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Drama has deep roots in Jamaica. Erroll John's history traces it back to the eighteenth century. Afro-Jamaicans took to it eagerly, adapting it to their needs and traditions (the Actor Boy was an established figure in the Christmas Jonkunnu pageant by the beginning of the nineteenth century, as Isaac Belisario's gorgeous print attests). This volume, published, appropriately enough by one of Jamaica's leading actors and impresarios, is a representative volume of three serious dramas from the 1970s and 1980s, which say a great deal about the society in which they were written and first produced.

The introductions (general and to each play) by Honor Ford-Smith (herself an actress and activist) are immensely valuable as analysis and as testimonial accounts of the times. There is also a short glossary for the non-Jamaican reader.

Each of the plays has its particular strengths, although Stafford Ashani's "Masqueraders", the first chronologically, is, I would say, the most dramatically interesting. It's also the only one I saw performed.

This volume provides a depth of understanding of the Jamaica of the 1970s and 80s that no work of sociology or political science can. It is a book that should not only be on the shelves of scholars and students, but in the hands of anyone with any interest in the Caribbean, and anyone who wants to understand how Jamaica got to be the way it is.
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Fledgist | Jun 5, 2011 |
Testimonies and memoirs by members of the Sistren theatre group. Only two are in standard English (Honor Ford-Smith's and Joan French's), the rest are in Jamaican Creole.
 
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Fledgist | Jan 18, 2006 |

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