of Carnival
  • Venezuela

Kingston
Spain

Three Caribbean Plays

  • Jamaica
  • No
  • 2009

1989
Pantry Playhous eBarn Theatre
Compromis e
Anderson, Balfour

  • Jamaica
  • Secret

Lovers

  • Kingston
  • Also produced in Miami.

Six more plays at Green Gables Theatre, Jamaica, 1988-90. No details. Claims a number of other one act and full-length dramas

  • See Frank Pilgrim
  • Anderson,

Peter

  • Anonymous
  • Jamaica
  • In Stormy

Days, or The Vow That Saved Jamaica Pillars in the 1970s Mud The Court del Santa Cruz

  • 1897
  • Theatre

Royal
Kingston Kingston
Alpha Cottage Sisters, Alpha Cottage High School

Anonymous Anonymous

  • Guyana?
  • Not certainly by a

Guyanese
Trinidad and Tobago? Trinidad and Tobago? Jamaica
1845 1845 1855

  • Anonymous
  • The Grand

Seignor

Anonymous: A Gentleman of this City
Edinburgh Castle, or The Last Days of
Theatre Royal
Kingston
Hutchinson, the Assassin Rudolph: The Calabrian Banditti
Anonymous: A Gentleman of this City

  • Jamaica
  • 1822
  • Kingston Kingston

Theatre

Melodrama. Burnett’s

Company of Comedians
Anonymous: A Kingston Gentleman Anonymous: A West
Jamaica Jamaica
The Man of 1859 My Own Choice
Theatre Royal

  • Kingston
  • Lanergan Company

Scandal Club, or
1782

  • Indian Lady
  • Virtue in

Danger
Archibald, Douglas (Rupert) Archibald, Douglas (Rupert) Archibald, Douglas (Rupert)
Trinidad and Tobago

  • Anne-Marie 1958
  • Port of

Spain
1967 1977
UWI Extra Mural
Port of Spain
Also produced London,

1976. Caribbean Plays:One Act Play

Trinidad and Tobago Beyond

  • Back of
  • 1984
  • Port of

Spain

Trinidad and Tobago Honour

  • Defeat with 1977
  • UWI Extra

Mural
St Augustine,

Caribbean Plays and Other Publications 7

Trinidad Port of Spain
Archibald, Douglas (Rupert) Archibald, Douglas (Rupert) Archibald, Douglas (Rupert) Archibald, Douglas (Rupert) Archibald, Douglas (Rupert) Archibald, Douglas (Rupert) Archibald, Douglas (Rupert) Archibald, Douglas (Rupert) Arrindell, Barbara
Trinidad and Tobago the Turtle

  • Isidore and
  • 1977

1972 1958
UWI Extra Mural

Caribbean Plays and Other Publications 5

Trinidad and Tobago

  • Island Tide
  • 1972

1954 1972 1965 1962

1973?

  • San
  • UWI Extra

Mural
Port of Spain
R

Stage and radio. Caribbean Plays and Other Publications 6

Also produced in London, 1955
Fernando, Trinidad Port of Spain
Trinidad and Tobago Village

  • Junction
  • UWI Extra

Mural
Mona, Jamaica

Trinidad My Good and Tobago Friend
Justice
Trinidad and Tobago Tale
TV

Old Maid’s

Port of Spain
1966 1967
UWI Extra Mural
Port of Spain

Caribbean Plays: One Act Play, 12

Trinidad and Tobago Bamboo
Clump
Trinidad and Tobago Next Door

  • The
  • Port of

Spain
UWI Extra Mural
Port of Spain

Caribbean Plays and Other Publications 1

  • The Family
  • R
  • Series

Trinidad and Tobago Slip

  • The Rose
  • 1962
  • Port of

Spain
1972 1966
UWI Extra Mural
Port of Spain

Caribbean Plays: One Act Play

Antigua Trinidad

Dreams…Fa 2001 ces…Realit

y

St John’s,

Antigua
Author and director. St John’s Youth Drama Group

  • Ashby,
  • Sailors
  • UWI Extra
  • Port of

Caribbean Plays: One Act

Osborne Ashby, Osborne

  • and Tobago Ashore
  • Mural

UWI Extra Mural
Spain Port of Spain

Play 8

  • Trinidad
  • The doctor
  • 1966

Adapted from Moliere’s Le

Médecin Malgré Lui. Caribbean Plays: One Act Play 8

and Tobago in spite of himself

  • Asika,
  • Trinidad

and Tobago Lady

  • Orange
  • n.d.
  • Self-

published
Trinidad? Jamaica?
Nkemba (Frank John) Atkinson, Dermot Augier, Adrian Augier, Adrian Augier, Adrian
Jamaica St Lucia St Lucia St Lucia
The Meeting Anthem

