Derek Walcott and West Indian Drama "Not Only a Playwright but a Company" the Trinidad Theatre Workshop 1959-1993

ISBN-10: 0198184646

ISBN-13: 9780198184645

Edition: 1997

Authors: Bruce King

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Written at Derek Walcott's suggestion, and based on interviews with the playwright and actors, this is the first detailed study of a post-colonial theatre company and the problems of creating `serious' theatre in the former colonies. The book shows how Walcott strove to create a world class theatre ensemble in the West Indies - a Trinidadian Brecht Berliner ensemble - and traces his life and career in West Indian theatre, and the history of the Trinidad Theatre Workshop. Beginning with an actors' studio and the vision of a West Indian theatre company of international standards with its own style of acting, Derek Walcott developed the most important theatre company in the West Indies. This…

Book details

List price: $37.99
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/13/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 426
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.50" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English

Writer and editor who lives in Paris. He knew Graves in the 1960s and 1970s in Mallorca. His previous works include Three Indian Poets: Ezekiel, Ramanujan and Moraes (2005), The Internationalization of English Literature 1948-2000 (2004), and a biography of V S Naipaul.



List of Illustrations



Roots 1948-1965



1948-1959 Forming a Vision



1959-1965 The Little Carib Theatre Workshop



The Great Years (West Indian Style) 1966-1976



1966 The Basement Theatre; The First Season



1967 Dream on Monkey Mountain in Canada; The First Tours



1968 Dream on Monkey Mountain; Henri Christophe; Homeless Again; The Five-Island Tour



1969 Dream in Connecticut and for NBC



1970 A New Ti-Jean; Black Power; Aquarius IV



1971 Ti-Jean and Dream in Jamaica; In A Fine Castle



1972 Ti-Jean in Central Park; Astor Johnson; Theatre Fifteen; Pieces One



1973 The Second Season; Franklin; The Charlatan



1974 An American Charlatan; A New Dream; A West Indian The Joker of Seville



1975 The Joker Revised and on Tour



1976 O Babylon!; Carifesta; TTW Dance Company; Walcott's Resignation



Separation and Reconciliation 1977-1993



1977-1983 The trinidad Theatre Workshop and Dance Company



Walcott 1977-1981 Pantomime; Remembrance; Marie Laveau



Walcott 1982-1983 The Last Carnival; A Branch of the Blue Nile



Walcott 1984-1990 Haytian Earth; Another New Dream; Another Branch; Another Franklin



1984-1993 The Trinidad Theatre Workshop; 'Let Resurrection Come!'Theatre Calendar


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