The play is a tragi-comedy set in present-day Port-of Spain, Trinidad, in Act One, then in Act two, the characters take us some 40 years back to their theatre of the streets of Port of Spain. It is Jouvay morning, the dawn of Carnival Monday and Jean comes to take her friend, Dinah, to play mas (masquerade) in the city as they have done for the past forty years. This year, however, Dinah is tired and ailing and does not want to go. Jean tries desperately to rally her into making their annual pilgrimage through the streets where they play sailor mas on Carnival Tuesday. In the ensuing battle to get Dinah out of bed onto the streets of Port of Spain, both women discover things about themselves that shaped their lives. This play gives the women in Sparrow’s calypso a voice. Their stories take us on an emotional roller coaster of laughter, pain and sorrow.
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1994, Lordstreet Theatre Company, Trinidad and Tobago
2002
AuthorHouse
9780759687974
included in Testifyin' Volume II, edited by Djanet Sears
included in Testifyin' Volume II, edited by Djanet Sears
Solo Show
A short one-act one woman show. The performer is called upon to play a wide range of ages, classes, styles, voices and roles of women. As bride, wife, earth mother, executive, Virgin Mary, drunk white woman, and woman of the rolling head, the diva takes the audience on a raucous, reverential, and riveting tour of Native womanhood ending with Mother Earth herself.
Realistic
In a Catholic High School in Scarborough amidst low-income housing, difficult race relations, and poverty, a teenager struggles to find her sexual identity.