  • 1985
  • Self-

published

  • 2004
  • Founded Lighthouse

Theatre, 1983. Folk musical Staged in London and St Lucia Produced as part of St

Lucia’s Independence

activities
BridgeMake 2000 r

  • Esperance
  • 2009

Augier, Adrian Augier, Adrian Augustus, Earl
St Lucia St Lucia Trinidad

  • Hewanorra
  • 2007

Troumassay 2000 Amarimba
Staged in St Lucia, Dublin, Guadaloupe
1975

1984
Selfpublished
Port of

  • Spain
  • and Tobago and the

Birth of the Drum

  • Baku, Shango Trinidad
  • Baku

Publications
Belmont, Trinidad

3 Plays of Our Time

and Tobago
Balgobin, Basil

  • Guyana
  • Asra
  • 1945
  • Widely attributed to

Balgobin, but not definite. See Sheik Sadeek
Balgobin, Basil

  • Guyana
  • Savitri
  • Uncertain attribution

  • Barker, J.S.
  • Trinidad
  • Bond of
  • 1966

1966
UWI Extra Mural UWI Extra Mural
Mona Jamaica St Augustine,

Caribbean Plays: One Act Play 17 Caribbean Plays: One Act Play 5

and Tobago Matrimony Trinidad Vulnerable and Tobago Doubled
Barker, J.S.
Trinidad
Barrett, Lindsay

  • Jamaica
  • After This

We Heard
Early 1970s
Ibadan Arts
Ibadan, Nigeria

  • of Fire
  • Theatre

Barrett, Lindsay Barrett, Lindsay Barrett, Lindsay
Jamaica Jamaica Jamaica

  • Black Blast 1973
  • London

Home Again Jump
1967 1967
Staged by Wole Soyinka Company At Commonwealth Arts Festival
Leicester Leicester,
Kookoo Makka Sighs of a Slave
University
England
Barrett, Lindsay
Jamaica Guyana
1970s 2010

  • Keskidee London
  • R

R
Drama, dance and music. Other plays at Mberi Theatre, University of Ibadan and Nigerian National Radio.
Dream
Bascom, Harold

  • Blank
  • Theatre

Guild
Georgetown
Stage and radio
Document
Playhous e
Bascom, Harold
Guyana Guyana Guyana Guyana Guyana Guyana
Book and Key for Stolen U.S. Cockle
1991 1996
National Cultural Center National Cultural Center National Cultural Center National Cultural Center National Cultural Center Theatre Guild
Georgetown

Bascom, Harold
George-

  • town
  • House

Bascom, Harold

  • Crisis Spell 1991
  • George-

town

Bascom, Harold
Family Budget
1989 1992 1996
Georgetown

Bascom, Harold
Home for Christmas
Georgetown

Bascom, Harold

  • Makantali
  • George-

town
Playhous e
Bascom, Harold
Guyana Guyana

Queen O’De 1995

Pack
National Cultural Center National
Georgetown

  • Bascom,
  • T.V. Alley
  • 1988
  • George-

  • Harold
  • Cultural

Center town
Bascom, Harold
Guyana Guyana
Tessa Real Girl and the Old Fool
1990 1987
National Cultural Center National Cultural Center
Georgetown

Bascom, Harold

  • The Barrel
  • George-

town

Bascom, Harold Bascom, Harold
Guyana Guyana

  • The
  • 1983

1989
Lichas Hall National Cultural Center
Linden, Guyana Georgetown
Butterline The Visa Wedding

Bascom, Harold Bascom, Harold
Guyana Guyana

  • Two
  • 1994

1993
Wrongs Witch-hunt for Harry Barker
National Cultural Center Little
Georgetown

Bastien, Elliott
Trinidad and Tobago Story

  • A Nancy
  • 1982

2009
Wood - brook, Port of Spain Cave Hill, Barbados
Carib
Beckles, Hilary (Sir)

  • Barbados
  • A
  • Errol

Monument for Moses
Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination
Beckles, Hilary (Sir)
Barbados Barbados
Sarah-Ann’s 2010 Revival of a Moral Crusade
Cave Hill, Barbados

