Playwrights of The Week
Playwrights of The Week
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Linisa George Playwright of the Week
Linisa George is a creative outburst of energy. Born in Guyana, Linisa migrated with her family to Antigua, the island where she calls home, at the tender age of 4. She wrote in secret from the age of 6; her poems were her escape from a world that she didn’t think she fit into. It wasn’t until 2003 while living in Toronto where she discovered the writings of the amazing Maya Angelou, that she realised that her life’s fulfillment was masked in her words. Linisa moved back to Antigua in 2005, where after many false starts she was able to push start her career in the literary and performing arts.…
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Earl Lovelace: Embrace Your Cultural Heritage or Embark on The Promising Rewards of Assimilation
Earl Lovelace is a Trinidadian novelist, journalist, playwright, and short story writer. He is noted for his contribution to the literature of Trinidad and Tobago. His descriptive fiction about West Indian culture combined with Trinidadian speech patterns intermingled with Standard English helps to underline social changes and clash between urban and rural culture in his native country. He deals with customs and beliefs of the region, such as the rejuvenating effects of carnival on the inhabitants of a slum on the outskirts of Port of Spain, popular religion in rural areas, but also, he explores the legacy of colonialism and slavery and the problems still faced by the country. His…
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Earl Lovelace Playwright of the Week
Earl Lovelace, (born July 13, 1935, Toco, Trinidad), West Indian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright celebrated for his descriptive, dramatic fiction about West Indian culture. Using Trinidadian speech patterns and standard English, he probes the paradoxes often inherent in social change as well as the clash between rural and urban cultures. Lovelace was raised by his maternal grandparents on the island of Tobago. He attended private schools there and in Port of Spain, Trinidad. After living abroad for a short time, he returned to Trinidad in 1967 and worked as a journalist, novelist, and dramatist. He also taught English at the University of the West Indies at Saint Augustine and…
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Mustapha Matura”It was the sixties”
Mustapha Matura originally borned Noel Mathura in Trinidad, he changed his name when he became a writer, and when asked he explained: “I liked the sound of it…. hey It was the sixties.”
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Second-generation Alienation in the Caribbean
In the late 1970’s Mustapha Matura co-founded the Black Theatre Co-operative along side Charlie Hanson. In 1976 later that year he produced his play about second-generation alienation in the Caribbean entitled, “Welcome Home Jacko,” Winning him praises in the theater industry. Further reading: Screenonline Playwrights.
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Mustapha Matura Playwright of the Week
Born in Trinidad Mustapha Matura is an award winning playwright. In 1962 Matura sailed to England and a year later, after working as a hospital porter, Matura, with fellow Trinidadian Horace Ov, headed for Rome, where he worked as an assistant stage manager on a production of Langston Hughes’ Shakespeare in Harlem. Matura returned to England and in 1974 the Royal Court Theatre staged his work Play Mas, which won him the Evening Standard’s ‘Most Promising Playwright’ Award and in 1978, he co-founded the Black Theatre Co-operative with Charlie Hanson. Matura’s plays have been produced at a number of theatres including The National Theatre, Tricycle Theatre, Almost Free Theatre and…