• Playwrights of The Week

    Godfrey Thomas Playwright of The Week

    Son of Thomas Godfrey (1704–1749), a Philadelphia glazier and member of Benjamin Franklin’s Junto Club, Godfrey produced some significant work in his short life. Well known in literary circles in Philadelphia, he was a close friend of the poet Nathaniel Evans and the college provost William Smith. In 1758 he left Philadelphia for Wilmington, North Carolina, to enter business.

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    Derek Walcott Poetry: A Far Cry from Africa

     A Far Cry From Africa By Derek Walcott, Nobel Literature Laureate, Saint Lucia, West Indies. A wind is ruffling the tawny pelt Of Africa, Kikuyu, quick as flies, Batten upon the bloodstreams of the veldt. Corpses are scattered through a paradise. Only the worm, colonel of carrion, cries: ’Waste no compassion on these separate dead!’ Statistics justify and scholars seize The salients of colonial policy. What is that to the white child hacked in bed? To savages, expendable as Jews?

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    The Birth of The Alfred Fagon Award

    The circumstances  concerning Alfred Fagon’s death was quite contestable since most people wasn’t quite sure based on the information posted online regarding his death, required some further explanation. On the 29th August 1986  Alfred Fagon experienced a fatal heart attack while jogging home. The police at the time proclaimed that they  were not able to locate any identifiable documents on him, as a result he was given a pauper’s funeral. When he did not turn up for a meeting at the BBC they contacted his agent Harriet Cruickshank who eventually discovered what had happened to him. Alfred Fagon’s friends and family decided to set up an award in his name, to celebrate…

  • Behind the Scenes

    MA’s Playhouse Profile of the Week in The West Indian Newspaper

    “It is seldom that one finds a young person that is talented, well-spoken and thrive on challenges. Antonevia Ocho-Coultes is the founder and Artistic Director of MA’s Playhouse, New York.  A company that is committed to bringing the cultures of the Caribbean to a wider audience in the North America.” “MA’s Playhouse aims to showcase the voice of the Caribbean, its playwrights, actors, and poets. The company has been doing really well so far. It’s first  performance ‘Nostalgia, Memories of a Tropical Past’ was a sold-out affair and the public demanded more. According to Antonevia the performance was, about people coming ad talking about growing up in the Caribbean and there…

  • Playwrights of The Week

    Alfred Fagon Playwright of the Week

    The playwright and actor Alfred Fagon was born in 1937 on the Caribbean island of Jamaica. He came to Britain, and spent some years in Bristol. Sadly, Fagon died of a heart attack aged only 49 in 1986. He was in the prime of his career, having written and acted for the theatre, radio and television. Fagon wrote the plays, 11 Josephine House, The Death of a Blackman, Four Hundred Pounds, Lonely Cowboy. One play Shakespeare Country was produced by BBC2. There is now a bronze statue to Fagon’s memory, sculpted by David G. Mutasa and commissioned by the Friends of Fagon Committee. It stands on the green at the junction…

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    Meet Mahess Bennett Cast and Characters

    MA’s Playhouse would like to introduces Mahess Bennett’s cast and characters for his books and original works of art.[more…] Sunjata:  A very relatable and interesting character. He is a former mercenary in search of inner peace, but continue to fall into deep conflict against the martial art powers of the Centra-unit. Lynch Blackmyn: An an ex marine that was hired by an elite organization to establish and manage a high power military component called the Centra-unit and use it to hunt Sunjata. Baba Ujad Heru: Is Sunjata adopted father and the Locked source’s genetic father. He was once a member of the Lambanni Tribe Nine and studied the ancient art…