Beckles, Hilary (Sir)

  • Sobie
  • 2007
  • Errol
  • Cave Hill,

  • Barbados
  • Barrow

Centre for Creative Imagination

  • Belgrave,
  • Trinidad
  • Night of the 1991
  • Little
  • Wood-
  • Also staged at Creative Arts

  • Valerie
  • and Tobago Wolf
  • Carib
  • brook, Port

of Spain
Centre, Jamaica, 1994

  • See Una Marson
  • Bennett,

Louise Bissoondyal, Churaumanie Bissoondyal, Churaumanie Bissoondyal, Churaumanie
Guyana Guyana Guyana
Brooklyn Raani Disco Dulahin From Ganges to Demarary From Peddos to Guanahani Hello El Dorado I is a Jumbie 1989

Mad as Hell 1989
1990 1990 1988
Guyana Guyana

  • York
  • Samuel
  • 1998
  • York

University
Toronto
Beckett’s University,

  • Theatre
  • Toronto

  • Guyana
  • Bissoondyal,

Churaumanie

  • Guyana
  • 1991

  • 1990
  • Bissoondyal,

Churaumanie Bissoondyal, Churaumanie Bissoondyal, Churaumanie Bissoondyal, Churaumanie
Guyana Guyana Guyana Guyana
Guyana Guyana Guyana
The Jaguar and the

  • 1990
  • Self-

published
Guyana?
Flute
Bissoondyal, Churaumanie Bissoondyal, Churaumanie Bissoondyal, Churaumanie
Guyana Guyana Guyana
The Migrant 1989 Error The Presence The Ritual
1988? 1997 2000
Roopnandan George-

  • Singh
  • town

New York
Guyana Detroit
Paddy Sheaves Books
Bissoondyal, Churaumanie

  • Guyana
  • The Trick

and the Raajaa For the Love of Aidana Soraya

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    PRESS RELEASE WEDNESDAY 30 OCTOBER 2019 THE ROYAL COURT THEATRE ANNOUNCES CAST FOR A KIND OF PEOPLE WRITTEN BY GURPREET KAUR BHATTI AND DIRECTED BY MICHAEL BUFFONG RUNNING IN THE JERWOOD THEATRE DOWNSTAIRS THURSDAY 5 DECEMBER 2019 – SATURDAY 18 JANUARY 2020 New artwork photo credit: Helen Murray; design credit: Lucy May Richie Campbell, Thomas Coombes, Claire-Louise Cordwell, Asif Khan, Petra Letang, Amy Morgan and Manjinder Virk have been cast in the world premiere of A Kind of People by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, directed by Michael Buffong. With design by Anna Fleischle, lighting design by Aideen Malone, sound design by Emma Laxton and fight direction by Kevin McCurdy. A Kind of People will be performed in the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs from Thursday 5 December 2019 to Saturday 18 January 2020, with press night on Wednesday 11 December 2019, 7pm. “In this country, you go as far as they let you.” Friday night on the fringes of the city and someone’s having a party. It seems like a laugh, but not everyone’s having fun. Gary and Nicky have been together since school. Gary’s going for a promotion so he can get his family out of their council flat and give Nicky everything she deserves. Anjum and Mo are used to aiming for the best. And doing whatever it takes to get it. Gary’s sister Karen is more interested in having a life than fighting for any cause. Mark is just…always there. And Victoria, Victoria wants to dance with somebody… Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti‘s new play, set amidst a contemporary British community, asks how it’s possible to get on when the odds are stacked against you.
  • Ethnic Diversity in the Making of Britain

    Ethnic Diversity in the Making of Britain

    DOCUMENT RESUME ED 429 155 UD 032 881 AUTHOR Frow, Mayerlene TITLE Roots of the Future: Ethnic Diversity in the Making of Britain. INSTITUTION Commission for Racial Equality, London (England). ISBN ISBN-1-85442-179-4 PUB DATE 1997-03-00 NOTE 138p.; For the companion "education pack", see UD 032 882. Photographs may not reproduce clearly. AVAILABLE FROM Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London E95LN, England, United Kingdom (9.95 British pounds). PUB TYPE Books (010) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC06 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Cultural Awareness; Cultural Differences; *Ethnicity; Foreign Countries; History; *Immigrants; Immigration; Instructional Materials; Multicultural Education; *Racial Differences; *Social Change; Urban Areas IDENTIFIERS *Great Britain ABSTRACT The aim of this book is to show that Britain has benefited enormously from immigration and ethnic diversity throughout history. The first part of the book, "Immigrants Past and Present," gives an account of the role played by a few of the migrant communities who came to Britain and settled before the end of World War II. The contributions they have made and the difficulties they have faced are outlined. The second part of the book, "The Contributions of Britain's Ethnic Minorities," focuses on the 50 years since the end of World War II through a selection of "snapshots" of key areas of society where immigration and ethnic diversity have enriched life in Britain. The final section, "Roots of the Future," emphasizes the importance of recognizing ethnic diversity in planning for Britain's future. A list of key dates in British history is included. (Contains 77 references.)(SLD) ******************************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * * from the original document.
  • Black and Asian Theatre in Britain

    Black and Asian Theatre in Britain

    Black and Asian Theatre in Britain ‘An important and long overdue book on the huge contribution that Black and Asian artists have made and continue to make to Britain’s theatrical landscape.’ – Meera Syal Black and Asian Theatre in Britain is an unprecedented study tracing the history of ‘the Other’ through the ages in British theatre. The diverse and often contradictory aspects of this history are expertly drawn together to provide a detailed background to the work of African, Asian, and Caribbean diasporic companies and practitioners. Colin Chambers examines early forms of blackface and other representations in the sixteenth century, through to the emergence of black and Asian actors, companies, and theatre groups in their own right. Thorough analysis uncovers how they led to a flourishing of black and Asian voices in theatre at the turn of the twenty­first century. Figures and companies studied include: • Ira Aldridge • Indian Art and Dramatic Society • Henry Francis Downing • Temba • Paul Robeson • Edric and Pearl Connor • Errol John • Tara Arts • Mustapha Matura • Yvonne Brewster • Dark and Light Theatre • Tamasha • The Keskidee Centre • Talawa. Black and Asian Theatre in Britain is an enlightening and immensely readable resource and represents a major new study of theatre history and British history as a whole. Colin Chambers was Kingston University’s first Professor of Drama. Formerly a journalist and theatre critic, he was Literary Manager of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1981 to 1997. His books include The Story of Unity Theatre (1989), the award­winning biography Peggy: The Life of Margaret Ramsay, Play Agent (1997), The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre (editor, 2002), Inside the Royal Shakespeare Company (2004) and Here We Stand (2006).

  • Cricket Calypso on the Cy Grant Website

    Cy Grant: Activist This pack introduces teachers and young people to the amazingly rich life of Cy Grant and his ground-breaking work campaigning for human rights and racial equality. Barrister, war veteran, actor, singer-songwriter, broadcaster and multi-ethnic arts co-ordinator Cy dedicated his life to the pursuit of excellence and to using his celebrity and artistic and spiritual insight for the good of others. Born Cyril Ewart Lionel Grant in Guyana of African descent, Cy joined the RAF in 1943, was shot down over the Netherlands and taken as a prisoner of war. After the war, he trained as a barrister in London but unable to make a career in law he turned to acting. Throughout the 50s and 60s, Cy Grant starred in a number of films and stage plays and sang topical folk and calypso songs, becoming the first Black man to appear regularly on British television. Using his sharp wit and political insight, he campaigned for increased opportunities for Black actors and performers as part of a broader campaign against racism. He published collections of poetry and organised multi-ethnic arts festivals to further these causes. Cy Grant’s life offers opportunities to explore the impact of colonisation and racism, Black experience in WWII and the ways in which citizenship campaigning can be developed through the arts. This pack therefore offers a cross-curricular approach to citizenship, history, English and the arts in accessible and creative ways for pupils from KS2 to KS4. Rather than offering a tightly structured scheme of work, this pack offers ideas and resources to pursue a number of themes.